1847 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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.[1]
  • September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.[2]

Publications

  • Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his 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
    • Cello Sonata
  • 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 Buontempone
  • 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 (born 1767)[3]
  • April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
  • May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)[4]
  • June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784)
  • June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770)
  • July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)[5]
  • September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
  • September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)[6]
  • November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)[7]
  • November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)[8]
  • date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)[9]

References

  1. ↑ Charles Osborne (2004). The Opera Lover's Companion. Yale University Press. p. 484. ISBN 9780300123739.
  2. ↑ Walker, Alan (1973). The Great Composers: Liszt. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co. p. 55. ISBN 9780690496994. OL 21091256M.
  3. ↑ V. K. Subramanian (1996). Sacred Songs of India. Abhinav Publications. p. 295.
  4. ↑ Todd, R. Larry (2003). Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 557. ISBN 978-0-19-511043-2.
  5. ↑ Jan ten Bokum: "Wilms, Johann Wilhelm", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), ISBN 1-56159-239-0
  6. ↑ George Wesley Harris (1943). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Dodd, Mead. p. 30.
  7. ↑ Mercer-Taylor, Peter (2000). The Life of Mendelssohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 198–203. ISBN 978-0-521-63972-9.
  8. ↑ Henry James Garland (1957). Henry Francis Lyte and the Story of "Abide with Me". Torch Publishing Company. p. 52.
  9. ↑ The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan. 1938. p. 1200.
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