1834 In Music

This article is about music-related events in 1834.

Events

* September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
* October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
* Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
*Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.

Publications

*Pierre Baillot – ''L'art du violon''
* J.C. Maugin – Manuel du Luthier

Popular music

* "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)

Classical music

*Charles-Valentin Alkan – Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
*William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor
*Hector Berlioz – ''Harold in Italy''
*Ole Bull
**Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
**Quartet for Solo Violin
* Norbert Burgmuller
**''Rhapsodie'' in B minor for Piano, Op.13
**Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
*Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
*Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
* Felicien David
**Fantasia harabi
**Égyptienne
**Vieux Caire
*Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
**Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
**Thème allemand varié, Op.9
**Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
*Friedrich Kalkbrenner
**Les Soupirs, Op.121
**Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
* Karol Kurpinski – Polonaise in C major
*Franz Paul Lachner
**Waldklänge, Op.28
**Symphony No.3, Op.41
* Luigi Legnani – Grande Fantasia, Op.61
*Franz Liszt – Apparations
*Giacomo Meyerbeer
**Le moine
**Rachel à Nephtali
* James Nares – The souls of the righteous
*George Onslow
**3 String Quartets, Op.46
**String Quartet No.22, Op.47
* Ludwig Schunke
**Caprice No.1, Op.9
**Rondeau brillant, Op.11
*František Škroup – Kde domov můj?
*Louis Spohr – Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
* Mikhail Vysotsky – Fuga of Bach

Opera

*Adolphe Adam – '' Le Chalet'', premiered September 25 in Paris
*Daniel Auber – ''Lestocq'', premiered May 24 in Paris
*John Barnett – ''The Mountain Sylph''
*Gaetano Donizetti – ''Gemma di Vergy'', premiered December 26 in Milan
* Konradin Kreutzer – ''Das Nachtlager in Granada''
*Saverio Mercadante
**''Emma d'Antiochia,'' premiered March 8 in Venice
**''Uggiero il danese''

Births

*January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
*January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
*January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
*January 23 – Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
*January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
*February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
*March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
*March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
*March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
*April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
*April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
*May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
*June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
*June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
*June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
*August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
*August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
*August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
*August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
*October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
*October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
*October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
*October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
*November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
*November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
*November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
*November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
*December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
*December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
*''date unknown''
**David Braham, composer (died 1905)
**Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)

Deaths

*January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
*February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
*April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
*June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
*September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
*August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
*October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
*December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)
*''date unknown''
**Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
**August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
**Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)

References

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