Year 1838 in Music History

Events in Music

Sep 10 Hector Berlioz's opera "Benvenuto Cellini" premieres in Paris

Jan 6 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1920)
Feb 26 Wendelin Weißheimer, German composer and conductor, born in Osthofen (d. 1910)
Mar 2 David Duffle Wood, composer
Mar 4 Paul Lacôme, French composer, born in Le Houga, Gascony (d. 1920)
Mar 15 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
Apr 11 Joseph Leopold Röckel, German composer, born in London (d. 1908)
Apr 16 Karel Bendl, Czech composer, born in Prague (d. 1897)
May 6 Alfred Pease, American composer, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1882)
Jul 23 Édouard Colonne, French composer and violinist, born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1910)
Aug 12 Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal
Oct 22 Carl Fuchs, German composer and musician, born in Potsdam (d. 1922)

Oct 25 Georges Bizet, French composer (Carmen), born in Paris (d. 1875)

Nov 22 José Augusto Ferreira Veiga, Viscount of Arneiro, Portuguese composer, born in Portuguese Macau (d. 1903)
Dec 4 Melesio Morales, Mexican composer, born in Mexico City (d. 1908)
Dec 11 Whitney Eugene Thayer, American composer, born in Mendon, Massachusetts (d. 1889)
Dec 13 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, French composer, born in Chartres, France (d. 1873)
Dec 17 Berthold Tours, Dutch-English composer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1897)

Jan 13 Ferdinand Ries, German composer dies at 53
Jan 20 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, French cellist and composer, dies at 64
Feb 5 Philippe Libon, composer, dies at 62
Feb 22 Friedrich Johann Eck, German violinist and composer (Concertos pour violon), dies at 70
Mar 24 Thomas Attwood, English organist and composer, dies at 72
May 28 Thomas Busby, English composer, dies at 82
Jul 19 Frédéric-Nicolas Duvernoy, French horn player and composer, dies at 72
Jul 28 Bernhard Henrik Crusell, Swedish-Finnish composer, dies at 62
Jul 29 Jonathan Huntington, composer, dies at 66
Sep 7 Joseph Panny, Austrian violinist and composer, dies at 43
Sep 8 Pietro Rovelli, composer, dies at 45
Oct 4 Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, German composer, dies at 79
Nov 24 Karl Ludwig Hellwig, German composer, dies at 65