1829 in music

1829 in music

Events

*Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bach's "St Matthew Passion" at Berlin

Popular music

Classical music

*Norbert Burgmüller - "Piano Concerto in F sharp"
*Fanny Hensel - "Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major"

Opera

*Michael William Balfe - "I rivali di se stessi"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "Guillaume Tell" ("William Tell") first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

*January 24 - William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
*March 6 - Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
*May 8 - Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
*June 9 - Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
*August 28 - Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
*November 28 - Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)

Deaths

*January 25 - William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
*February 16 - François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
*February 18 - Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
*October 29 - Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
*December 14 - Luigi Marchesi, "castrato" singer (b. 1754)


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