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Overview of the events of 1849 in music
Events
April 16 –
Giacomo Meyerbeer 's grand opera
Le prophète is premièred (after a decade in preparation) by the
Paris Opera at the
Salle Le Peletier with
Pauline Viardot (who has collaborated extensively in the production) in the mezzo-soprano role, her first with the Opera. Stage effects include electric light, ballet on roller skates and the use of
saxhorns . The audience includes
Napoleon III (new Emperor of France),
Berlioz , the
terminally ill
Chopin , and
Turgenev . Its world tour begins on July 24 in London.
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May 3 –
9 –
Richard Wagner is an active participant in the
May Uprising in Dresden , suppressed by the
Kingdom of Saxony , and is forced to flee to
Zürich .
September 22 –
Johann Strauss I fails to turn up to a banquet in honour of Field Marshal
Joseph Radetzky von Radetz , where he is expected to perform a new work. His absence is explained by the fact that he had contracted scarlet fever from one of his illegitimate children while working on the new composition; he dies a few days later in Vienna aged 45.
October 30 – Funeral of
Frédéric Chopin (who has died aged 39, probably of
pericarditis aggravated by
tuberculosis ) at
La Madeleine, Paris ,
[1] followed by burial of his body at
Père Lachaise Cemetery .
November – Hungarian pianist and composer
Stephen Heller makes his first visit to London on a concert tour.
The autograph manuscript of
Bach 's
Brandenburg Concertos is rediscovered in the archives of Brandenburg by
Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn .
Classical music
Hector Berlioz –
Te Deum
Jakob Dont – 24 Etudes or Caprices, Op. 35
Stephen Heller – 25 Etudes, Op. 47
Karol Lipinski – Fantaisie sur des airs napolitains nationaux, Op. 31
Franz Liszt
Hans Christian Lumbye
Amalia Vals
Caroline Polka Mazurka
Ludvig Norman – Piano Trio No. 1 in D major, Op. 4
Robert Schumann
Johann Strauss, Jr .
Annika-Quadrille, Op. 53
Burschen-Lieder Walzer, Op. 55
Einheits-Klänge Walzer, Op. 62
Fantasiebilder Walzer, Op. 64
D'Woaldbuama, Op. 66
Opera
Popular music
Births
May 25 –
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins , composer and pianist (d. 1908)
May 26 –
Hubert von Herkomer , artist and composer (d. 1914)
July 4 –
Antonina Miliukova , wife of
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1917)
July 18 –
Anna Judic , entertainer (d. 1911)
July 22 –
Géza Zichy , disabled pianist (d. 1924)
August 18 –
Benjamin Godard , violinist and composer (d. 1895)
August 20 –
Selina Dolaro , actress and singer (d. 1889)
September 22 –
Olena Falkman , concert vocalist (d. 1928)
December 4 –
Ernesto Köhler , flautist and composer (d. 1907)
December 14 –
François Cellier , conductor and composer (d. 1914)
Deaths
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References