Events in Music
Event of Interest
Mar 11 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin
Felix Mendelssohn
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Aug 3 Opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) Gioachino Rossini's last and greatest opera premieres in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 24 William Mason, composer
- Mar 20 Charles Albert White, composer
- May 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, born in New Orleans (d. 1869)
- May 9 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1888)
- May 12 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (d. 1896)
- Jun 3 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
- Jun 9 Gaetano Braga, composer
- Jun 13 Antonio Zamara, Austrian harpist and composer, born in Milan (d. 1901)
- Jul 4 Hermann Kotzschmar, German-American composer, born in Finsterwalde, Germany (d. 1909)
- Aug 5 Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
- Aug 15 Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1909)
- Aug 21 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1907)
- Aug 28 Albert Dietrich, German composer and conductor, born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1908)
- Nov 14 Giulio Roberti, composer
- Nov 16 Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
- Nov 28 Anton Rubinstein, Vykhvatinetz Podolia, composer (Omitri Doskoy) [NS]
- Dec 24 Benjamin Ipavec, Slovene Romantic composer, born in Šentjur, Slovenia (d. 1909)
- Dec 24 José Rogel, Spanish composer, born in Orihuela, Spain (d. 1901)
- Dec 25 Patrick S Gilmore, composer
Deaths in Music
- Jan 3 Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55
- Jan 25 William Shield, composer, dies at 80
- Feb 16 Francois-Joseph Gossec, Belg/Fr composer (Messe of Morts), dies at 95
- Feb 18 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77
- May 8 Mauro Giuliani, Italian musician and composer, dies at 47
- May 18 Bernardo Bittoni, Italian composer, dies at 72
- Jun 27 Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, dies at 64
- Jul 23 Wojciech Boguslawski, Polish composer, dies at 72
- Oct 29 Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist and Wolfgang's sister, dies at 78
- Nov 9 Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
- Dec 7 Johann Christoph Kienlen, German composer, dies at 45
- Dec 14 Luigi Marchesi, composer, dies at 74
- Dec 17 Bernard Jumentier, composer, dies at 80