1827 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1827.

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Events

• March 29 – The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.[1]
• April 5 – Pope Leo XII honours Nicolo Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur.[2]
• April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
• date unknown
  • Franz Liszt moves to Paris after the death of his father. He will live there for the next five years.[3]
  • François Dauverné becomes one of the first musicians to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.[4]
  • Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
  • The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.[5]
  • Soprano Laure-Cinthie Montalant marries the tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau.[6]
  • The Zagreb Music Association is founded; one of its earliest members is Ivan Padovec.[7]

Popular music

• "I'd Be a Butterfly" w.m. Thomas Haynes Bayly

Classical music

• Dionisio Aguado – 4 Rondos brillants, Op. 2
• Hector Berlioz – La mort d’Orphée (cantata)
• Frederic Chopin – Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" Op. 2
• Carl Czerny
  • 3 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op. 104
  • Piano Sonata Nos.6–9, Opp. 124, 143–145
  • 100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139
  • Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op. 153
• Mauro Giuliani – 6 Airs Irlandois nationales variées (for guitar), Op. 125[8]
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Symphony No.1, Op. 7
• Friedrich Kuhlau
  • Flute Sonata, Op. 85[9]
  • 4 Sonatinas, Op. 88
• Kaspar Kummer – Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No.2, Op.13
• Pierre Rode – Violin Concerto No.11 in D major, Op. 23
• Franz Schubert
  • Winterreise (song cycle)
  • Piano Trio No. 1
  • Piano Trio No. 2
  • Impromptus, D.899 and D.935
  • 3 Gesänge, D.902
  • Zur guten Nacht, D.903
  • Alinde, D.904
  • An die Laute, D.905
  • Variations on a Theme from Herold's 'Marie', D. 908
  • Phantasie for violin and piano in C major, D.934
  • 12 Valses nobles, D. 969
• Ignaz Seyfried – Libera me Domine, continuation of Mozart's Requiem
• Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto No.11, Op. 70

Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata[10]
• Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
• Giovanni Pacini – Margherita regina d'Inghilterra

Births

• January 14 – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (d. 1903)
• January 16 (or 17) – Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
• March 5 – Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
• April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
• August 20 (or 22)[11] – Josef Strauss, waltz composer (d. 1870)
• September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
• November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
• November 26 – Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (d. 1872)
• December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)[12]
• date unknown
  • Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
  • George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher (d. 1893)

Deaths

• January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
• January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
• February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
• February 11 – José Lidon, composer and musician (born 1748)
• February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
• March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)[13]
• March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
• April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
• July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
• August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
• August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
• August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
• August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
• November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
• November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem (b. 1763)
• November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
• date unknown
  • James Hook, composer (b. 1746)[14]
  • Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)

References

1. Owain Tudor Edwards; Open University. Age of Revolutions Course Team (1 January 1972). Beethoven. Open University Press. p. 43.
2. Francois-Joseph Fetis; Stewart Pollens (17 April 2013). Nicolo Paganini: With an Analysis of His Compositions and a Sketch of the History of the Violin. Courier Corporation. p. 45. ISBN 978-0-486-49798-3.
3. Oscar Thompson; Nicolas Slonimsky (1958). The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians. Dodd, Mead. p. 1022.
4. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society. American Musical Instrument Society. 1997. p. 122.
5. Paul Knowlton Whitaker (1974). Studies in nineteenth century and early twentieth century German literature: essays in honor of Paul K. Whitaker. APRA Press. p. 127.
6. Kimberly White (24 May 2018). Female Singers on the French Stage, 1830–1848. Cambridge University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-108-64319-1.
7. Ivan Padovec (February 2009). Second Concertino. DGA Editions. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-9776926-7-5.
8. Bibliographie von Deutschland, oder wöchentliches vollständiges Verzeichniß aller in Deutschland herauskommenden neuen Bücher, Musikalien und Kunstsachen (etc.). Industrie-Comptoir. 1827. p. 263.
9. Arndt Mehring (1 January 2000). Friedrich Kuhlau in the Mirror of His Flute Works. Harmonie Park Press. p. 90. ISBN 978-0-89990-091-9.
10. Gramophone (2002). Gramophone Classical Good Guide 2003. Gramophone. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-86024-902-3.
11. Joseph Wechsberg (1973). The waltz emperors: the life and times and music of the Strauss family. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 116.
12. Albert Ernest Wier (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians: In One Volume. Macmillan. p. 296.
13. Laura Williams Macy (2008). The Grove Book of Opera Singers. Oxford University Press. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-19-533765-5.
14. William Thomas Parke (1830). Musical memoirs : comprising an account of the general state of music in England from the first commemoration of Handel in 1784 to the year 1830... Colburn & Bentley. pp. 253.