1827 In Music

This article is about music-related events in 1827.

Events

*March 29 – The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.
*April 5 – Pope Leo XII honours Nicolo Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur.
*April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
*''date unknown''
**Franz Liszt moves to Paris after the death of his father. He will live there for the next five years. He plays a concert in London that was attended by Ignaz Moscheles.
**François Dauverné becomes one of the first musicians to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.
**Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
**The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.
**Soprano Laure-Cinthie Montalant marries the tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau.
**The Zagreb Music Association is founded; one of its earliest members is Ivan Padovec.

Popular music

* "I'd Be a Butterfly" w.m. Thomas Haynes Bayly

Classical music

*Dionisio Aguado – 4 Rondos brillants, Op. 2
*Hector Berlioz – ''La mort d’Orphée'' (cantata)
*Frederic Chopin – Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" Op. 2
*Carl Czerny
**3 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op. 104
**Piano Sonata Nos.6–9, Opp. 124, 143–145
**Grande Serenade concertante, Op.126
**100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139
**Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op. 153
*Mauro Giuliani – 6 Airs Irlandois nationales variées (for guitar), Op. 125
*Fanny Hensel – 6 Lieder, Op.9, Nos. 1, "Die Ersehnte" and 5 "Der Maiabend"
*Ferdinand Hiller
**"Le sénateur" (dated June 22)
**"Wandrers Nachtlied"
* Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Symphony No.1, Op. 7
*Friedrich Kuhlau
**Flute Sonata, Op. 85
**4 Sonatinas, Op. 88
*Kaspar Kummer – Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
*Franz Liszt – Scherzo in G minor, S.153
*Felix Mendelssohn
**7 Charakterstücke, Op.7
** String Quartet No.2, Op.13
**The Last Rose of Summer, Op.15
**Piano Sonata No.3, Op.106 (dated May 31)
**Tu es Petrus, Op.111
**Christe, du Lamm Gottes, MWV 5
*Ferdinand Ries
**Polonaise No.4, Op.140
**3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 2 in G major
*Pierre Rode – Violin Concerto No.11 in D major, Op. 23
*Franz Schubert
**''Winterreise'' (song cycle)
** Piano Trio No. 1
** Piano Trio No. 2
**Im Abendrot, D.799
** Impromptus, D.899 and D.935
**3 Gesänge, D.902
**Zur guten Nacht, D.903
**Alinde, D.904
**An die Laute, D.905
**Variations on a Theme from Herold's 'Marie', D. 908
**Phantasie for violin and piano in C major, D.934
**12 Valses nobles, D. 969
* Ignaz Seyfried – ''Libera me Domine'', continuation of Mozart's Requiem
*Louis Spohr
**Violin Concerto No.11, Op. 70
**Double String Quartet No.2, Op.77
*Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse – ''Et Eventyr i Rosenborg Have'' (Singspiel)

Opera

*Vincenzo Bellini – ''Il Pirata''
*Louise Bertin – '' Le loup-garou''
*Michele Carafa – ''Les Deux Figaro''
*Felix Mendelssohn – ''Die Hochzeit des Camacho'', Op.10 (premiered April 29 in Berlin)
*Giovanni Pacini – ''Margherita regina d'Inghilterra''
*Louis Spohr – ''Pietro von Abano'', premiered Oct. 13 in Kassel.

Births

*January 14 – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (d. 1903)
*January 16 (or 17) – Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
*February 2 – Ludwig Eichrodt, lyricist (died 1892)
*February 9 – Auguste Dupont, composer (died 1890)
*February 12 – Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, composer (died 1908)
*February 14 – José Costa, composer (died 1881)
*February 18 – Marc Burty, music teacher and composer (died 1903)
*March 5
**Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
** Emile Jonas, composer (died 1905)
*March 26 – Emanuel Kania, composer (died 1887)
*April 15 – Julius Tausch, composer (died 1895)
*April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
*May 11 – Septimus Winner, composer (died 1902)
*August 20 (or 22) – Josef Strauss, waltz composer (d. 1870)
*August 22 – Edouard Silas, composer (died 1909)
*August 23 – Simon Waley, composer (died 1875)
*September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
*September 13 – Catherine Winkworth, hymnist (died 1878)
*October 6 – Karl Riedel, conductor (died 1888)
*November 7 – Theodor Bernhard Sick, composer (died 1893)
*November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
*November 20 – Edmond Dédé, composer (died 1903)
*November 26 – Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (d. 1872)
*December 24 – Lisa Cristiani, cellist (died 1853)
*December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)
*''date unknown''
** Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
** George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher (d. 1893)

Deaths

*January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
*January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
*February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
*February 11 – José Lidon, composer and musician (born 1748)
*February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
*March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
*March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
*April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
*May 9 – Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, composer (born 1780)
*June 4 – Stephan von Breuning, librettist (born 1774)
*July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
*July 25 – Gottfried Christoph Härtel, music publisher (born 1763)
*August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
*August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
*August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
*August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
*September 8 – Reginald Spofforth, composer (b. 1769)
*September 30 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (born 1794)
*November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
*November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's ''Requiem'' (b. 1763)
*November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
*''date unknown''
**James Hook, composer (b. 1746)
**Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)

References

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