1837 in music
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Events
- June 11 – Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
- Pauline Viardot (as Pauline García) makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.
Published popular music
- "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill HewittJohn Hill HewittJohn Hill Hewitt was an American songwriter, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his songs about the American South, including "A Minstrel's Return from the War", "The Soldier's Farewell", "The Stonewall Quickstep", and "Somebody's Darling"...
- "Woodman, Spare That Tree!", words by George Pope MorrisGeorge Pope MorrisGeorge Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter.-Life and work:With Nathaniel Parker Willis, he co-founded the daily New York Evening Mirror by merging his fledgling weekly New York Mirror with Willis's American Monthly in August 1831...
, music by Henry RussellHenry Russell (musician)Henry Russell was an English pianist, baritone singer and composer, born into a distinguished Jewish family.-Biography:...
Classical music
- Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
– Grande Messe des MortsRequiem (Berlioz)The Grande Messe des morts, Op. 5 by Hector Berlioz was composed in 1837. The Grande Messe des Morts is one of Berlioz's best-known works, with a tremendous orchestration of woodwind and brass instruments, including four antiphonal offstage brass ensembles placed at the corners of the concert stage... - 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...
– String Quartet #4 in E minor
Opera
- Daniel AuberDaniel AuberDaniel François Esprit Auber was a French composer.-Biography:The son of a Paris print-seller, Auber was born in Caen in Normandy. Though his father expected him to continue in the print-selling business, he also allowed his son to learn how to play several musical instruments...
– The Black Domino (with libretto by Eugène ScribeEugène ScribeAugustin Eugène Scribe , was a French dramatist and librettist. He is best known for the perfection of the so-called "well-made play" . This dramatic formula was a mainstay of popular theater for over 100 years.-Biography:...
) - Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
– Roberto Devereux - Albert LortzingAlbert LortzingGustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.-Biography:Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb Lortzing and Charlotte Sophie...
– Zar und ZimmermannZar und ZimmermannZar und Zimmermann is an opera in three acts, music by Albert Lortzing, libretto by the composer after Georg Christian Römer's Der Bürgermeister on Saarlem, oder Die zwei Peter, itself based on a French work entitled Le Bourgesmestre de Sardam, ou Les deux Pierres by Anne-Honoré-Joseph Duveyrier... - Gaspare SpontiniGaspare SpontiniGaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor, extremely celebrated in his time, though largely forgotten after his death.-Biography:...
– Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Births
- January 2 – Mily BalakirevMily BalakirevMily Alexeyevich Balakirev ,Russia was still using old style dates in the 19th century, and information sources used in the article sometimes report dates as old style rather than new style. Dates in the article are taken verbatim from the source and therefore are in the same style as the source...
, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910) - January 12 – Adolf JensenAdolf JensenAdolf Jensen was a German pianist, composer and music teacher, and was the brother of Gustav Jensen who was a violinist and composer.-Biography:...
, German pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1879) - April 13 – Julius WeissenbornJulius WeissenbornChristian Julius Weissenborn was a bassoonist, teacher and composer. He was principal bassoonist of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra from 1857 - 1887. He taught at the Leipzig Conservatory beginning in 1882...
, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer (d. 1888) - July 30 – Signe HebbeSigne HebbeSigne Amanda Georgina Hebbe , was a Swedish singer , actress, and theatre pedagogue.Signe Hebbe was born in Värnamo to the journalist Vendela Hebbe. In 1848, at the age of eleven, she studied music at the Lindblad pianoschool, at the school of the Royal Swedish Opera and for Karolina Bock. In...
, operatic soprano (d. 1925) - August 24 – Théodore DuboisThéodore DuboisFrançois-Clément Théodore Dubois was a French composer, organist and music teacher.-Biography:Théodore Dubois was born in Rosnay in Marne. He studied first under Louis Fanart and later at the Paris Conservatoire under Ambroise Thomas. He won the Prix de Rome in 1861...
, organist and composer (d. 1924) - December 9 – Emile WaldteufelÉmile WaldteufelÉmile Waldteufel was a French composer of dance music.-Life:Émile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians....
, composer (d. 1915) - December 25 – Cosima WagnerCosima WagnerCosima Francesca Gaetana Wagner, née de Flavigny, from 1844 known as Cosima Liszt; was the daughter of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt...
, daughter of Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
and wife of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
(d. 1930) - date unknown
- Ida Marie LipsiusIda Marie LipsiusIda Marie Lipsius, alias La Mara was a German writer and music historian.- Life :...
, music writer (d. 1927) - Kate SantleyKate SantleyKate Santley was an American-born English actress, singer, comedienne, and theatre manager. Her brother was the English baritone, Sir Charles Santley, famous in Wagner's Flying Dutchman among other roles.-Musical theatre career:...
, actress and singer (d. 1923) - La SernetaLa SernetaLa Serneta was a famous Spanish flamenco singer . She was seminal in soleares style. Her real name was Merced Fernández Vargas, and she was a very popular celebrity in flamenco cafés....
, flamenco singer (d. 1910)
- Ida Marie Lipsius
Deaths
- January 23 – John FieldJohn Field (composer)John Field was an Irish pianist, composer, and teacher. He was born in Dublin into a musical family, and received his early education there. The Fields soon moved to London, where Field studied under Muzio Clementi...
, pianist and composer (b. 1782) - April 9 – Polly CuninghamePolly CuninghameMarie Polly Cuninghame , known after her marriage as Polly de Heus, was a Dutch ballet dancer. After ballet training in Bordeaux she danced in Paris and Brussels...
, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785) - May 5 – Niccolò Antonio ZingarelliNiccolò Antonio ZingarelliNiccolò Antonio Zingarelli was an Italian composer, chiefly of opera.-Early career:Zingarelli was born in Naples, where he studied at the Santa Maria di Loreto Conservatory under Fenaroli and Speranza....
, composer (b. 1752) - June 16 – Valentino FioravantiValentino FioravantiValentino Fioravanti was a celebrated Italian composer of opera buffas.One of the best opera buffa composers between Domenico Cimarosa and Gioacchino Rossini. He was especially popular in Naples, and was the first in Italy to introduce spoken dialogue in the French manner in his works, sometimes...
, opera buffa composer (b. 1764) - July 28 – Joseph SchubertJoseph SchubertJoseph Schubert was a German composer, violinist, and violist.Joseph Schubert was born in Varnsdorf, Bohemia to a musical family. He received his early musical education from his father, who was a kantor, and then in Prague...
, violinist and composer (b. 1754) - August 6 – Johann Nepomuk SchelbleJohann Nepomuk SchelbleJohann Nepomuk Schelble , was a German musician and composer.Schelble was born in Hüfingen in the Black Forest...
, composer (b. 1789) - October 6 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
- October 11 – Samuel WesleySamuel WesleySamuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart."-Personal life:...
, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles WesleyCharles WesleyCharles Wesley was an English leader of the Methodist movement, son of Anglican clergyman and poet Samuel Wesley, the younger brother of Anglican clergyman John Wesley and Anglican clergyman Samuel Wesley , and father of musician Samuel Wesley, and grandfather of musician Samuel Sebastian Wesley... - October 17 – Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
, composer (b. 1778) - October 28 – Jean-Blaise MartinJean-Blaise MartinJean-Blaise Martin, full name Nicolas Jean-Blaise Martin was a French operasinger whose tessitura lay between tenor and baritone, which became later known as "baryton-martin"....
, opera singer (b. 1768) - date unknown
- Franz Joseph AntonyFranz Joseph AntonyFranz Joseph Antony was a choral composer.He was born at Münster, Westphalia, received Holy Orders, and in 1819 became choirmaster at St. Paul's Cathedral in Münster, succeeding his father as organist, in 1832. In addition to some songs, he published four choral masses...
, organist and choral composer (b. 1790) - Théodore LatourThéodore LatourJean Théodore Latour , also known as Jean T. Latour, was a French pianist and composer. He wrote several piano sonatinas that have been adapted for early intermediate piano students . His work appears in several books designed for such students....
, composer for piano (b. 1766) - Christina RahmChristina RahmChristina Rahm, , was a Swedish operatic singer and a dramatic actress. She was employed at the Eriksberg Theatre in Stockholm in 1780-84 and at the Stenborg Theatre 1784-99, and therefter at travelling theatres...
, opera singer (b. c. 1760)
- Franz Joseph Antony