1847 in music

Overview of the events of 1847 in music

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## Events

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* February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside.
* March 3 – I Lombardi alla prima crociata is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States.
* March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.[1]
* September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.[2]

## Publications

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* Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.[citation needed]

## Popular music

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* "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam
* "Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz
* "Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz
* "Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner

## Classical music

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* Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding
* Frederic Chopin
* Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute)
* Waltz Op. 64. No. 2
* Cello Sonata
* August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2
* Franz Liszt
* Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
* Glanes de Woronince
* Most of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
* Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6
* Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra
* Robert Schumann
* Symphony No. 2
* Piano Trio No. 1
* Henryk Wieniawski – Grand Caprice Fantastique Op. 1

## Opera

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* Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – Il Buontempone
* Giovanni Bottesini – Cristoforo Colombo
* Friedrich von Flotow – Martha
* Ivar Hallstrom – Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
* Karel Miry – Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
* Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth
* William Vincent Wallace – Matilda of Hungary

## Births

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* January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
* February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
* March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
* March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
* June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
* July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
* July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
* October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
* November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
* November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
* December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
* December 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912)
* December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
* December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931)
* date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)

## Deaths

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* January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)[3]
* April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
* May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)[4]
* June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784)
* June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770)
* July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)[5]
* September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
* September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)[6]
* November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)[7]
* November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)[8]
* date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)[9]

## References

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1. ^ Charles Osborne (2004). The Opera Lover's Companion. Yale University Press. p. 484\. ISBN 9780300123739.
2. ^ Walker, Alan (1973). The Great Composers: Liszt. New York: T. Y. Crowell Co. p. 55\. ISBN 9780690496994. OL 21091256M.
3. ^ V. K. Subramanian (1996). Sacred Songs of India. Abhinav Publications. p. 295.
4. ^ Todd, R. Larry (2003). Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 557\. ISBN 978-0-19-511043-2.
5. ^ Jan ten Bokum: "Wilms, Johann Wilhelm", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), ISBN 1-56159-239-0
6. ^ George Wesley Harris (1943). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Dodd, Mead. p. 30.
7. ^ Mercer-Taylor, Peter (2000). The Life of Mendelssohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 198–203\. ISBN 978-0-521-63972-9.
8. ^ Henry James Garland (1957). Henry Francis Lyte and the Story of "Abide with Me". Torch Publishing Company. p. 52.
9. ^ The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Macmillan. 1938. p. 1200.

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