Music year 1843

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Music year 1843

Events

April 2nd : The Gewandhauskapellmeister and composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy founds the Conservatorium der Musik in Leipzig .

December 17th : The Vienna Male Choir Association founded by August Schmidt on October 6th makes its first public appearance. Anton M. Storch and Gustav Barth are the first choir masters .

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Franz Berwald : Stor polonaise (Grand polonaise, orchestral work)
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy : The first Walpurgis Night revised version, premiered on February 2, 1843 in the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
Frédéric Chopin : Polonaise in A flat major op. 53 (composed in 1842, published in 1843); Scherzo No. 4 in E major op.54
Robert Schumann : Andante and Variations in B flat major for two pianos op. 46; Paradise and the Peri op.50
Clara Schumann : Song: Oh woe of the parting that he did ; Song: Loreley ; Six songs with accompaniment of the pianoforte , dedicated to Queen Caroline of Denmark (composed 1842, published 1843)
George Onslow : Two string quartets op 66 and 67
Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka : Tarantella on a Russian folk song (piano music)
Franz Lachner : Three string quartets op. 75 to 77;
Niels Wilhelm Gade : Symphony No. 2 in E major , op. 10; Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano op.43
Johann Strauss (father) : Loreley-Rhein-Klänge op.154

Musical theater

January 2 : The opera The Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner is in Dresden premiered with moderate success. After just four performances it is removed from the repertoire of the Royal Court Theater . Richard Wagner personally conducts the Royal Saxon Court Orchestra.

January 3 : The world premiere of the comic opera Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti takes place at the Théâtre-Italien in Paris . The libretto is by Giovanni Domenico Ruffini .

January 16 : The premiere of the opera Le Part du diable ( The Devil's Part ) by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

February 11 : Premiere of the opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata by Giuseppe Verdi in Milan at the Scala

March 15 : The opera Charles VI. by Jacques Fromental Halévy will be premiered in Paris.

May 10th : The world premiere of the opera The Sicilian Vespers by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner takes place in Stuttgart.

June 5th : The world premiere of the opera Maria di Rohan by Gaetano Donizetti on a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano takes place at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. Eugenia Tadolini sings the title role , the two protagonist roles Carlo Guasco and Giorgio Ronconi . The work was received favorably by Viennese critics and played across Europe for the next twenty years.

September 14 : World premiere of the opera Lambert Simuel by Adolphe Adam in Paris, (Opéra-Comique)

November 13th : The opera Dom Sébastien by Gaetano Donizetti is premiered at the Grand Opéra Paris . The libretto is by Eugène Scribe . Although a star cast can be called up with Rosine Stoltz and Gilbert Duprez , the work received only lukewarm criticism.

December 2nd : The world premiere of the operetta Jag går i kloster ( I'm going to the monastery ) by Franz Berwald takes place at the Royal Theater in Stockholm.

Other works

Giovanni Pacini : Maria, regina d'Inghilterra (opera); Medea, melodramma tragico (opera)
Saverio Mercadante : Il reggente (Opera)
Friedrich von Flotow : L'Esclave de Camoëns (Opera)

Born

January 23 : Bolko von Hochberg , German diplomat, artistic director and composer († 1926 )
January 30th : Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach , piano maker, entrepreneur and patron († 1892)
0February 5 : Franklin Taylor , English pianist and music teacher († 1919 )
February 14 : Louis Diémer , French pianist and composer († 1919 )
February 18 : Adelina Patti , Spanish soprano († 1919 )
0March 6 : Arthur Napoleão , Brazilian composer († 1925 )
0April 4 : Hans Richter , Austro-Hungarian conductor and honorary citizen of Bayreuth († 1916 )
0April 8 : Asger Hamerik , Danish composer and conductor († 1923 )
0May 2 : Carl Michael Ziehrer , Austrian composer († 1922 )
May 29 : Émile Pessard , French composer († 1917 )
0June 7 : Alfred Rabuteau , French composer († 1916 )
June 10 : Charles Lefèbvre , French composer († 1917 )
June 10 : Heinrich von Herzogenberg , Austrian composer († 1900 )
June 13 : Adolf Neuendorff , German-American composer, pianist, director and theater manager († 1897 )
June 15 : Edvard Grieg , Norwegian composer († 1907 )
June 18 : David Popper , Czech cellist and composer († 1913 )
July 29 : Jasper Bisbee , American old-time musician († 1935 )
0September 4 : Rafael Ildefonso Arté , Spanish music teacher († 1877 )
0September 4 : Ján Levoslav Bella , Slovak composer († 1936 )
0September 9 : Romain-Octave Pelletier , Canadian organist and composer († 1927 )
November 23 : Joseph Sucher , composer and conductor († 1908 )
November 28 : Émile Bernard , French organist and composer († 1902 )
November 28 : Manuel Gregorio Tavárez , Puerto Rican composer, pianist and music teacher († 1883 )
December 20 : Arnold Niggli , Swiss music historian and critic († 1927 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Eugen Adalbert Woycke , German pianist, composer and music teacher († after 1900)

Died

April 11th : Gavrila Ratschinski , Russian composer (* 1777 )
April 14 : Joseph Lanner , Austrian composer and violinist (* 1801 )
June 28 : Therese Bartolozzi , German pianist and composer (* around 1770 )
September 21 : José Antonio Picasarri , Argentine clergyman and musician (* 1769 )
October 19 : Louis-Barthélémy Pradher , French pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1782 )

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