1834 in music
# 1834 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1834.

## Events

* September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
* October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
* Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
* Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.

## Publications

* Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon
* J.C. Maugin – Manuel du Luthier

## Popular music

* "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)

## Classical music

* Charles-Valentin Alkan – Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
* William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor
* Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
* Ole Bull
   * Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
   * Quartet for Solo Violin
* Norbert Burgmuller
   * Rhapsodie in B minor for Piano, Op.13
   * Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
* Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
* Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
* Felicien David
   * Fantasia harabi
   * Égyptienne
   * Vieux Caire
* Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
   * Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
   * Thème allemand varié, Op.9
   * Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
* Friedrich Kalkbrenner
   * Les Soupirs, Op.121
   * Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
* Karol Kurpinski – Polonaise in C major
* Franz Paul Lachner
   * Waldklänge, Op.28
   * Symphony No.3, Op.41
* Luigi Legnani – Grande Fantasia, Op.61
* Franz Liszt – Apparations
* Giacomo Meyerbeer
   * Le moine
   * Rachel à Nephtali
* James Nares – The souls of the righteous
* George Onslow
   * 3 String Quartets, Op.46
   * String Quartet No.22, Op.47
* Ludwig Schunke
   * Caprice No.1, Op.9
   * Rondeau brillant, Op.11
* František Škroup – Kde domov můj?
* Louis Spohr – Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
* Mikhail Vysotsky – Fuga of Bach

## Opera

* Adolphe Adam – Le Chalet, premiered September 25 in Paris
* Daniel Auber – Lestocq, premiered May 24 in Paris
* John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
* Gaetano Donizetti – Gemma di Vergy, premiered December 26 in Milan
* Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
* Saverio Mercadante
   * Emma d'Antiochia, premiered March 8 in Venice
   * Uggiero il danese

## Births

* January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
* January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
* January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
* January 23 – Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
* January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
* February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
* March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
* March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
* March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
* April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
* April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
* May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
* June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
* June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
* June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
* August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
* August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
* August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
* August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
* October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
* October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
* October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
* October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
* November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
* November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
* November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
* November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
* December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
* December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
* date unknown
   * David Braham, composer (died 1905)
   * Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)

## Deaths

* January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
* February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
* April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
* June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
* September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
* August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
* October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
* December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)
* date unknown
   * Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
   * August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
   * Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)
