1842 in Music History
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Months in 1842: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 4 of 4
Jan 7th - Gioacchino Rossini's opera "Stabat Mater" premieres in Paris
Mar 9th - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan
Nov 17th - Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
Dec 9th - St M Glinka's opera "Russlan Ludmilla," premieres in Petersburg
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 24 of 24
Jan 7th - Johan Lindegren, composer
Jan 22nd - Charles Henri Marechal, composer
Feb 3rd - Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
Feb 22nd - Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
Feb 24th - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
Mar 22nd - Carl A N Rosa, German violinist/composer
Mar 22nd - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer
Apr 14th - Sven August Korling, composer
Apr 29th - Karl Millöcker, Dutch composer (d. 1899)
May 5th - Johann Nepomuk Fuchs, composer
May 12th - Jules Emile Fred Massenet, Montaud France, composer (Manon, Le Cid)
May 13th - Arthur Seymour Sullivan, London England, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan)
Jun 12th - Rikard Nordraak, composer
Jun 19th - Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
Jun 29th - Josef Labor, composer
Jul 4th - Gyula Erkel, composer
Aug 30th - Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, composer
Sep 13th - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer
Sep 23rd - Karl Munzinger, composer
Oct 24th - Josef Nesvera, composer
Nov 2nd - Otto Reubke, composer
Dec 15th - Henry Gadsby, composer
Dec 22nd - Nicola d' Arienzo, composer
Dec 28th - Calixa Lavallee, composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 13 of 13
Feb 21st - Wojciech Zywny, composer, dies at 85
Mar 6th - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
Mar 7th - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer, dies at 61
Mar 15th - Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
Jun 20th - Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
Aug 25th - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80
Sep 15th - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
Oct 2nd - Jose Mariano Elizaga, composer, dies at 56
Oct 8th - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer, dies at 68
Nov 15th - Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43
Nov 24th - Pehr Frigel, composer, dies at 92
Dec 5th - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers, dies at 82
Dec 25th - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76
