Year 1847 in Music History

Events in Music

Event of Interest

Mar 14 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence

Composer Giuseppe Verdi — Composer
Giuseppe Verdi

Birthdays in Music

Feb 2 Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
Feb 7 Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
Feb 15 Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer, and teacher (Vienna Conservatory, 1875-1912), born in Frauental, Austria (d. 1927)
Feb 16 Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, German composer (Album polonaise)
Mar 19 Constantin Dimitrescu, Romanian composer (Dans ţănănesc), born in Blejoi, Romania (d. 1928)
Mar 31 Jarolslaw Zielinski, composer
Apr 1 Gavriil Musicescu, composer
Apr 9 Paolo Tosti, Italian composer, born in Ortona, Italy (d. 1916)
Apr 9 Francis William Davenport, English composer, born in Wilderslowe, Derby (d. 1925)
Apr 10 Charles Swinnerton Heap, English composer, born in Birmingham, England (d. 1900)
May 13 Johannes Haarklou, composer
May 25 Alphonse Goovaerts, Belgian composer and musicologist (Histoire et Bibliographie de la Typographie Musicale dans les Pays-Bas), born in Antwerp, Belgian (d. 1922)
Jun 24 Gaston Salvayre, French composer, born in Toulouse, France (d. 1916)
Jun 28 Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, Icelandic composer (Lofsöngur - National Anthem of Iceland), born in Seltjarnarnes, Iceland (d. 1927)
Jul 5 Agnes Zimmermann, German composer, born in Cologne, Germany (d. 1925)
Jul 31 Ignatio Cervantes, Cuban pianist and composer (Danzas Cubanas), born in Havana (d. 1905)
Aug 1 Guido Papini, Italian violinist and composer, born in Camaiore, Italy (d. 1912)
Aug 22 Alexander Campbell Mackenzie, Scottish composer, born in Edinburgh (d. 1935)
Sep 13 Charles Dupee Blake, American composer, born in Walpole, Massachusetts (d. 1903)
Sep 16 Albert Ross Parsons, American composer, born in Sandusky, Ohio (d. 1933)
Oct 10 Gheorghe Dima, Romanian composer, born in Șcheii Brașovului, Romania (d. 1925)
Oct 21 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian playwright and librettist (Puccini's La Bohème; Madama Butterfly, and Tosca), born in Colleretto Parella, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy) (d. 1906)
Nov 1 Emma Albani, Canadian operatic soprano, born in Chambly, United Province of Canada (d. 1930)
Nov 30 August Klughardt, German composer, born in Köthen, Germany (d. 1902)
Dec 1 Agathe Grondahl, composer
Dec 16 Augusta Holmes, Irish-French pianist and composer, born in Paris, France (d. 1903)

Deaths in Music

Jan 6 Tyagaraja, Composer of Indian classical Carnatic music, dies at 79
Jan 22 Georges-Julien Sieber, French music publisher and composer, dies at 71
Mar 28 Mariano Rodríguez de Ledesma, Spanish composer, dies at 67
Apr 23 Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
May 14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer, dies at 41
May 16 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
Jul 19 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75
Oct 14 William Michael Rooke, composer, dies at 53

Felix Mendelssohn

Nov 4 (Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn [Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), dies at 38, after a series of strokes

Dec 29 William Crotch, English composer, dies at 72