1827 in music
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Events
- March 29 - The funeral of Ludwig van BeethovenDeath of Ludwig van BeethovenThe death of Ludwig van Beethoven on 26 March 1827 followed a prolonged illness. It was witnessed by his sister-in-law and by his close friend Anselm Hüttenbrenner, who provided a vivid description of the event. Beethoven's funeral was held three days later, and the procession was witnessed by a...
is attended by huge crowds. - April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia SavoraniEugenia TadoliniEugenia Tadolini was an Italian operatic soprano. Admired for the beauty of her voice and stage presence, she was one of Donizetti's favourite singers. During her career she created over 20 leading roles, including the title roles in Donizetti's Linda di Chamounix and Maria di Rohan and Verdi's...
marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher. - François DauvernéFrançois DauvernéFrançois Georges Auguste Dauverné was a French trumpeter who in 1827 was the first to use the new F three valved trumpet in public performance...
becomes the first musician to use the new F three valved trumpet in public performance. - RossiniGioacchino RossiniGioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna. - The term GesamtkunstwerkGesamtkunstwerkA Gesamtkunstwerk is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so...
is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
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Classical music
- Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
– La mort d’Orphée - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
- WinterreiseWinterreiseWinterreise is a song cycle for voice and piano by Franz Schubert , a setting of 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller. It is the second of Schubert's two great song cycles on Müller's poems, the earlier being Die schöne Müllerin...
(song cycleSong cycleA song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist. Unification can be achieved by a narrative or a persona common to the songs, or even, as in Schumann's...
) - Piano Trio #1Piano Trio No. 1 (Schubert)The Trio No. 1 in B-flat major for piano, violin, and cello, D. 898, was written by Franz Schubert in 1827. The composer finished the work in 1828, in the last year of his life. It was published in 1836 as Opus 99, eight years after the composer's death....
- Piano Trio #2Piano Trio No. 2 (Schubert)The Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, was one of the last compositions completed by Franz Schubert, dated November 1827. It was published by Probst as opus 100 in late 1828, shortly before the composer's death and first performed at a private party in January...
- Winterreise
Opera
- Vincenzo BelliniVincenzo BelliniVincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
– Il Pirata - Michele CarafaMichele CarafaMichele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
– Les Deux Figaro - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
– Margherita regina d'Inghilterra
Births
- March 5 – Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
- April 25 – Jean Antoine ZinnenJean Antoine ZinnenJean Antoine Zinnen was a Luxembourgian composer, best known for the Luxembourgian national anthem, Ons Hémécht.-Career:...
, composer (d. 1898) - August 20 – Josef StraussJosef StraussJosef Strauss was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, the son of Johann Strauss I and Maria Anna Streim, and brother of Johann Strauss II and Eduard Strauss. His father wanted him to choose a career in the Austrian Habsburg military...
, composer (d. 1870) - September 5 – Goffredo MameliGoffredo MameliGoffredo Mameli was an Italian patriot, poet and writer, and a notable figure in the Italian Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of the current Italian national anthem.-Biography:...
, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849) - November 12 – Gustav MerkelGustav MerkelGustav Merkel was a German organist and composer.Having been given some lessons by Schumann in his youth , Merkel spent most of his career in Dresden, concentrating on organ-playing from 1858...
, organist and composer (d. 1885) - date unknown
- Martino FrontiniMartino FrontiniMartino Frontini was an Italian composer and writer who worked with many Catanian musicians in the second half of the nineteenth century; he was the father, and first teacher, of composer Francesco Paolo Frontini. He founded the town band, which he led for thirty years; he also directed the band...
, composer (d. 1909) - Antonio GiugliniAntonio GiugliniAntonio Giuglini was an Italian operatic tenor. During the last eight years of his life, before he developed signs of mental instability, he earned renown as one of the leading stars of the operatic scene in London...
, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
- Martino Frontini
Deaths
- January 18 – John HoylandJohn Hoyland (organist)John Hoyland was an English organist and composer.-References:...
, organist and composer (b. 1783) - January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
- February 2 – Johann Nepomuk KalcherJohann Nepomuk KalcherJohann Nepomuk Kalcher was an opera composer in Italy. Instructor of Carl Maria von Weber and student of Grätz.One of his works is Die Macht der Liebe und des Weins.-References:...
, opera composer (b. 1764) - February 26 – David Moritz MichaelDavid Moritz MichaelDavid Moritz Michael was a composer.Born and educated in Germany, David Moritz Michael became a member of the Moravian Church when he was thirty years old. He taught in the Moravian school at Niesky and, in 1795, he emigrated to Pennsylvania...
, composer (b. 1751) - March 9 – Franz Xaver GerlFranz Xaver GerlFranz Xaver Gerl was a bass singer and composer of the classical era. He sang the role of Sarastro in the premiere of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.-Life:...
, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764) - March 26 – Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, composer (b. 1770) - April 3 – Ernst ChladniErnst ChladniErnst Florens Friedrich Chladni was a German physicist and musician. His important works include research on vibrating plates and the calculation of the speed of sound for different gases. For this some call him the "Father of Acoustics"...
, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756) - July 17 – Charles BorremansCharles BorremansCharles Borremans , was a violinist and conductor at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Belgium from 1804 to 1825. The composer Charles-Louis-Joseph succeeded him as conductor of this opera house....
, violinist and conductor (b. 1769) - August 2 – James HewittJames Hewitt (musician)James Hewitt was an American conductor, composer and music publisher. Born in Dartmoor, England, he was known to have lived in London in 1791 and early 1792, but went to New York in September of that year. He stayed in New York until 1811, conducting a theater orchestra and composing and...
, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770) - August 3 – Lorenz Leopold HaschkaLorenz Leopold HaschkaLorenz Leopold Haschka was an Austrian poet and author of the words to Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser, Austria's national anthem until 1918....
, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749) - August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine DésaugiersMarc-Antoine Madeleine DésaugiersMarc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers was a French composer, dramatist, and song-writer.Note: Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers is easily confused in historical writings with his father, Marc-Antoine Désaugiers Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers (17 November 1772, Fréjus – 9 August 1827) was a French...
, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772) - August 28 – Adam LisztAdam LisztÁdám Liszt - was a Hungarian musician and father of composer and pianist Franz Liszt.He was born in Nemesvölgy, Kingdom of Hungary as the second child of György Liszt and Barbara Slezák...
, Hungarian musician, father of Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
(b. 1776) - November 6 – Bartolomeo CampagnoliBartolomeo CampagnoliBartolomeo Campagnoli was an Italian violinist and composer. Campagnoli was born at Cento and died at Neustrelitz....
, violinist (b. 1751) - November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's RequiemRequiem (Mozart)The Requiem Mass in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791 and left unfinished at the composer's death. A completion by Franz Xaver Süssmayr was delivered to Count Franz von Walsegg, who had anonymously commissioned the piece for a requiem Mass to commemorate the...
(b. 1763) - November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich TitovAlexey Nikolayevich TitovAlexey Nikolayevich Titov , was a Russian composer and violinist.Titov was born and died in St. Petersburg. Alongside his musical career, Titov was a major general in the Russian cavalry. His music, most of which is for the stage , was primarily written for local St. Petersburg theater and dance...
, violinist and composer (b. 1769) - date unknown
- James HookJames Hook (composer)James Hook was an English composer and organist.-Life and musical career:He was born in Norwich, the son of James Hook, a razor-grinder and cutler. He displayed a remarkable musical talent at an early age, playing the harpsichord by the age of four and performing concertos in public at age six...
, composer (b. 1746) - Syama SastriSyama SastriSyama Sastri is one of the most renowned composers of Carnatic music. He was the eldest of the so-called Trinity of Carnatic music, Tyagaraja and Muthuswami Dikshitar being the other two. A major source for his biography is a chapter in P. Sambamoorthy's book, Great Composers, 69-94...
, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic musicTrinity of Carnatic musicThe outstanding group of composer-musicians of Carnatic music which included Tyāgarāja, Muthuswami Dikshitar and Syama Sastri, are commonly referred to as the Trinity of Carnatic music....
(b. 1762)
- James Hook