Music year 1848

Music year 1848

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Robert Schumann : Album for the Young, op. 68; Images from the East, Six Impromptus op. 66 (piano four hands);
Clara Schumann : Three mixed choirs (evening celebration in Venice; Vorwärts; Gondoliera) (composed for Robert Schumann's 38th birthday)
Giuseppe Verdi : Suona la tromba ("The trumpet sounds") (cantata)
Otto Nicolai : The 84th Psalm for eight-part choir a cappella ; The 100th Psalm for eight-part double choir a cappella ; The 97th Psalm for four-part choir a cappella
George Onslow : String Quintet op 72; String Quintet op. 73; String Quintet op. 74; String Quintet op. 75; Quintet for piano and strings op. 76; Nonet for winds and strings op 77; Sextet for wind instruments and strings ; 2 string quintets op.78
Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka : Kamarinskaja, Scherzo (orchestral music)
Johann Strauss (father) : Radetzky March op. 228. It is probably the best known and most popular work of the composer. Helenen Waltz op.204
Johann Strauss (son) : Sounds from Wallachia op. 50; Liberty Songs op. 52; Boys Songs op. 55; New Styrian Dances op. 61; Geisselhiebe-Polka op. 60; Revolution March op. 54; Student march op 56; Brno National Guard March ; Martha Quadrille op. 46; Annika Quadrille op 53

February 16 : World premiere of the ballet Griseldis ou Les cinq sens by Adolphe Adam in Paris.
March 18th : World premiere of the opera Allan Cameron by Giovanni Pacini at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
June 16 : World premiere of the opera L'Apparition by François Benoist in Paris
October 25 : World premiere of the opera Il corsaro by Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, Teatro Grande
November 11th : World premiere of the comic opera Le Val d'Andorre by Jacques Fromental Halévy at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
November 30th : World premiere of the opera Poliuto by Gaetano Donizetti at the Teatro di S. Carlo in Naples

Albert Lortzing : Regina , (opera) was written in 1848 but first performed in 1899.
François Benoist : L'Apparition , (opera); Nisida ou les Amazones des Açores , (ballet)
Albert Grisar : Gille ravisseur (opera)

0January 6 : Teobaldo Power , Spanish composer († 1884 )
January 15 : Raphael von Koeber , German-Russian philosopher and musician († 1923 )
January 21 : Henri Duparc , French composer († 1933 )
February 27 : Hubert Parry , English composer († 1918 )
March 25 : Bertha Drechsler Adamson , English violinist, conductor and music teacher († 1924 )
0June 1 : Otto Malling , Danish organist and composer († 1915 )
June 25 : Paul Puget , French composer († 1917 )
July 11 : Joaquim Calado , Brazilian flautist and composer († 1880 )
0August 1 : Pierre Gailhard , French opera bassist († 1918 )
0August 1 : František Kmoch , Czech composer and conductor († 1912 )
August 22 : Giuseppe dell'Orefice , Italian composer († 1889 )
August 23 : Adolf Boettge , German military musician († 1913 )
November 24th : Lilli Lehmann , German opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher († 1929 )
December 21 : Jakob Hillier , Romanian-German composer, church musician and music teacher († 1918 )

0April 8 : Louis Adam , French composer and piano virtuoso (* 1758 )
0April 8 : Gaetano Donizetti , Italian composer (* 1797 )
April 24 : François (Frans) Van Campenhout , Belgian opera singer, conductor and composer (* 1779 )
May 21 : Feliks Janiewicz , Polish composer and violinist (* 1762 )
0August 5th : Nicola Vaccai , Italian composer (* 1790 )
0October 4 : Peter Friedrich Engstfeld , German organist and hymn poet (* 1793 )

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