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Events in Music History in 1831

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  • Mar 6 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula" premieres at Teatro Carcano in Milan, Italy
  • Jul 4 "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)", with lyric by Samuel Francis Smith, has 1st public performance at Park Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts

Piano Concerto No. 1

Oct 17 Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres in Munich, Germany, with the composer as soloist

Composer and Pianist Felix Mendelssohn
  • Nov 21 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Robert le diable" (Robert the Devil) premieres at the Paris OpĂ©ra
  • Dec 26 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "Norma" premieres in Milan


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