1842 in music

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Events

• May 31 – Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a civil class of the order Pour le Mérite for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioachino Rossini.
• October 20 – Hans von Bülow attends the first performance of Wagner's Rienzi in Dresden.
• December 7 – The New York Philharmonic orchestra performs its first concert. ^[1]
• Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe. Pierre Zimmerman, professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory, refuses to hear him because "America is a country of Steam Engines".
• Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Ödenburg Theatre.
• Camille Saint-Saëns begins studying piano under Camille-Marie Stamaty.

Popular music

• Frederick Ellard – Sydney Corporation Quadrilles ^[2]
• Antoine Gérin-Lajoie – "Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian")

Classical music

• Adolphe Adam – La jolie fille de Gand, Ballet premiered June 22 in Paris
• Jacob Arcadelt – Ave Maria
• Hector Berlioz
  • Rêverie et Caprice, H 88, premiered February 1 in Paris
  • La mort d'Ophélie, H 92, composition begun
• Franz Berwald
  • Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Sinfonie sérieuse"
  • Symphony No. 2 in D "Sinfonie capricieuse"
  • Ernste und heitere Grillen, for orchestra
  • Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen, for orchestra
  • Festival of the Bayadères
• Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – Messe du jour de Noel, Op.11
• Anton Bruckner – Windhaager Messe, WAB 25
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Mazurkas, Op.50
  • Ballade No. 4, Op.52
  • Polonaise for Piano in A-flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"
  • Waltzes, Op.70, No. 2
• Carl Czerny – Nocturne, Op.647
• Friedrich Dotzauer – 24 Études journalières, Op.155
• Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
  • Boléro, Op.16
  • Polonaise, Op.17
  • Feuillet d'album
• August Freyer – Concert-Fantasie, Op.1
• Niels Gade
  • 3 Nordiske Tonebilleder, Op.4
  • Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 6
• Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.34
• Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, Op.24
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Overture No.10, Op.142
• Joseph Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
• Franz Liszt – Ave Maria I, S.20
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Venetianisches Gondellied, MWV K 114 (Op. 57, No. 5)
  • Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream (including the Wedding March)
  • Die Stille, MWV K 112 (Op. 99, No. 6)
  • Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
• Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater
• Robert Schumann
  • Three String Quartets in A minor, F and A, Op. 41
  • Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
  • Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47
• Louis Spohr – Piano Sonata Op. 125
• Vaclav Veit – Concert-Ouverture, Op.17
• Henri Vieuxtemps – Le Papillon

Opera

• Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le duc d'Olonne, premiered February 4 in Paris
• Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix , May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna
• Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila , November 27^{(Old Style)} at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg
• Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro, Op.71
• Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz , December 31 at Stadttheater, Leipzig
• Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco , March 9 at La Scala, Milan
• Richard Wagner – Rienzi , October 20 at Hofoper, Dresden

Musical theatre

• March 10 – Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, with music by Adolf Müller, opens at the Theater an der Wien. ^[3]

Births

• February 24 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (died 1918)
• February 25 – Karl May, lyricist (died 1912)
• March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (died 1912)
• March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé, lyricist (died 1898)
• March 22 – Carl Rosa, musical impresario (died 1889)
• April 14 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (died 1919)
• April 29 – Carl Millöcker, composer (died 1899)
• May 3 – Sophus Hagen, composer (died 1929)
• May 12 – Jules Massenet, opera composer (died 1912)
• May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, composer (died 1900)
• May 14 – Alphons Czibulka, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1894)
• May 17 – Henry Cotter Nixon, pianist (died 1907)
• May 23 – Maria Konopnicka, lyricist (died 1910)
• June 4 – Samuel Brenton Whitney, organist (died 1914)
• June 7 – Henri Gobbi, composer (died 1920)
• June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (died 1866)
• June 19 – Carl Zeller, Austrian composer (died 1898)
• June 29 – Josef Labor, composer (died 1924)
• July 4 – Gyula Erkel  [ hu ], Hungarian composer (died 1909), son of Ferenc Erkel
• July 16 – Eugen Maria Albrecht, composer (died 1894)
• July 29 – Charles Collette, actor and composer (died 1924)
• September 12 – Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (died 1921)
• September 13 – Ödön Mihalovich, composer (died 1929)
• September 24 – Emma Livry, ballerina (died 1863)
• October 13 – Antonio Pasculli, oboist and composer (died 1924)
• October 26 – Hugo Alpen, composer (died 1917)
• November 8 – Eugen Gura, operatic baritone (died 1906)
• November 24
  • Peter Jerndorff, Danish opera singer and stage actor (died 1926)
  • Pavel Viskovatov, lyricist (died 1905)
• December 6 – Pavel Viskovatov, librettist (died 1905)
• date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar, composer of Carnatic music (died 1909)

Deaths

• January 7 – Joseph Czerny, composer (born 1785)
• January 9 – Alexandre Duval, librettist and actor (born 1767)
• January 19 – Heinrich Anton Hoffmann, violinist (born 1770)
• March 6 – Constanze Mozart, widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1762) ^[4]
• March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor (born 1780)
• March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, composer (born 1760) ^[5]
• April 6 – Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher (born 1775)
• April 14 – Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, librettist (born 1763)
• April 26 – Louis Bocquillon, composer (born 1781)
• May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor (born 1769)
• June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (born 1776)
• June 18 – Tobias Haslinger, composer (born 1787)
• June 20 – Michael Umlauf, violinist and composer (born 1781)
• July 23 – Timothy Swan, hat-maker and composer (born 1758)
• August 21 – Johann Friedrich Leopold Duncker, lyricist (born 1768)
• August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist (born 1762)
• September 15 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (born 1771) ^[6]
• October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (born 1774)
• November 3 – Franz Clement, violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (born 1780)
• November 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (born 1767) ^[7]
• December 16 – Friedrich Rochlitz, musicologist (born 1769)
• December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini, composer (born 1762)
• December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766)

References

1. "Performance History: 7 December 1842". New York Philharmonic . Retrieved 7 December 2021.
2. "The Sydney Corporation quadrilles [music]".
3. Branscombe, Peter (1992), 'Nestroy, Johann Nepomuk' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN   0-333-73432-7
4. Christoph Wolff; Mary Whittal (25 June 1998). Mozart's Requiem: Historical and Analytical Studies, Documents, Score. University of California Press. p. 14. ISBN   978-0-520-21389-0.
5. Edward Bellasis (1874). Cherubini: Memorials Illustrative of His Life. Burns and Oates. p. 372. ISBN   9780598919106.
6. Allgemeine deutsche real-encyklopädie für die gebildeten stände: Conversations-lexikon (in German). W. Radde. 1845. p. 747.
7. De Palma, Fedele (2010). "Luigi Giuseppe Capotorti". Operisti di Puglia dall'Ottocento ai giorni nostri, pp. 47–52. Edizioni del Sud. ISBN   9788875531041 (in Italian). Page 47.