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Overview of the events of 1837 in music
Overview of the events of 1837 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1837.
Publications[edit]
Published popular music[edit]
Classical music[edit]
- Charles-Valentin Alkan – 3 Morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15
- Ludwig Berger – 15 Etudes, Op.33
- Charles-Auguste de Bériot – Violin Concerto No. 1, Op.16
- Hector Berlioz – Grande Messe des Morts
- Frédéric Chopin
- Fanny Ellsler – 3 Airs de Ballet
- Adolf von Henselt
- Romance, Op. 10
- Variations de concert sur le motif de l'opéra 'L'elisir d'amore', Op. 1
- Franz Liszt
- Grandes études, S. 137
- Album d'un voyageur, S. 156
- Hexaméron, S. 392
- Soirées musicales de Rossini, S. 424
- 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
- 3 String Quartets, Op.111
- 4 Gesänge, Op.117
- Robert Schumann
- Johann Strauss Sr. – Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97
- Sigismond Thalberg
- 12 Etudes, Op.26
- Grand Fantasia on 'God save the Queen' and 'Rule Britannia', Op.27
- January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
- January 12 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1879)
- January 27 – Carlotta Ferrari, composer (died 1907)[4]
- February 23 – Rosalía de Castro, lyricist (died 1885)
- March 12 – Alexandre Guilmant, organist (died 1911)
- March 15 – Célestine Galli-Marié, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original Carmen (d. 1905)
- April 13 – Julius Weissenborn, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer (d. 1888)
- April 18 – Armand Silvestre, librettist (died 1901)
- May 23 – Józef Wieniawski, pianist (died 1912)
- June 1 – Ferdinand Quentin Dulcken, English (later American) pianist and composer (d. 1901)
- June 25 – Josef Werner, composer (died 1922)
- July 6 – Władysław Żeleński, composer (died 1921)[5]
- July 30 – Signe Hebbe, operatic soprano (d. 1925)
- August 24
- September 19 – Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer (died 1914)
- December 7 – Édouard Mangin, musician (died 1907)
- December 9 – Emile Waldteufel, pianist and composer (d. 1915)[6]
- December 24 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (d. 1930)
- December 30 – Ida Marie Lipsius, music writer (d. 1927)
- date unknown
- January 23 – John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)[7]
- February 10 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and librettist (born 1799)
- April 9 – Polly Cuninghame, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
- May 5
- June 16 – Valentino Fioravanti, opera buffa composer (b. 1764)
- July 28 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (b. 1754)
- August 6 – Johann Nepomuk Schelble, composer (b. 1789)
- October 6 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
- October 11 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley
- October 17 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer (b. 1778)
- October 28 – Jean-Blaise Martin, opera singer (b. 1768)
- date unknown
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