1834 in music

[edit] Events

• Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
• Ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut at the Paris Opéra.

[edit] Publications

• Pierre Baillot - L'art du violon

[edit] Popular music

• "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)
• "Turkey in the Straw"

[edit] Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - Harold in Italy
• William Sterndale Bennett - Piano Concerto in C Minor

[edit] Opera

• John Barnett - The Mountain Sylph
• Konradin Kreutzer - Das Nachtlager von Granada
• Saverio Mercadante - Uggiero il danese

[edit] Births

• January 14 - William Cleaver Francis Robinson
• February 28 - Sir Charles Santley, singer
• August 17 - Peter Benoit
• August 31 - Amilcare Ponchielli, composer
• January 28 - Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer

[edit] Deaths

• October 8 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer