1831 in music
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- Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
arrives in Paris. - The first operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, Deux mots by Nicolas DalayracNicolas DalayracNicolas-Marie d'Alayrac, known as Nicolas Dalayrac , was a French composer, best known for his opéras-comiques.- Biography :...
in performed in OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
directed by August Schrumpf with Augusta SmithAugusta SmithAugusta Smith, married surname Schrumpf was a Norwegian dramatic actress and operatic soprano...
in the main part. Emilie da FonsecaEmilie da FonsecaEmilie da Fonseca Muller, married surname Bratz was a Norwegian stage actor and opera singer. She belonged to the pioneer group of artists in the first national theatre in Norway. She was also among the most noted artists of her time in Norway.- Biography :Emilie da Fonseca was the daughter of...
is employed at Christiania TheatreChristiania TheatreChristiania Theatre, or Kristiania Theatre, was Norway's finest stage for the spoken drama between October 4, 1836 - September 1, 1899. It was located at Bankplassen by the Akershus Fortress in central Christiania, in Norway...
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Classical music
- Franz LachnerFranz LachnerFranz Paul Lachner was a German composer and conductor.Lachner was born in Rain am Lech to a musical family . He studied music with Simon Sechter and Maximilian, the Abbé Stadler. He conducted at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. In 1834, he became Kapellmeister at Mannheim...
– Fragen - Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
– First Piano ConcertoPiano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor was written in 1830–1, around the same time as his fourth symphony , and premiered in Munich in October 1831. He had already written a piano concerto in A minor with string accompaniment and two concertos with two pianos...
opus 25 (premiered October 17 in MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
); Die erste Walpurgisnacht, opus 60, first version - George Onslow – Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, opus 42
Opera
- Vincenzo BelliniVincenzo BelliniVincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
- NormaNorma (opera)Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on December 26, 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition...
- La SonnambulaLa sonnambulaLa sonnambula is an opera semiseria in two acts, with music in the bel canto tradition by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, based on a scenario for a ballet-pantomime by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Pierre Aumer called La somnambule, ou L'arrivée d'un nouveau seigneur.The first...
- Norma
- Louis Joseph Ferdinand HeroldLouis Joseph Ferdinand HeroldLouis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold, better known as Ferdinand Hérold, , was a French operatic composer of Alsatian descent who also wrote many pieces for the piano, orchestra, and the ballet. He is best known today for the ballet La fille mal gardée and the overture to the opera Zampa.- Biography :L.J.F...
– Zampa - Giacomo MeyerbeerGiacomo MeyerbeerGiacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
– Robert Le Diable
Births
- January 15 – Albert NiemannAlbert Niemann (tenor)Albert Wilhelm Karl Niemann was a leading German tenor opera singer especially associated with the operas of Richard Wagner...
, operatic tenor (d. 1917) - February 21 – Henri MeilhacHenri MeilhacHenri Meilhac , was a French dramatist and opera librettist.-Biography:Meilhac was born in Paris in 1831. As a young man, he began writing fanciful articles for Parisian newspapers and vaudevilles, in a vivacious boulevardier spirit which brought him to the forefront...
, opera librettist (d. 1897) - February 26 – Filippo MarchettiFilippo MarchettiFilippo Marchetti was an Italian opera composer. After studying in Naples, his first opera was "successfully premiered" in Turin in 1856...
, opera composer (d. 1902) - June 28 – Joseph JoachimJoseph JoachimJoseph Joachim was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms, he is widely regarded as one of the most significant violinists of the 19th century.-Origins:...
, violinist (d. 1907) - August 1 – Antonio CotogniAntonio CotogniAntonio Cotogni was an Italian baritone of the first magnitude. Regarded internationally as being one of the greatest male opera singers of the 19th century, he was particularly admired by the composer Giuseppe Verdi...
, operatic baritone (d. 1901) - August 13 – Salomon JadassohnSalomon JadassohnSalomon Jadassohn was a German composer and a renowned teacher of piano and composition at the Leipzig Conservatory.-Life:...
, composer, teacher and theorist (d. 1902) - August 28 – Ludvig NormanLudvig NormanLudvig Norman was a Swedish composer, conductor, pianist, and music teacher. Together with Franz Berwald and Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, he ranks among the most important Swedish symphonists of the 19th century....
, Swedish composer (d. 1885) - December 10 – Philippe GillePhilippe GillePhilippe Gille was a French dramatist and opera librettist. He wrote over twenty librettos between 1857 and 1893, the most famous of which are Massenet's Manon and Delibes' Lakmé.-Librettos by Philippe Gille:...
, opera librettist (d. 1901) - date unknown
- Silverio FranconettiSilverio FranconettiSilverio Franconetti, also known simply as Silverio was a singer and the leading figure of the period in flamenco history known as The Golden Age, which was marked by the creation and definition of most musical forms or palos, the increasing professionalization of flamenco artists, and the shift...
, flamenco singer (d. 1889) - Eugène KettererEugène KettererEugène Ketterer was a French composer and pianist.In early youth he was a student at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won Second Prize for solfege in 1847 and a premier accessit in 1852, under Antoine François Marmontel...
, pianist and composer (d. 1870) - Carl KollingCarl KollingCarl Kölling was a German composer of piano music.Two works available for the intermediate piano student are Flying Leaves in C Major, Op. 147, No. 1 and Fluttering Leaves in A Minor, Op. 147, No. 2 found in Masterpieces with Flair published by Alfred Publishing Company, Inc.Hungary , Op...
, composer for piano (d. 1914)
- Silverio Franconetti
Deaths
- January 6 – Rodolphe KreutzerRodolphe KreutzerRodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1766) - January 8 – Franz KrommerFranz KrommerFranz Krommer was a Czech composer of classical music, whose seventy-year life began the year of the death of George Frideric Handel and ended a few years after that of Ludwig van Beethoven.-Life:The main events of his life were somewhat as follows:* From 1773 to 1776,...
, composer (b. 1759) - March 4 – Georg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael TelemannGeorg Michael Telemann was a German composer and theologian.Telemann was born in Plön, a grandson of the better-known Georg Philipp Telemann. He is mainly known for the church music he wrote. He died in Riga....
, theologian and composer (b. 1748) - April 13 – Ferdinand KauerFerdinand KauerFerdinand August Kauer , was an Austrian composer and pianist.-Biography:Kauer was born in Klein-Thaya near Znaim in South Moravia. He studied in Znaim, Tyrnau, and Vienna, and later settled in Vienna around 1777. In 1781 he joined Karl von Marinelli's newly formed company at Vienna as leader and...
, pianist and composer (b. 1751) - June 23 – Mateo AlbénizMateo AlbénizMateo Albéniz, also known as Mateo Antonio Pérez de Albéniz no relation to the better known composer Isaac Albénizwas a Spanish composer and priest....
, composer (b. 1755) - July 25 – Maria Agata SzymanowskaMaria Agata SzymanowskaMaria Szymanowska was a Polish composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century. She toured extensively throughout Europe, especially in the 1820s, before settling permanently in St. Petersburg...
, composer (b. 1789) - August 5 – Sébastien ÉrardSébastien ÉrardSébastien Érard , born Sébastien Erhard, was a French instrument maker of German origin who specialised in the production of pianos and harps, developing the capacities of both instruments and pioneering the modern piano....
, maker of pianos and harps (b. 1752) - September 8 – John AitkenJohn Aitken (music publisher)John Aitken was a Scottish-American music publisher.-Early life:Born in Dalkeith, Scotland around 1745. In October 1771, he arrived in Philadelphia via Rotterdam and became an indentured servant to goldsmith William Taylor for one-and-a-half years...
, music publisher (b. c. 1745) - November 14 – Ignaz PleyelIgnaz PleyelIgnace Joseph Pleyel , ; was an Austrian-born French composer and piano builder of the Classical period.-Early years:...
, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
(b. 1757) - November 30 – Catharine FrydendahlCatharine FrydendahlCatharine Elisabeth Frydendahl , was a Danish opera singer, and the prima donna of Danish opera in the 18th century.-Life and career:...
, opera singer (b. 1760) - date unknown
- Peter Anton KreusserPeter Anton Kreusser-Biography:Claiming to be of Swabian aristocrat stock he was born in Lengfurt . He began the Anglo-Bavarian branch to the Kreusser [Kreußer] family when he married Anne Rickets in London....
, composer (b. 1765) - Benedicto Sáenz the elder, cathedral organist of GuatemalaMusic of GuatemalaThe music of Guatemala is diverse. Music is played all over the country, even in the remotest corners. Towns also have wind and percussion bands -week processions, as well as on other occasions. The Garifuna people of Afro-Caribbean descent, who are spread thinly on the northeastern Caribbean...
- Peter Anton Kreusser