Events in Music
- Mar 11 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin
- Aug 3 Gioachino Rossini's last and greatest opera "Guillaume Tell" (William Tell) premieres at Salle Le Peletier in Paris
Musicians Born in 1829
- Jan 24 William Mason, American pianist, pedagogue and composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1908)
- Mar 20 Charles Albert White, composer
- May 8 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1869)
- May 9 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist and composer, born in Sinalunga, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1888)
- May 12 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (Isabella d'Aspeno), born in Zakynthos (d. 1896)
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Musicians Who Died in 1829
- Jan 3 Robert Archibald Smith, Scottish composer, dies at 48
- Jan 12 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer, dies at 55
- Jan 25 William Shield, composer, dies at 80
- Feb 16 François-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pêcheurs; Mirza), dies at 95
- Feb 18 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer, dies at 77
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