Music year 1847

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Music year 1847
Giuseppe Verdi's first French Grand opéra Jérusalem will be premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris .

The Carltheater built in 1847 around 1850

Events

May 9 : François Bullier opens the Jardin Bullier dance hall in Paris

September 11th : The catchy tune Oh! Susannah (I come from Alabama) by the composer Stephen Collins Foster will be performed for the first time in a saloon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania .

December 10 : The Carltheater in Leopoldstadt near Vienna, built according to plans by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll , is ceremoniously opened. The evening begins with a gala overture by the Stuttgart court conductor Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner , who is a friend of the theater director Carl Carl .

Original score by Minuit, Chrétiens

Adolphe Adam composes the Christmas carol Minuit, Chrétiens based on a poem by Placide Cappeau . It is best known today in the English version Oh Holy Night .

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Under the impression of the death of his sister Fanny Hensel , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed his last work, the String Quartet No. 6 , which he completed in September. Two months later, like his sister, he dies of a stroke. The oratorio earth, hell and heaven remains unfinished.
Frédéric Chopin : Trois Valses (including the so-called minute waltz) op 64; Sonata for violoncello and piano in G minor op 65 (completed in 1846, published in 1847); Dix-sept mélodies polonaises op 74 (completed in 1847, published posthumously in 1859).
Robert Schumann : Trio for piano, violin and violoncello No. 1 in D minor, op. 63; Trio for piano, violin and violoncello No. 2 in F major op. 80; Three songs for male choir , op. 62; Ritornelle in canonical ways for polyphonic male singing , op.65.
Clara Schumann : Trio for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, G minor op 17 (published in 1847); Concerto in F minor for piano and orchestra (fragment).
Giuseppe Verdi : Il poveretto ( “The Beggar” ), romance for a voice and piano.
Otto Nicolai : Salve regina for mezzo-soprano and orchestra , op. 39; The 98th Psalm for four solo voices, eight-part double choir and orchestra ; Liturgy No. 1 for eight-part a cappella choir ; Liturgy No. 2 for four-part a cappella choir .
Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka : The toast song ; Greetings to my homeland (piano work)
Niels Wilhelm Gade : Symphony No. 3 in A minor , op.15.
Johann Strauss (son) : Irenen-Walzer op 32; Architecten-Ball-Tänze (Waltz) op 36; Singer Rides (Waltz) op 41; Wild Roses (Waltz) op 42; Harvest Dances (Waltzes) op 45; Village stories (waltz) op 47; Bachus Polka op 38; Explosions-Polka op 43; Fest-Marsch (1847) op 49; Alexander Quadrille op 33; Industrial quadrille op 35; Wilhelminen Quadrille op 37; Celadon Quadrille op 48.

Musical theater

Theater ticket for the premiere

January 26th : The world premiere of the operetta A rural engagement party in Sweden by Franz Berwald takes place at the Theater an der Wien near Vienna .

February 4th : The world premiere of the opera buffa Il birraio di Preston ( The Brewer of Preston ) by Luigi Ricci on a libretto by Francesco Guidi takes place with success at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

February 18th : Premiere of the opera Vielka by Giacomo Meyerbeer at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

March 14th : Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth has its world premiere at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence . The libretto by Francesco Maria Piave is based on the tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare . The opera is enthusiastically received by the audience, while the critics react rather cautiously and criticize the lack of a love scene.

Costumes for I masnadieri

May 31 : World premiere of the one-act opera La bouquetière by Adolphe Adam in Paris.

July 22nd : Giuseppe Verdi's opera I masnadieri based on a libretto by Andrea Maffei based on the play Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller will be premiered under the direction of the composer at the Royal Opera House on Haymarket in London. Here, too, the audience reacted enthusiastically, while the critics expressed reservations.

October 13 : World premiere of the opera Konradin by Ferdinand Hiller in Dresden

November 15th : World premiere of the comic opera Les Premiers Pas ou Les Deux Génies by Jacques Fromental Halévy in collaboration with Adam, Auber and Carafa at the Opéra-Comique in Paris

November 26th : Giuseppe Verdi's first French Grand opéra Jérusalem is premiered at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris . The work is a rework of Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata from 1843.

November 25th : Martha or Der Markt zu Richmond , a romantic-comic opera in 4 acts by Friedrich von Flotow and Friedrich Wilhelm Riese , is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

December 20th : World premiere of Michael William Balfe's opera The Maid of Honor at Drury Lane Theater in London.

Further stage works

Daniel-François-Esprit Auber : Haydée, ou Le secrét (opera).
François Bazin : Le Malheur d'être jolie (Opera)
Niels Wilhelm Gade : Siegfried and Brünnhilde (opera, fragment and therefore not performed)
William Vincent Wallace : Matilda of Hungary (Opera)
Giovanni Bottesini : Cristoforo Colombo (opera in one act)

Born

January 1st : Franz Rezek , Austrian military bandmaster and composer († 1912 )
January 2 : Hermann Riedel , German composer and conductor († 1913 )

February 7 : Ernst Frank , German composer and conductor († 1889 )
February 15 : Robert Fuchs , Austrian composer († 1927 )
February 16 : Philipp Scharwenka , German composer and music teacher († 1917 )
February 17 : Mathilde Mallinger , Austrian opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher († 1920 )

March 8 : Hermann Winkelmann , German opera singer († 1912 )
March 9 : Martin Marsick , Belgian violin virtuoso and teacher († 1924 )
March 13 : Pietro Musone , Italian composer († 1879 )
March 20 : Gavriil Musicescu , Romanian composer († 1903 )

April 29 : Carl Joachim Andersen , Danish flautist, conductor and composer († 1909 )
May 13 : Johannes Haarklou , Norwegian composer († 1925 )
June 24 : Gaston Salvayre , French composer († 1916 )

July 12 : Karl Heinrich Barth , German piano teacher and pianist († 1922 )
July 29 : Theophil Forchhammer , Swiss composer, church musician and organist († 1923 )

October 17 : Chiquinha Gonzaga , Brazilian pianist and composer († 1935 )
October 21 : Giuseppe Giacosa , Italian poet, actor and librettist († 1906 )
October 26 : Haydn Keeton , English organist, music teacher and composer († 1921 )