1847 In Music

Events

* February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside.
*March 3 – ''I Lombardi alla prima crociata'' is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States.
* March 14 – Verdi's '' Macbeth'' is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
* Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.
*Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.

Popular music

*"Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam
*"Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz
*"Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz
*"Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner

Classical music

*Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding
*Frederic Chopin
** Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute)
** Waltz Op. 64. No. 2
* August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2
* Franz Liszt
**'' Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2''
**'' Glanes de Woronince''
** Most of the ''Harmonies poétiques et religieuses''
* Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6
*Jacques Offenbach – ''Concerto Militaire'' for cello and orchestra
* Robert Schumann
** Symphony No. 2
** Piano Trio No. 1
* Henryk Wieniawski – ''Grand Caprice Fantastique'' Op. 1

Opera

*Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – ''Il Buontemponi''
* Giovanni Bottesini – ''Cristoforo Colombo''
*Friedrich von Flotow – ''Martha''
* Ivar Hallstrom – ''Hvita frun på Drottningholm'' (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
*Karel Miry – ''Brigitta'' (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
* Giuseppe Verdi – '' Macbeth''
*William Vincent Wallace – ''Matilda of Hungary''

Births

*January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
* February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
*March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
*March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
* June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
*July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
*July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
*October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
*November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
*November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
*December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
*December 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912)
*December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
*December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931)
*''date unknown'' – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)

Deaths

* January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (b. 1767)
* April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (b. 1783)
*May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (b. 1805; stroke)
*June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (b. 1784)
*June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (b. 1770)
*July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (b. 1772)
*September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (b. 1769)
*September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (b. 1814)
*November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1809)
*November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)
*''date unknown'' – Cyrill Demian, piano and organ maker (b. 1772)
*''date unknown'' – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)

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