1839 in music

[edit] Events

• Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony

[edit] Classical Music

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel - 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ
• Josef Lanner - Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
• Robert Schumann:
• Arabesque in C, Op. 18 1839
• Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839
• Humoreske in Bb, Op. 20 1839
• 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 1839
• 3 Romances, Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)
• Louis Spohr - Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"
• Frédéric Chopin - Piano Sonata No. 2 "Funeral March"

[edit] Opera

• Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Esmeralda
• Giuseppe Lillo - Il conte di Chalais
• Giuseppe Verdi - Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio

[edit] Published popular music

• "Kathleen Mavourneen" w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch

[edit] Births

• January 1 - James Ryder Randall, popular songwriter
• January 9 - John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist
• January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek
• March 17 - Josef Rheinberger, composer (d. 1901)
• March 19 - Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
• March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky, composer
• July 14 - Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist
• August 24 - Eduard Nápravník, composer (d. 1916)
• November 24 - James Warren York, businessman, musical instrument maker

[edit] Deaths

• April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
• July 8 - Fernando Sor
• unknown date - Ferdinand Paer
• unknown date - Charles Stokes