1843 in music

Events

• February 6 - The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
• November 13 - Gaetano Donizetti's final opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.
• August Conradi becomes organist of the Invalidinhaus, Berlin.
• Gottfried Kinkel marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.

Popular music

• "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
• "Old Dan Tucker", usually attributed to Dan Emmett
• "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl

Classical music

• Franz Berwald - Symphony No. 1 in G minor, "Sérieuse"
• Frédéric Chopin - Opus 51: Impromptu in G-flat major; Opus 52: Ballade in F minor
• August Conradi - Symphony No. 1
• Niels Gade - Symphony No. 2
• Franz Liszt - Album Leaf in E major (S. 166a)
• Johann Strauss - Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 (Echoes of the Rhine Loreley)

London debut of "Don Pasquale"

Opera

• 27 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
• Julius Benedict - The Bride of Venice
• Gaetano Donizetti - Don Pasquale
• Giovanni Pacini - Medea
• Giuseppe Verdi - I Lombardi
• Richard Wagner - The Flying Dutchman
• Fromental Halévy - Charles VI

Births

• February 10 - Adelina Patti, soprano
• March 6 - Arthur Napoleão dos Santos, Brazilian composer
• March 16 - Louis Gregh, composer and publisher
• April 8 - Asger Hamerik, composer
• May 2 - Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer and bandmaster
• May 20 - Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist
• May 29 - Emile Pessard, French composer
• June 13 - Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist
• June 15 - Edvard Grieg, composer
• June 16 - David Popper, cellist and composer
• June 19 - Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer
• June 20 - Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer
• August 4 - Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist
• August 5 - James Scott Skinner
• August 19 - Sándor Bertha, Hungarian composer
• August 20 - Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano
• August 26 - Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
• September 4 - Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer
• November 2 - Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
• November 10 - Gialdino Gialdini, Italian composer
• November 28 - Émile Bernard, French composer and organist
• December 3 - Franz Xaver Neruda, Danish cellist and composer
• December 13 - George Stephanescu, Romanian composer
• December 22 - Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer
• date unknown - Eduard Holst, Danish composer

Deaths

• January 11
  • Antoine Bournonville, dancer, singer and actor, 82
  • Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter, 63
• March 9 - Christian August Pohlenz, conductor and composer, 52
• April 14 - Josef Lanner, Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)
• May 3 - Franz Xaver Gebel, conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56
• May 4 - Eduard Rottmanner, organist and composer, 33
• May 12 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher, 74
• July - Nehemiah Shumway, composer of sacred music, 81
• July 29 - Domenico Reina, operatic and bel canto tenor, 47

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