1834 in music

Events

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

Publications

• Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon

Popular music

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

Classical music

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

Opera

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

Births

• January 14 – William Cleaver Francis Robinson
• January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer
• February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, singer
• March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
• June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
• June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer
• August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
• August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
• August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
• October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
• Date unknown - Hildegard Werner, Swedish music conductor

Deaths

• February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
• September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
• October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
• date unknown
  • Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
  • August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
  • Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)