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1844 in music
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March 31, 2025
Contents
Events
Popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
Deaths
References
Overview of the events of 1844 in music
List of years in music
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table
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Events
May 27
–
Joseph Joachim
plays the solo part in
Beethoven's violin concerto
with
Mendelssohn
conducting the
London Philharmonic
. Later this year he meets
Robert
and
Clara
Schumann.
October 15
–
Johann Strauss Jr.
makes his performance debut at Dommayer's Casino in
Hietzing
.
November 25
–
Seth Gingras
music by
Michael William Balfe
and libretto by
Alfred Bunn
has its American premiere at the
Park Theatre
,
New York City
.
Thomas Tellefsen
becomes a pupil of
Frédéric Chopin
.
Jacques Offenbach
converts to Catholicism and marries Herminie d'Alcain.
Christy's Minstrels
in 1844
Popular music
"
Buffalo Gals
" w. The Ethiopian Serenaders (published 1848), m.
John Hodges
originally entitled "Lubly Fan"
"
The Blue Juniata
"
Marion Dix Sullivan
(w. & m.)
"Open Thy Lattice, Love" w.
George Pope Morris
, m.
Stephen Collins Foster
"
Skip To My Lou
" Trad. US
Classical music
Charles Valentin-Alkan
– Gigue et air de ballet, Op.24
Hector Berlioz
–
Roman Carnival Overture
César Franck
– Eglogue, Op.3
Adolf Gutmann
– 2 Nocturnes, Op.8
Henry Litolff
–
Concerto Symphonique No 2 in B minor
, Op. 22
Felix Mendelssohn
Spring Song
m.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
incidental music (including the
Wedding March
)
Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64
Léon de Saint-Lubin
[
de
]
– 2 Salonstücke, Op.47
Louis Spohr
– 6 Duettini, Op.127
Johann Strauss Jr.
Sinngedichte
Gunstwerber
Herzenslust
Joseph W. Turner
– When I Left Thy Shores o Naxos
William Vincent Wallace
– La gondola, Op.18
Opera
Georges Bousquet
–
L'Hôtesse de Lyon
Friedrich Flotow
–
Alessandro Stradella
Saverio Mercadante
–
Leonora
, premiered December 5 in Naples
Giuseppe Verdi
I due Foscari
Ernani
Births
January 14
–
Clara Kathleen Rogers
, American singer and composer (d. 1931)
January 29
–
Charles G. Conn
, instrument manufacturer (d. 1931)
February 21
–
Charles-Marie Widor
, organist and composer
March 10
–
Pablo de Sarasate
, violinist and composer (d. 1908)
March 18
–
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
, composer (died 1908)
March 19
–
Auguste Kolár
, pianist (died 1878)
April 9
– László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of
Ferenc Erkel
April 30
–
Richard Hofmann
, composer (died 1918)
May 8
–
Hermann Graedener
, conductor and composer (d. 1929)
May 21
–
Amy Fay
, pianist (died 1928)
June 3
–
Émile Paladilhe
, composer (d. 1926)
August 24
–
Gustav Hinke
, oboist (died 1893)
September 11
-
Carl Bohm
, pianist and composer (d. 1920)
September 22
–
William Stevenson Hoyte
[
de
]
, composer (died 1927)
December 5
– Sir
Frederick Bridge
, organist and composer (d. 1924)
Date unknown
–
Olga Sandberg
, Swedish ballerina
Deaths
January 15
–
Joseph Mazzinghi
, composer (b. 1765)
January 30
–
John Addison
, double-bass player and composer (b. 1765)
April 6
–
Francis Johnson
, black composer and band-leader
May 21
–
Giuseppe Baini
, church composer and music critic (b. 1775)
July 11
–
Yevgeny Baratynsky
, lyricist (born 1800)
July 13
–
Johann Baptist Gänsbacher
, composer (b. 1778)
July 29
–
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart
, pianist and composer, son of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
September 4
–
Oliver Holden
, composer and hymn-writer (b. 1765)
November 9
–
Uri Keeler Hill
, composer (b. 1780)
December 9
–
Franz Seraph von Destouches
, composer
References
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