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This article is about music-related events in 1828 .

Events

January 14 & December 30 – Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise is published, the second part posthumously.
February 29 – Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici ("Masaniello"), the earliest French grand opera, premières at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opéra.
March 9 – The Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire of Paris gives its first concert, including music by Beethoven, Rossini, Meifreid, Rode and Cherubini.
March 26 – Franz Schubert gives his only public concert of his own works^[1] eight months before his death aged 31 in Vienna of typhoid fever or symptoms related to syphilis.
August – Genoa-born violinist Niccolò Paganini begins his European tour in Vienna. It establishes his international reputation as the greatest violinist of his time and inspires other instrumentalists to mimic his innovations on the piano (Chopin, Liszt).
November 3 – Composer Ferdinand Hérold is awarded the Légion d'honneur.
December 27 – Soprano Elisabetta Manfredini-Guarmani gives her last known performance, at Rimini.^[2] She disappears from the historical record after this.
Flugelhorn introduced by Heinrich Stölzel in Berlin.^[3]

Popular music

"Oh! No! We Never Mention Her" by Thomas Haynes Bayly & E. Riley
"Tyrolese Evening Hymn" by Felicia Hemans & Augusta Browne
"Jump Jim Crow" by Thomas D. Rice

Classical music

Hector Berlioz – Waverly Overture, Op. 1
Frédéric Chopin
Johannes Frederik Fröhlich – Ouverture til Freias Alter
Mikhail Glinka – Mazurka in G major
Ferdinand Hérold – La fille mal gardée (ballet)
Franz Schubert
Louis Spohr – Symphony No. 3, Op. 78

Opera

Daniel Auber – La muette de Portici
Vincenzo Bellini – Bianca e Fernando
Gaetano Donizetti – L'esule di Roma
Heinrich Marschner – Der Vampyr
Gioacchino Rossini – Le comte Ory (Count Ory) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson.
Peter Josef von Lindpaintner – Der Vampyr
Saverio Mercadante – Adriano in Siria (Ita) and Gabriella di Vergy (Ita)

Publications

Louis-Francois Dauprat – Du cor à pistons
Edward Holmes – A Ramble Among the Musicians of Germany
Johann Bernard Logier – System der Musikwissenschaft (abridged version, full version published one year earlier)
Gustav Adolph Wettengel – Vollständiges Lehrbuch der Geigen- und Bogenmacherkunst
Carl Friedrich Whistling – Handbuch der musikalischen Literatur

Births

January 6 – Robert Keller, music editor (d. 1891)
January 17 – Ede Reményi, violinist (d. 1898)
January 20 – Johanna Sundberg, ballerina (d. 1910)
February 8 – Antonio Cagnoni, composer (d. 1896)
14 February – Julius Reisinger, choreographer (d. 1892)
April 5 – Pietro Platania, composer and music teacher (d. 1907)
April 15 – Robert Sands, first conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
April 24 – Charles Nuitter, librettist (died 1899)
April 26 – Francesco Graziani (baritone), operatic baritone (d. 1901)
June 2 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer (d. 1916)
June 24 – Adolphe Blanc, chamber music composer (d. 1885)
July 15 – Raffaele Fiorini, violin maker (d. 1898)
July 31 – François-Auguste Gevaert, musicologist and composer (d. 1908)
August 5 – Giovanni Rossi, composer, conductor, organist, and conservatory director (died 1886)^[4]
August 7 – Michał Zawadzki, composer (died 1887)
October 3 – Woldemar Bargiel, composer (d. 1897)
October 19 – Adolfo Fumagalli, pianist (d. 1856)
November 3 – Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr., violinist and conductor (d. 1893)
November 10 – Hector-Jonathan Crémieux, librettist (d. 1892)
November 23 – Clemente Aguirre, composer and music teacher (d. 1900)
December 23 – Mathilde Wesendonck, poet and collaborator of Richard Wagner (d. 1902)

Deaths

January 12 – Peter Mandrup Lem, violinist (b. 1758)
March 26 – Elisabeth Olin, operatic soprano (b. 1740)
April 25 – François Benoît Hoffmann, opera librettist (b. 1760)
July 9 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German opera singer and actress (b.1789)
July 22 or July 28 – Antonio Calegari, composer (b. 1757)
September 25 – Charlotta Seuerling, singer, harpsichordist, composer and poet (b. c. 1783)
October 31 – John Marsh, composer (b. 1752)
November 19 – Franz Schubert, composer (b. 1797)
December 30 – Waldemar Thrane, composer (b. 1790)
date unknown – Vincenzo dal Prato, castrato singer (b. 1756)

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Adolphe Nourrit was a French operatic tenor, librettist, and composer. One of the most esteemed opera singers of the 1820s and 1830s, he was particularly associated with the works of Gioachino Rossini and Giacomo Meyerbeer.

Alexis Dupont was a French operatic tenor who sang at the Opéra-Comique from 1821 to 1823 and the Paris Opera from 1826 to 1841. There he created a number of roles in operas by Rossini, Auber, Halévy and Meyerbeer. He had a significant association with Berlioz, creating the tenor solo in Roméo et Juliette in 1839; and he sang in the Mozart Requiem at Chopin's funeral in 1849.

Henri Valentino was a French conductor and violinist. From 1824 to 1832, he was co-conductor of the Paris Opera, where he prepared and conducted the premieres of the first two grand operas, Auber's La muette de Portici and Rossini's Guillaume Tell. From 1832 to 1836, he was First Conductor of the Opéra-Comique, and from 1837 to 1841, conductor of classical music at the Concerts Valentino in a hall on the rue Saint-Honoré in Paris.

References

↑ Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. pp. 265-6. ISBN 0-520-21957-0.
↑ Teatri, arti e letteratura (29 January 1829) p. 202. Original Italian: "La signora Elisa Manfredini egregia cantante, ne sostiene con plauso distinto la parte di prima donna , ed il suo canto finito, ed un nobil portamento la rendono degna degl' encomi che riceve unanimi."
↑ Baines, Anthony (January 1993). Brass Instruments: Their History and Development. Courier Corporation. p. 230. ISBN 9780486275741.
↑ Nicolas Slonimsky; Laura Kuhn; Dennis McIntire (2001). "Rossi, Giovanni (Gaetano)". Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians .

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[1] Newbould, Brian (1999). Schubert: The Music and the Man. University of California Press. pp. 265-6. ISBN 0-520-21957-0.

[2] Teatri, arti e letteratura (29 January 1829) p. 202. Original Italian: "La signora Elisa Manfredini egregia cantante, ne sostiene con plauso distinto la parte di prima donna , ed il suo canto finito, ed un nobil portamento la rendono degna degl' encomi che riceve unanimi."

[3] Baines, Anthony (January 1993). Brass Instruments: Their History and Development. Courier Corporation. p. 230. ISBN 9780486275741.

[4] Nicolas Slonimsky; Laura Kuhn; Dennis McIntire (2001). "Rossi, Giovanni (Gaetano)". Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians .

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