1829 in music

Events

• December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes a house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
• Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion at Berlin
• Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy at Warsaw which will later be named after him.

Popular music

"There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw^[1]

Classical music

• Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F sharp
• Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major

Opera

• Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

• January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
• March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
• May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
• May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
• June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
• June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
• August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
• August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
• August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
• November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)

Deaths

• January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
• February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
• February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
• May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
• October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
• December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)

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