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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.

[edit] Popular music

[edit] Classical music

• Hector Berlioz - La mort d’Orphée
• Franz Schubert - Winterreise (song cycle)

[edit] Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini - Il Pirata
• Michele Carafa - Les Deux Figaro
• Giovanni Pacini - Margherita regina d'Inghilterra

[edit] Births

• April 25 - Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
• August 20 - Josef Strauss, composer (d. 1870)
• September 5 - Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
• November 12 - Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
• date unknown
  • Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
  • Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)

[edit] Deaths

• February 2 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
• March 9 - Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
• March 26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
• April 3 - Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
• 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 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)
• date unknown - James Hook, composer (b. 1746)