Overview of the events of 1843 in music
Events
Popular music
Classical music
Dionisio Aguado – Nuevo método para guitarra , Op. 6Ernesto Cavallini – Concert Fantasia on motives from 'La sonnambula'Frédéric Chopin
August Conradi – Symphony No. 1Carl Czerny – 8 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op.604Carl Filtsch
Premières pensées musicales, Op.3
Overture for orchestra in D major Niels Gade – Symphony No. 2Miska Hauser – Mes adieux a Varsovie, Op.5Johanna Kinkel – 6 Lieder, Op.18Sebastian Lee – 40 Études mélodiques et progressives, Op.31Franz Liszt
Album Leaf in E major S.166aÉlégie sur des motifs du Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse, S.168
Ländler in A-flat major, S.211
Gaudeamus igitur, S.240
Canzone Napolitana, S.248
Il m'aimait tant, S.271
Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S.274
Es war ein König in Thule, S.278
Der du von dem Himmel bist, S.279
Die tote Nachtigall, S.291
Réminiscences de 'Robert le diable', S.413 Hans Christian Lumbye
Tivolis Rutschbane Galop (dated August 11)
Tivolis Damp-Caroussellbane Galop (dated August 26)
Tivolis Gondol Galop (dated September 3) Felix Mendelssohn
Joachim Raff – 4 Galop-caprices, Op.5Robert Schumann − Paradise and the Peri Johann Strauss – Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 ("Echoes of the Rhine Loreley")Pauline Viardot – Album de Mme. Viardot-GarciaLondon debut of "Don Pasquale"
Opera
Births
January 22 – Caroline Montigny-Rémaury , pianist (died 1913)February 6 – Frederic William Henry Myers , lyricist (died 1901)February 10 – Adelina Patti , soprano (died 1919 )February 14 – Louis Diémer , pianist (died 1919)February 24 – Violet Fane , lyricist (died 1905)February 25 – Narciso Serradell , Mexican composer (died 1910)March 6 – Arthur Napoleão dos Santos , Brazilian pianist and composer, instrument dealer and music publisher (died 1925 )March 16
April 4 – Dr. Hans Richter , conductor (died 1916)April 8 – Asger Hamerik , composer (died 1923 )May 2 – Karl Michael Ziehrer , Austrian composer and bandmaster (died 1922 )May 20 – Miguel Marqués , Spanish composer and violinist (died 1918 )May 29 – Émile Pessard , French composer (died 1917 )June 13 – Adolf Neuendorff , German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist (died 1897 )June 15 – Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer (died 1907 )June 16 – David Popper , cellist and composer (died 1913 )June 19 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre , French composer (died 1917 )June 20 – Fyodor Stravinsky , opera singer and father of Igor Stravinsky (died 1902 )July 9 – Ralph E. Hudson , American hymnwriter (died 1901 )August 4 – Flor van Duyse , Belgian composer and musicologist (died 1910 )August 5 – James Scott Skinner , Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer (died 1927 )August 20 – Christina Nilsson , operatic soprano (died 1921 )August 26 – Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye (died 1922 )September 4 – Ján Levoslav Bella , Slovak composer (died 1936 )November 2 –
November 16 – George Hendrik Witte , composer (died 1929)November 28 – Émile Bernard , French composer and organist (died 1902 )December 3 – Franz Xaver Neruda , Danish cellist and composer (died 1915 )December 13 – George Stephanescu , Romanian composer (died 1925 )December 22 – Julius Bechgaard , Danish composer (died 1917 )date unknown – Eduard Holst , Danish composer
Deaths
January 7 – Franz Schoberlechner , pianist (born 1797)January 11
March 9 – Christian August Pohlenz , conductor and composer, 52April 14 – Josef Lanner , Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)May 3 – Franz Xaver Gebel , conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56May 4 – Eduard Rottmanner , organist and composer, 33May 12 – Johann Georg Lickl , composer and piano teacher, 74July – Nehemiah Shumway , composer of sacred music, 81
July 9 – Karoline Pichler , lyricist (born 1769)July 24 – Carl Julius Adolph Hugo Hoffmann , composer (born 1801)July 29 – Domenico Reina , operatic and bel canto tenor, 47August 29 – Charles Jane Ashley , cellist and secretary of the Royal Society of Musicians , 70date unknown
