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Events in Music

Events 1 - 6 of 6

Mar 9th - Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
Apr 16th - Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophete," premieres in Paris
Apr 16th - Opera "Il Profeta," premieres in Paris
May 10th - Pack destroys Astor Place opera house in NYC (22 killed)
Dec 8th - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller," premieres in Naples
Dec 14th - 1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 11 of 11

May 27th - "Blind" Tom Bethune, pianist/composer
Jun 9th - Joseph Vezina, composer
Jul 15th - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
Jul 23rd - Geza Zichy, composer
Aug 18th - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer
Sep 17th - Vaclav Juda Novotny, composer
Sep 23rd - Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ivanov, composer
Sep 29th - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer
Oct 16th - Arnold Krug, composer
Oct 16th - Charles Harford Lloyd, composer
Nov 8th - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 12 of 12

Feb 8th - Francois-Antoine Habeneck, composer, dies at 68
Feb 9th - Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
Feb 13th - Christian Rummel, composer, dies at 61
Feb 22nd - Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer, dies at 28
May 11th - Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai, composer, dies at 38
May 11th - Otto Nicolai, German composer/conductor, dies at 39
Jun 3rd - Francois de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer, dies at 73
Jun 10th - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer, dies at 63
Aug 26th - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer, dies at 66
Sep 25th - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
Oct 17th - Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer, dies at 39
Dec 14th - Conradin Kreutzer, composer, dies at 69