1845 in music
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- March 13 - Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
's Violin ConcertoViolin Concerto (Mendelssohn)Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 is his last large orchestral work. It forms an important part of the violin repertoire and is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos of all time...
is premièred in LeipzigLeipzigLeipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing... - April 21 - Albert LortzingAlbert LortzingGustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.-Biography:Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb Lortzing and Charlotte Sophie...
's operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
UndineUndine (Lortzing)Undine is an opera in four acts by Albert Lortzing. The German libretto was by the composer after Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué's story of the same name....
debuts in MagdeburgMagdeburgMagdeburg , is the largest city and the capital city of the Bundesland of Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Magdeburg is situated on the Elbe River and was one of the most important medieval cities of Europe....
. - June 4 - William FryWilliam FryWilliam Fry may refer to:*William Henry Fry , American composer*William Fry , Australian politician of Higinbotham Province, Victoria...
's opera Leonora debuts in Philadelphia. - July - Pas de QuatrePas de QuatrePas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at His Majestys Theatre to music composed by Cesare Pugni....
is premièred in London, bringing together four of the greatest ballerinas of the time: Lucile GrahnLucile GrahnLucile Alexia Grahn was the first internationally renowned Danish ballerina and one of the popular dancers of the Romantic ballet era....
, Carlotta GrisiCarlotta GrisiCarlotta Grisi, real name Caronne Adele Josephine Marie Grisi was an Italian ballet dancer born in Visinada, Istria . She was trained at the ballet school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and later with dancer/balletmaster Jules Perrot...
, Fanny CerritoFanny CerritoFanny Cerrito, originally Francesca Cerrito , was an Italian ballet dancer and choreographer.Born in Naples, she studied under Carlo Blasis and the French choreographers Jules Perrot and Arthur Saint-Léon, to the latter of whom she was married from 1845–1851. Notable roles included Ondine and a...
, and Marie TaglioniMarie TaglioniMarie Taglioni was a famous Italian/Swedish ballerina of the Romantic ballet era, a central figure in the history of European dance.-Biography:...
. - October 19 - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
's operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
Tannhäuser debuts at the DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
Hoftheater. - Composer Henry Hugo PiersonHenry Hugo PiersonHenry Hugh Pearson was an English composer resident from 1845 in Germany. He is also known as Edgar Mansfeld and, when living in Germany, as Heinrich Hugo Pierson. He had success in his adopted country with his operas and songs but little in his own, and his music is now rarely performed...
goes to live in Germany. - The Hutchinson Family SingersHutchinson Family SingersThe Hutchinson Family Singers were a 19th-century American family singing group who became the most popular American entertainers of the 1840s. The group sang in four-part harmony a repertoire of political, social, comic, sentimental and dramatic works, and are considered by many to be the first...
tour England with Frederick DouglassFrederick DouglassFrederick Douglass was an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement, gaining note for his dazzling oratory and incisive antislavery writing...
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Opera
- W. H. Fry - Leonora
- Albert LortzingAlbert LortzingGustav Albert Lortzing was a German composer, actor and singer. He is considered to be the main representative of the German Spieloper, a form similar to the French opéra comique, which grew out of the Singspiel.-Biography:Lortzing was born in Berlin to Johann Gottlieb Lortzing and Charlotte Sophie...
- Undine - Temistocle SoleraTemistocle SoleraTemistocle Solera was an Italian opera composer and librettist.He was born at Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughout his life he actively participated in anti-Austrian resistance. At one point, he was incarcerated for his...
- La Hermana de Palayo - Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas...
- TannhäuserTannhäuser (opera)Tannhäuser is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two German legends of Tannhäuser and the song contest at Wartburg...
Births
- February 25 - Eugène Goossens, pèreEugène Goossens, pèreEugène Goossens was a Belgian conductor.-Biography:He was born in Bruges and studied music as a child at the Church of Notre Dame, Bruges, then at the Bruges Conservatoire...
, conductor (d. 1906) - March 14 - August BungertAugust BungertAugust Bungert was a German opera composer and poet.-Early life:Bungert was born in Mülheim. His unusual musical talent was noticed and nurtured at high school by his teacher, Heinrich Kufferath, the brother of the composer Ferdinand Kufferath...
, opera composer (d. 1915) - May 12 - Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
, composer (d. 1924) - June 13 - Effie GermonEffie GermonEffie Germon was an American stage actress of the late 19th century from Augusta, Georgia. She excelled as a soubrette. She was the daughter of actors Greene C. Germon and Jane Andrews. Her father was the original impersonator of Uncle Tom at the Chatham Theatre...
, actress and singer (d. 1914) - July 6 - Ángela PeraltaÁngela PeraltaÁngela Peralta was an operatic soprano of international fame and a leading figure in the operatic life of 19th century Mexico...
, operatic soprano (d. 1883) - August 10 - Abay Qunanbayuli, poet, composer and philosopher (d. 1904)
- August 25 - King Ludwig II of BavariaLudwig II of BavariaLudwig II was King of Bavaria from 1864 until shortly before his death. He is sometimes called the Swan King and der Märchenkönig, the Fairy tale King...
, the great patron of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerWilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director, philosopher, music theorist, poet, essayist and writer primarily known for his operas... - November 6 - Beniamino CesiBeniamino CesiBeniamino Cesi was a celebrated Italian concert pianist and teaching professor of piano, who taught many of the most distinguished early 20th century pianists of the Neapolitan school, so that his influence spread very widely.- Training :Born in Naples, Cesi began his studies with his father, and...
, pianist (d. 1907) - date unknown
- Antonio GalassiAntonio GalassiAntonio F. Galassi was an Italian baritone who made his New York debut at Academy of Music during its 1878-79 season and remained there through 1884. He was considered a great baritone, popular and fiery, right until 1883 when, according to some sources, he lost his voice during performance of I...
, operatic baritone (d. 1904) - Alphonse HasselmansAlphonse HasselmansAlphonse Hasselmans was a Belgian-born French harpist, composer, and pedagogue.-Biography:Hasselmans was born in Liège, Belgium. He composed several dozen original solos for harp, of which his most famous is a concert étude entitled La Source , op. 44...
, harpist and composer - Edward LloydEdward Lloyd (tenor)Edward Lloyd was a British tenor singer who excelled in concert and oratorio performance, and was recognised as a legitimate successor of John Sims Reeves as the foremost tenor exponent of that genre during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.- Early training in choral tradition :Edward...
, concert tenor (d. 1927)
- Antonio Galassi
- probable - Madeline SchillerMadeline SchillerMadeline Schiller was an English-born pianist.After early studies in London with Benjamin Isaacs, Julius Benedict, and Charles Hallé, in 1860 she went to Leipzig where she studied with Ignaz Moscheles. She made her debut there on January 23, 1862, playing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 1...
, pianist (d. 1911)
Deaths
- May 11 - Carl FiltschCarl FiltschCarl Filtsch was a Transylvanian pianist and composer. He was a child prodigy, and student of Frédéric Chopin. -Life and education:...
, pianist and composer (b. 1830) - July 15 (or September 29) - J. Augustine WadeJ. Augustine WadeJoseph Augustine Wade was an Irish composer and conductor. Wade was popular in his lifetime, and he was quoted in the 1919 Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.-Life and career:...
, conductor and composer (b. 1796) - September 23 - Matija AhacelMatija AhacelMatija Ahacel, also known in German as Matthias Achazel , born Matija Kobentar, was a Carinthian Slovene philologist, publicist, and collector of folk songs....
, collector of folk songs (b. 1779) - October 7 - Isabella ColbranIsabella ColbranIsabella Colbran was a Spanish opera singer, who was known in her native country as Isabel Colbrandt. Many sources note her as a dramatic coloratura soprano but, some believe that she was a mezzo-soprano with a high extension, a soprano sfogato...
, sopranoSopranoA soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
and first wife of Gioacchino 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...
(b. 1785) - October 16 - Martha LlwydMartha LlwydMartha Llwyd was a Welsh poet and hymnist, born in the small Carmarthenshire village of Cynwyl Elfed.Despite being unable to read or write, Martha Llwyd composed many hymns and poems which she kept in her memory and taught to others. Her hymns became very popular and were sung far and wide during...
, hymn-writer (b. 1766) - November 2 - Chrétien UrhanChrétien UrhanChrétien Urhan was a violinist, organist, composer and player of the viola and the viola d'amore.- Career outline :His father first introduced him to the violin...
, violinist and organist (b. 1790) - December 2 - Simon MayrSimon MayrJohann Simon Mayr , also known in Italian as Giovanni Simone Mayr or Simone Mayr was a German composer.- Life :...
, composer (b. 1763) - December 25 - Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst BachWilhelm Friedrich Ernst BachWilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach was the eldest son of Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach and the only grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach to gain fame as a composer. He was music director to Frederick William II of Prussia...
, composer (b. 1759) - date unknown - Alexander JuhanAlexander JuhanAlexander Juhan was a violinist, composer, and conductor. He was one of the first American composers of the United States. A violinist from Charleston, Juhan moved to Philadelphia in 1783 where he worked with Henri Capron, Alexander Reinagle, and William Brown in Philadelphia from 1786...
, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1765)