Year 1833 in Music History

Events in Music

Jan 10 Felix Mendelssohn's cantata "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" premieres in Berlin

Feb 22 Josef Foerster, Czech composer and music teacher, born in Osenice, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1907)
Mar 20 Henry Southwick Perkins, composer
Apr 17 Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1900)

May 7 Johannes Brahms, German composer and conductor (Hung Dances), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1897)

May 9 Boleslaw Dembinski, Polish organist and composer, born in Poznań (d. 1914)
Jun 7 Alexander Ritter, German composer, born in Narva, Estonia (d. 1896)
Jun 27 Władysław Zaremba, Ukrainian composer, born in Dunajowce, Ukraine (d. 1902)
Jul 22 Benjamin Hanby, American composer (Jolly Old Saint Nicholas"), born in Rushville, Ohio (d. 1867)
Sep 21 Josef Richard Rozkošný, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1913)
Oct 18 Johannes Habert, composer
Nov 12 Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russian composer (Robert LeDiable)

Oct 3 Composer Hector Berlioz (29) marries actress Harriet Smithson (30)

Jan 7 Ramón Cuéllar y Altarriba, Spanish composer, dies at 55
Jan 10 António da Silva Leite, Portuguese composer, dies at 73
Jan 19 (Louis Joseph) Ferdinand Hérold, French pianist, violinist, and composer of over twenty operas, dies from tuberculosis at 41
Feb 18 Georg Johann Schinn, German composer, dies at 64
Feb 18 Ignac Ruzitska, Austrian composer, dies at 55
Mar 11 Fridolin Weber, composer, dies at 71
Apr 7 Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian-Polish composer, dies at 57
May 14 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer, dies at 88
May 28 Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
May 29 William Marshall, Scottish fiddle composer (strathspeys The Marchioness of Huntly), dies at 84
May 30 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, dies at 27
Jun 20 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
Jun 23 Nikolaus Paul Zmeskall, composer, dies at 73
Oct 27 Ferdinand Franzl, composer, dies at 66
Nov 8 Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
Dec 10 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer, dies at 79
Dec 16 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, dies at 55