1840 in music
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[edit] Events
- February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
- June 9 - Franz Liszt gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms.
- Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe. He also marries Clara Wieck.
- The first harmonium is built.
- Schindler's biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is published.
- Michele Carafa becomes Professor of Counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire.
[edit] Popular music
- Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) - "The Old Arm Chair"
- Robert Lucas de Pearsall - "Lay a garland"
[edit] Classical music
- Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major, "Lobgesang"
- Louis Spohr - Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"
[edit] Opera
- Gaetano Donizetti - "La Favourite" and La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)
- Albert Lortzing - Hans Sachs
- Temistocle Solera - Ildegonda
- Giuseppe Verdi - Un giorno di regno
[edit] Births
- April 12 - Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (d. 1910)
- May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
- August 28 - Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (d. 1908)
- November - Célestine Marié, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original Carmen (d. 1905)
[edit] Deaths
- May 1 - Giuditta Grisi, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1805)
- May 27 - Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer (b. 1782)
- November 19 - Johann Michael Vogl, singer and composer (b. 1768)
- date unknown
- Nikolai Lavrov, operatic baritone (b. 1802)
- Wojciech Adalbert Żywny, pianist and violinist, teacher of Chopin (b. 1756)
