1845 In Music

Events

* March 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
*April 21 – Albert Lortzing's opera '' Undine'' debuts in Magdeburg.
* June 4 – William Fry's opera ''Leonora'' debuts in Philadelphia.
*July – ''Pas de Quatre'' is premièred in London, bringing together four of the greatest ballerinas of the time: Lucile Grahn, Carlotta Grisi, Fanny Cerrito, and Marie Taglioni.
* July 19 – The National Anthem of Uruguay is first performed with music composed by Francisco José Debali with the collaboration of Fernando Quijano.
* October 19 – Richard Wagner's opera '' Tannhäuser'' debuts at the Dresden Hoftheater.
*Composer Henry Hugo Pierson goes to live in Germany.
*The Hutchinson Family Singers tour England with Frederick Douglass.
* Theodore Thomas arrives in the United States. The conductor would eventually become the Father of American Symphonic culture.
*Austrian pianist Leopold von Meyer (1816–1883) begins a tour of the United States.
*The saxhorn family of valved brass instruments is patented by Adolphe Sax in France.

Classical music

*Francesco Florimo – La Tarantella
*Louis Moreau Gottschalk – ''Bamboula'': A Fantasy for solo piano.
*Hans Christian Lumbye – Champagne Galop, Op. 14
*Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor
*Pedro Soler – Premier Air varié sur un thème original
* Václav Veit – Les adieux, Op. 26
*Giuseppe Verdi – Seste Romanze II
* Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Morning and Evening Service in E major

Opera

* W. H. Fry – ''Leonora''
* Albert Lortzing – ''Undine''
*Giovanni Pacini – ''Stella di Napoli'', premiered December 11 in Naples
* Temistocle Solera – ''La Hermana de Palayo''
*Giuseppe Verdi
**''Alzira''
**''Giovanna d'Arco''
*Richard Wagner – '' Tannhäuser''

Births

* January 17 – Erika Nissen, pianist (died 1903)
*February 25 – Eugène Goossens, père, conductor (d. 1906)
*March 5 – Alphonse Hasselmans, harpist and composer (d. 1912)
*March 7 – Edward Lloyd, concert tenor (d. 1927)
* March 13 – Joséphine Daram, opera singer (died 1926)
*March 14 – August Bungert, opera composer (d. 1915)
* May 12 – Gabriel Fauré, composer (d. 1924)
*May 22 – Francis Hueffer, music writer (died 1889)
* June 13 – Effie Germon, actress and singer (d. 1914)
*July 1 – Ika Peyron, composer (d. 1922)
* July 6 – Ángela Peralta, operatic soprano (d. 1883)
* August 10 – Abay Qunanbayuli, poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904)
* August 25 – King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the great patron of Richard Wagner
* November 6 – Beniamino Cesi, pianist (d. 1907)
* November 8 – Madeline Schiller, pianist (d. 1911)
*''date unknown''
**Annie Jessy Curwen, writer of children's music books (died 1932)
**Antonio Galassi, operatic baritone (d. 1904)

Deaths

* March 29 – Victor Lhérie, librettist (born 1808)
*May 11 – Carl Filtsch, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
* July 10 – Juan Paris, composer and priest (born 1805)
* July 15 – Joseph Augustine Wade, conductor and composer (b. 1796)
*September 23 – Matija Ahacel, collector of folk songs (b. 1779)
* October 7 – Isabella Colbran, soprano and first wife of Gioacchino Rossini (b. 1785)
* October 16 – Martha Llwyd, hymn-writer (b. 1766)
* October 26 – Carolina Oliphant Nairne, songwriter (born 1766)
* November 2 – Chrétien Urhan, violinist and organist (b. 1790)
* December 2 – Simon Mayr, composer (b. 1763)
* December 25 – Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, composer (b. 1759)
*''date unknown'' – Alexander Juhan, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1765)

References

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