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1800 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1800.

Events

 * January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), is premièred in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.
 * February 22 – Lorenzo da Ponte, best known as Mozart's former librettist, goes bankrupt in London; his partner in the publishing business, Jan Ladislav Dussek, has already gone into hiding.
 * March 28 – Anton Weidinger gives the first public performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major at the Vienna Burgtheater.
 * April 2 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 debuts at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
 * April 21 – Haydn's Creation is performed in London. In the interval, Samuel Wesley plays one of his own organ concertos.
 * June 2 – The premiere of Cesare in Farmacusa, with music by Antonio Salieri and words by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, takes place at the Kärntnertortheater, Vienna.
 * September 6 – During Lord Nelson's visit to Eisenstadt, his companion Emma, Lady Hamilton, performs Haydn's Arianna a Naxos and The Battle of the Nile, with Haydn himself on piano.
 * September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.
 * October 8 – Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz pays Ludwig van Beethoven 200 florins for his String Quartets.
 * October 14 – Nine-year-old prodigy Jakob Meyer Beer makes his début on the concert platform, playing a Mozart piano concerto; Jakob later reinvents himself as Giacomo Meyerbeer.
 * December 1 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel establish the Bureau de Musique, a music publishing company, in Leipzig.

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Symphony No. 1
 * Piano Concerto No. 3 (composed; first performance in 1803)
 * Piano Sonata in B-flat Major Op. 22
 * Piano Sonata in A-flat Major Op. 26
 * François Adrien Boieldieu – Harp concerto in C Major
 * Bartolomeo Campagnoli – 6 Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 10
 * Adelaide Suzanne Camille Delaval – Prelude, Divertimento and Waltz, Op. 3
 * Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonata No.18, Op. 44
 * Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari – 3 Trio Sonatas, Op. 25
 * Adalbert Gyrowetz – Divertissement, Op. 50
 * Louis-Emmanuel Jadin – 3 String Quartets, Livre 1
 * Leopold Kozeluch – Three Grand Sonatas for piano accompanied by violin and cello
 * Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 18
 * Wenzel Thomas Matiegka – Fantaisie in C major, Op. 4
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Der Jubel oder Juchhei (liederspiel)
 * Carl Maria von Weber – 6 Variations sur un thème original, Op. 2 1832

Opera

 * François Adrien Boieldieu – Le Calife de Bagdad
 * Luigi Cherubini – Les deux journées
 * Ferdinando Paer – La testa riscaldata, La sonnambula, Ginevra degli Almieri and Poche ma buone
 * William Reeve – Paul and Virginia
 * Antonio Salieri – Cesare in Farmacusa and L'Angiolina
 * Carl Maria Von Weber – Das stumme Waldmädchen

Methods and theory writings

 * Anton Bemetzrieder – A Complete Treatise on Music (London: Thomas Rickaby)
 * Johann Dalberg – Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der Harmonie (Erfurt: Beyer und Maring)
 * Gottlieb Graupner – A New Preceptor for the German Flute (Boston: G. Graupner)
 * P. Hoey – A Plain and Concise Method of Learning the Gregorian Note (Dublin: P. Wogan)
 * Samuel Holyoke – The Instrumental Assistant (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet)
 * William Shield – An Introduction to Harmony (London: printed for the Author, sold by G. G. & J. Robinson)
 * Georg Joseph Vogler
 * Choral-System (Kopenhagen: Haly'schen Musikhandlung)
 * Musik-skole (Kiøbenhavn: Niels Christensen)

Births

 * January 1
 * Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer (died 1886)
 * Johann Kulik, luthier (died 1872)
 * January 11 – Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Italian operatic soprano (died 1853)
 * January 14 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, music researcher and composer (died 1877)
 * March 5 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, librettist and philosopher (died 1875)
 * May 5 – Raymond Brucker, librettist and writer (died 1875)
 * June 24 – Antonio James Oury (Anna Caroline Oury), composer and pianist (died 1880)
 * July 30 – Alexander Veltman, lyricist and writer (died 1870)
 * July 31 – Michel Masson, lyricist and writer (died 1883)
 * August 26 – Joseph Christoph Kessler, German pianist and composer (died 1872)
 * October 12 – Francesco Florimo, composer and music historian (died 1888)
 * November 6 – Eduard Grell, composer and conductor (died 1886)
 * December 1 – Mihály Vörösmarty, lyricist and poet (died 1855)
 * December 4 – Emil Aarestrup, lyricist and poet (died 1856)
 * date unknown
 * Eduard Brendler, composer (died 1831)
 * Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan, French operatic soprano (died 1865)
 * Pavel Mochalov, lyricist and actor (died 1848)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian castrato and singing teacher (born 1714)
 * January 6 – William Jones, music theorist and clergyman (born 1726)
 * March 9 – Dominique Della-Maria, composer and mandolin virtuoso (born 1768)
 * April 29 – Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer (born 1733)
 * May 7 – Niccolò Piccinni, composer (born 1728)
 * June 6 – Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer (born 1771)
 * June 10 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, composer (born 1747)
 * June 11 – Margarethe Danzi, German composer and soprano (born 1768)
 * August 3 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer (born 1736)
 * August 4 – Julije Bajamonti, composer and historian (born 1744)
 * September 8 – Pierre Gaviniès, French violinist and composer (born 1728)
 * September 26 – William Billings, America's first major composer (born 1746)
 * September 27 – Hyacinthe Jadin, French composer (born 1776; tuberculosis)

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1835 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1835.

Events

 * January 2 – The Neue Leipziger Zeitschrift für Musik, edited by Robert Schumann, changes its name to Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
 * January 24 – Postponed premiere Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani in Théâtre-Italien Paris
 * January 25 – Hector Berlioz becomes resident music critic for the Journal des débats.
 * May 4 – Samuel Sebastian Wesley, son of the composer Samuel Wesley, grandson of Charles Wesley, and organist of Hereford Cathedral, elopes with and marries Mary Anne Merewether, sister of the cathedral's dean.
 * June 4 – Franz Liszt joins his mistress, Marie d'Agoult, in Basel, Switzerland.
 * July 8 – Dan Emmett is discharged from the US Army and begins his career as a blackface banjoist and singer.
 * October – Contralto Clorinda Corradi relocates to Havana, Cuba.
 * November 9 – At a concert in Johann Sebastian Bach's home city of Leipzig, Felix Mendelssohn, Clara Wieck and Louis Rakeman perform Bach's Concerto in D minor for three keyboards and orchestra.
 * November 28 – 25-year-old Robert Schumann and 16-year-old Clara Wieck begin their romance.
 * December 14 – The St James's Theatre, London, opens with an "operatic burletta", Agnes Sorel.
 * Soprano Fanny Corri-Paltoni makes her last known stage appearance, at Alessandria in Italy.
 * Gioachino Rossini completes Les soirées musicales which includes the patter song "La Danza".
 * Music department added to the Prussian Academy of Arts in Berlin.

Publications

 * Luigi Cherubini – Cours de contrepoint et de fugue

Classical music

 * Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No. 1
 * John Field – Nocturne No.14 in C major, H.60
 * Mikhail Glinka – Mazurka in F major
 * Fanny Hensel
 * Wandl’ich In Dem Wald Des Abends, H-U 283
 * Ich Stand Gelehnet An Den Mast, H-U 284
 * über Allen Gipfeln Ist Ruh’, H-U 285
 * Wenn Der Frühling Kommt. H-U 286
 * Der Strauß H-U 287
 * Franz Liszt
 * Duo (Sonata) on Polish Themes, for violin and piano, S.127
 * Réminiscences de La juive, for solo piano, S.409a
 * Otto Nicolai – Gran marcia funebre
 * Ferdinand Ries – Symphony No. 7
 * Robert Schumann – Carnaval, Op. 9
 * Alicia Anne Spottiswoode – "Annie Laurie"
 * Giuseppe Verdi – Messa solenne (Messa di Gloria)
 * Samuel Sebastian Wesley – Larghetto for Organ in F minor

Opera

 * Princess Amalie of Saxony – La casa disabitata
 * Daniel Auber – Le cheval de bronze
 * Vincenzo Bellini – I puritani
 * Gaetano Donizetti
 * Lucia di Lammermoor
 * Maria Stuarda
 * Fromental Halévy
 * L'éclair
 * La Juive
 * Giuseppe Persiani – Ines de Castro
 * Mikhail Zagoskin – Askold's Grave (Аскольдова могила, Askol’dova mogila)

Births

 * January 14 – Felix Otto Dessoff, conductor and composer (died 1892)
 * January 23 – August Lanner, composer
 * February 14 – Louis Gallet, librettist (died 1898)
 * February 24 – John Henry Martin, band instrument manufacturer (died 1910)
 * March 1 – Ebenezer Prout, composer (died 1909)
 * March 15 – Eduard Strauss, composer (died 1916)
 * March 24 – August Winding, composer (died 1899)
 * March 30 – Bernhard Scholz, composer (died 1916)
 * July 10 – Henryk Wieniawski, violinist and composer (died 1880)
 * August 12 – Peter Piel, composer (died 1904)
 * August 20 – Oscar Stoumon, music critic and composer (died 1900)
 * September 28 – Jean Louis Gobbaerts, pianist (died 1886)
 * October 7 – Felix Draeseke, composer (died 1913)
 * October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, composer (died 1921)
 * October 11 – Theodore Thomas, conductor (died 1905)
 * November 25 – Joseph Glæser, organist and composer (died 1891)
 * December 1 – Carl Johan Frydensberg, composer (died 1904)
 * December 12 – Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer (died 1908)
 * date unknown – Abu Khalil Qabbani, Syrian dramatist and composer (died 1902)

Deaths

 * February 19 – Amzi Chapin, cabinetmaker, singing-school teacher and shape note composer
 * April 23 – Joseph Antonio Emidy, violinist and composer (born 1775)
 * April 25 – François Tourte, bowmaker (born 1747)
 * May 9 – Sebastian Mayer, operatic bass (born 1773)
 * August 3 – Wenzel Müller, composer (born 1767)
 * August 10 – Claus Schall, violinist and composer (born 1757)
 * September 23 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer (born 1801)
 * October 21 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, youngest of the Carnatic music composer trinity (born 1775)
 * November 19
 * Thomas Linley the elder, musician and founder of a musical dynasty (born 1733)
 * Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, banker and father of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn (born 1776)

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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)

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Samuel J. R. McMillan

Samuel James Renwick McMillan (February 22, 1826 – October 3, 1897) was an American lawyer, judge and Republican politician. He served on the Minnesota District Court, the Minnesota Supreme Court and as U.S. Senator from Minnesota.

Life and career
McMillan was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania in 1826. His parents Thomas Long and Jane McMillan (née Gormly) were of Scottish and Irish ancestry. He attended the University of Pittsburgh (then known as the Western University of Pennsylvania) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and studied law under Edwin M. Stanton, graduating in 1846. In 1850 he married Harriet Butler. McMillan and his wife moved to Minnesota in 1852, initially settling in Stillwater and later moving to St. Paul.

When Minnesota achieved statehood in 1858 McMillan was named as the first judge of the newly formed Minnesota District Court. During the Dakota War of 1862 McMillan served as a Second Lieutenant in a militia unit known as the Stillwater Frontier Guards which was only briefly active. In 1864 he was appointed to the Minnesota Supreme Court as one of two new justices to replace the recently resigned Justices Charles Eugene Flandrau and Isaac Atwater. In 1874 he was promoted to Chief Justice to replace Christopher G. Ripley who had also resigned. In 1875, the Minnesota Legislature elected him to serve as U.S. Senator. He served in the 44th, 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th, and 49th United States Congresses from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1887.

McMillan did not stand for re-election in 1886 and returned to his law practice after the end of his term. He died in Saint Paul on October 3, 1897. He is buried in Oakland Cemetery in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Samuel James Renwick McMillan family papers, 1818-1956. Minnesota Historical Society
Ravi D. Goel collection of Samuel James Renwick McMillan family papers, 1818-1956, Minnesota Historical Society. The collection includes photos, personal letters, transcribed documents, and printed publications from 1818 to 1956. These papers span five generations & include a direct connection to the Revolutionary War and the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee. A collection overview and inventory is available via this blog post)

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List of Oregon ballot measures

The list of Oregon ballot measures lists all statewide ballot measures to the present.

In Oregon, the initiative and referendum process dates back to 1902, when the efforts of the Direct Legislation League prompted amending the Oregon Constitution for the first time since 1859. The process of initiative and referendum became nationally known as the Oregon System.

Types
There are three types of ballot measures: initiatives, referendums, and referrals. Initiatives and referendums may be placed on the ballot if their supporters gather enough signatures from Oregon voters; the number of signatures is a percentage based on the number of voters casting ballots in the most recent election for the Governor of Oregon.

 * Initiative: Any issue may be placed before the voters, either amending the Constitution or revising or adding to the Oregon Revised Statutes. Constitutional initiatives require the signature of eight percent of recent voters to qualify for the ballot; statutory reforms require six percent.
 * Referendum: The public may act to undo any bill passed by the Oregon Legislative Assembly, by putting a referendum on the ballot. A referendum requires four percent of recent voters to qualify for the ballot.
 * Legislative referral: The Legislative Assembly may refer any bill it passes to the public for approval, and they must do so for any amendment to the Constitution. Additionally, the Legislative Assembly may refer revisions to the Constitution; a revision differs from an amendment in that it may alter multiple existing provisions of the Constitution.

The constitutional foundation for ballot measures (and legislation produced by the Oregon Legislative Assembly) may be found in Article IV of the Oregon Constitution, and Chapter 250 of the Oregon Revised Statutes relates to initiative and referendum as well.

The Oregon Blue Book, produced by the Oregon government, maintains a list similar to this one.

1972

 * 7 — Repealed Governors Retirement Act that was created through House Bill 1728 in 1971 that provided lifetime pensions for Oregon Governors who served at least two years. The measure passed with little objection.

1988
May 17, 1988 primary election

November 8, 1988 general election

1989
May 16 Special Election

June 27 Special Election

November
Note: Detailed information about elections from 1995 to the present, including ballot measure text, sponsorship, and arguments for and against, may be found at the Oregon Secretary of State's web site.

November
November 5 General Election

November
General Election: Detailed information on Measures 14-18 and 21–27, and official election results available at the Secretary of State's web site.

November
In the fall election, Measure 36 (outlawing gay marriage) dominated public attention: 81,667 (or 4.7%) more votes were cast on Measure 36 than the average of all other measures on the ballot. Measure 37 (restricting land use regulation) was contentious before the election, and became more controversial after the fact, as state and local governments attempted to implement it.

Two other measures passed in 2004, both referred by the Legislature for the general election, and neither one drawing any opposition in the Voters' Pamphlet. Measure 31 made it possible to postpone certain elections in the event of a candidate's death, and Measure 32 changed the way revenue from mobile home taxes is handled.

2006
In 2006, voters considered 11 statewide ballot measures. All were placed on the ballot by initiative.

Nearly all the measures were defeated. Measures extending prescription drug pricing benefits (Measure 44) and restricting the government's power of eminent domain (39) were the only ones that passed without qualification; a campaign finance reform system (47) passed as well, but a companion measure (46) that would have provided necessary constitutional support for it failed.

Out-of-state interests spent millions of dollars supporting—and in one significant case, opposing—Oregon ballot measures. None of these big-money measures passed; in fact, Measures 39 and 44 passed without drawing any organized opposition.

Unsuccessful measures
Measures 41 and 48 aimed to restrict the amount of money the State government could raise and spend, respectively. They were both mostly funded by the Taxpayers Association of Oregon, which in turn received nearly all its funding from Illinois-based Americans for Limited Government. Opposition to these two measures was paired as well, spending $1.9 million to defeat the two measures.

Measure 42 was promoted by conservative ballot measure activist Bill Sizemore. Sizemore broke with his custom by promoting a consumer-oriented bill, which would have outlawed the use of credit data in determining insurance premiums. Opponents of the measure spent over $3.7 million (nearly all of which came from out of state), defeating the measure. Their advertising focused heavily on Sizemore's credibility. Sizemore did not run an active campaign promoting the measure. He and his longtime political ally Loren Parks were the only people to submit arguments in favor for the Voters' Guide.

Measure 45, almost entirely financed by $1.2 million from Illinois-based U.S. Term Limits, would have established strict term limits in the Oregon Legislative Assembly. Term limits had previously been in place in the late 1990s, but the prior law was declared unconstitutional by the Oregon Supreme Court. The measure failed.

Measures 46 and 47 were presented as a single package; 46 would have amended the Constitution to allow limitations on campaign financing (heavily favoring popular vote, and requiring a 75% vote for such changes in the Legislature); and 47 detailed specific limitations. Measure 47 passed, but in the absence of the kind of Constitutional support Measure 46 would have provided, it will have No effect. The campaigns both for and against this package were funded almost entirely from Oregon sources.

Measure 40 sought to require that judges of the Oregon Supreme Court be elected by district, rather than statewide.

Measure 43 sought to require parental notification in the event of certain teenage abortions. (Two measures restricting abortion were also rejected in the 1990 general election.)

Successful measures
Measure 39, described by its proponents as a natural extension of 2004's Measure 37, restricted the governments powers of eminent domain. Measure 44 extended a state prescription drug benefit, previously only available to seniors, to cover all uninsured Oregonians.

2007
In 2007, voters considered 2 statewide ballot measures.

May
Three measures (51, 52, and 53), all legislative referrals and all constitutional amendments, were on the May 2008 primary ballot. All three passed; the first two by wide margins, and Measure 53 by a margin so narrow that it triggered an automatic recount.

November
In November 2008, voters considered eight initiatives and four legislative referrals. The four referrals all passed, and the initiatives all failed.

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Complete
Can we please update the information past 2008, its been multiple years and some of the alst ballots are extremely important to our functioning as a modern state. I will work on it if I get the chance but in the meantime can someone please take some time to research and add the past few years, it would be awesome and is critical for this page. -michaelkemp2 161.38.218.188 (talk) 00:00, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

structure
It would be nice if there were a strong visual cue for measures that passed vs. failed, and those that amend the constitution vs. those that don't.

Not sure the best way to go about it, but I'll mull it over.

-Pete 20:02, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I found that the California page does this pretty well. I'm thinking a table would be best, with columns for number, pass/fail, constitutional/statutory, tax-increase(?), and description. -Pete 07:31, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Also, it would be good to come up with a standard "tense" that doesn't vary according to whether the measure passed or not. Instead of, for example, "would have amended" and "amended," maybe it would be best to just use the word "amend" - ? -Pete 23:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

results for 2006
Since the results are in, I'm moving the 2006 issues to the 2000's section, and stating which ones passed and failed. If the results turn out to be different in the morning, please change them. I am Girl 05:51, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Ballot Measure 6 (1922)
I believe there's a mistake in the description of Measure 6 (1922). According to the Wikipedia page about the court case involved (linked), the ballot initiative was merely an amendment to an existing statute. It appears to me that the existing statute is the one described here, erroneously.

I know nothing about this except what I've found on Wikipedia, and have no legal experience...I'll modify the content to match my understanding, but hope that better legal minds will come along to review this section!

-Pete 06:58, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Chart
I like the idea of putting every ballot measure in a chart like at the bottom of the page, except we definitely need to go with a new color scheme. I'd say red/green ala sports wins and losses (Like at 2006 Oregon State Beavers football team). I'd also support a "notes" column at the end to mention any particularly notable ballot measures (For instance, we can write "Oregon becomes the first state in the United States to legalize medical marijuana" next to that measure. VegaDark 00:58, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Red and green is an interesting idea, though mapping those to "win" and "lose" is highly POV.
 * My first impression about the shaded background is mixed: good for on screen viewing, but not obviously helpful for black and white printing. For that reason, the table without the "passed" column (on User:Peteforsyth/measurechart) is probably not a good idea. Also, it's no longer necessarily the case that 50 percent or more "yes" results in passage, at least on tax measures.
 * List of California ballot propositions 2000-present is minimalistic, simple and to-the-point: probably good enough. Though, for this kind of list, it seems way more useful with all the information in the list: votes counts, percentage, initiative/referendum, later overturned, etc. But only the measure number (plus wikilinkage) and a one sentence summary of the measure is great too. (I like both the vote counts and the percentage: supports different uses, but also the redundancy is a good sanity check.) —EncMstr 01:09, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Well, I wasn't implying we should say green = win red = loss, that would definitely be POV. I was thinking we could have it as green = passed, red = failed. VegaDark 01:20, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the quick feedback!! EncMstr, good points re: b/w printing and the double-majority for tax-related measures. Can you guys spell out what you'd like to see from color choice? I don't have a strong opinion, but I'm curious about your thinking. (I suppose leaving failed measures white could leave some ambiguity between "rejected" measures and "editor doesn't know." But I intend to have this list completed in the near future, and "Passed" measures have much more historical significance than "Rejected" ones, so I'm a little ambivalent about coloring the rejects.) Also: putting in ALL the information requested might be a little cumbersome on small monitors: Passed, Percentage, YES votes, NO votes, and a "notes of major significance" column. Doesn't mean I oppose it…but worth considering. -Pete 01:49, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Undecided if I like it, but this attempts to balance printing concerns with the desire to highlight new laws:
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! Measure !! Result !! Margin !! Summary
 * 39 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 67% || Restrict the use of Eminent Domain
 * 40 || fail || 5% || Restrict eligibility to the Oregon Supreme Court based on geographic origin
 * 41 || fail || 19.27% || Allow Federal Tax Credit on Oregon Taxes
 * 42 || fail || 8% || Ban credit reports in determining insurance premiums
 * 43 || fail || 27% || Require parental notification for abortions for girls aged 15-17
 * 44 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 73% || Extend discount prescription drug program to all Oregon citizens
 * 45 || fail || 28% || Require term limits for Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * 46 || fail || 18% || Permit laws that limit campaign contributions
 * 47 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }
 * Those are made up numbers for the percentages. I didn't find a good whole line color: various text was invisible or hard to read. Notice how the footnote next to 47's pass is nearly impossible to see. I fear that alternate stylesheets and skins might interact poorly too. —EncMstr 02:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 44 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 73% || Extend discount prescription drug program to all Oregon citizens
 * 45 || fail || 28% || Require term limits for Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * 46 || fail || 18% || Permit laws that limit campaign contributions
 * 47 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }
 * Those are made up numbers for the percentages. I didn't find a good whole line color: various text was invisible or hard to read. Notice how the footnote next to 47's pass is nearly impossible to see. I fear that alternate stylesheets and skins might interact poorly too. —EncMstr 02:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 47 || style="background:blue;color:white" | pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }
 * Those are made up numbers for the percentages. I didn't find a good whole line color: various text was invisible or hard to read. Notice how the footnote next to 47's pass is nearly impossible to see. I fear that alternate stylesheets and skins might interact poorly too. —EncMstr 02:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I like that approach. Footnotes could be put in a different column, and/or we could use a lighter color in the box, so that black text shows up better. For easy reference, here's a chart of HTML/wiki names for colors. -Pete 02:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * In the long run, I think there should be a separate "Notable Oregon ballot measures", which would be text-based, without all the charts. In the meantime, a brief introduction before each decade's list could be a good place for extra-notable features. -Pete 03:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

 * @_@If we're going to fancy it up, I prefer the tables over the minimalist approach. In either case I like the idea of red and green, but having read all the above I can see the limitations. EncMstr's approach seems handy and easiest on my eyes (except for that pesky footnote), perhaps adding "(amends constitution)" at the end of the summary where applicable? The above comment by Pete makes sense, my only caveat being how will someone find the "greatest hits" article? Perhaps add it to the newly minted Politics of Oregon article? Katr67 04:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks to you all for the feedback. On second thought, I think "Notable Oregon legislation" would be a better complementary article - so it could include other laws like the Bottle Bill. Some day…meanwhile, I'll keep pecking away at this list! -Pete 20:08, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
 * New column proposed: There should be a column indicating which measures were referred by the Legislature. I'd like to better understand the various ways measures can make it to the ballot though, before making that change. -Pete 19:44, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Colors or check/X mark?
I have been working on the individual measure articles, and have tweaked the referendum box templates and the referendum infobox templates. In those I leveraged the green "check mark", and red "X-mark" to visually denote pass or fail (the terminology in the results/votes charts being "yes" or "no". The green and red color scheme being carried over into county result state maps that another user began creating (example pages of a passed ballot measure infobox here and a rejected ballot measure here).

Yes icon and No icon

I recommend that we either adopt the green and red color schemes, or the inclusion of the green "check mark" and the red "x mark" icons over a white cell background. I suggest the later is the most advantageous since blue and red are partisan colors in recent decades and the icons with the red and green (as opposed to background color fields) denote a yes/no (go/stop) and when used in conjunction with the map, do not denote a POV pr partisan visual cue, but a pass/fail quick and easy read. The icons also have the critical advantage of being printable on a black and white laser printer and effectively convey the same type of visual distinction between result status. Here is the above example with the icons used:

Thoughts? Lestatdelc (talk) 06:43, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I think that works quite well. Great suggestion! —EncMstr (talk) 07:43, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I would tweak the above a bit, to better balance the the visual weight so the eye better differentiates between the two. This would probably work better:

 * {| class="wikitable"

! Measure !! Result !! Margin !! Summary
 * 39
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px]] pass || 67% || Restrict the use of Eminent Domain
 * 40
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 5% || Restrict eligibility to the Oregon Supreme Court based on geographic origin
 * 41
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 19.27% || Allow Federal Tax Credit on Oregon Taxes
 * 42
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 8% || Ban credit reports in determining insurance premiums
 * 43
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 27% || Require parental notification for abortions for girls aged 15-17
 * 44
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px]] pass || 73% || Extend discount prescription drug program to all Oregon citizens
 * 45
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 28% || Require term limits for Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * 46
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 18% || Permit laws that limit campaign contributions
 * 47
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px]] pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }
 * 45
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 28% || Require term limits for Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * 46
 * [[Image:X_mark.svg|12px]] fail || 18% || Permit laws that limit campaign contributions
 * 47
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px]] pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }
 * [[Image:Yes_check.svg|15px]] pass || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }

 * Better? Lestatdelc (talk) 08:24, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I looked at the rendered result for quite awhile to see any difference: pass is offset somewhat further right from the checkmark. Pretty subtle. Is that the intent? —EncMstr (talk) 08:36, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I noticed that too. It wasn't "intentional" per se, but was just an artifact of making the red-check marks smaller to balance their visual weight. If there is a painless what to make the trailing text ("pass" and "fail" align, that would be good. Lestatdelc (talk) 12:23, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I like this, too. Good work! (I also have trouble seeing the difference between the two sizes.) We should probably use templates, like ❌ (Xmark), which would make tweaks like this easier to make in the future (and keep the size of this file down a bit too.) We could make our own, like say XmarkORballot, to have finer control over the sizes, etc. (Also note templates like (done-t), which use the text character checkmark, rather than relying on an image file). -Pete (talk) 20:28, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Good suggestions. How's this?
 * {| class="wikitable"

! Measure !! Result !! Margin !! width=35|Summary ! 39 ! 40 ! 41 ! 42 ! 43 ! 44 ! 45 ! 46 ! 47
 * ✅ || 67% || Restrict the use of Eminent Domain
 * ❌ || 5% || Restrict eligibility to the Oregon Supreme Court based on geographic origin
 * ❌ || 19.27% || Allow Federal Tax Credit on Oregon Taxes
 * ❌ || 8% || Ban credit reports in determining insurance premiums
 * ❌ || 27% || Require parental notification for abortions for girls aged 15-17
 * ✅ || 73% || Extend discount prescription drug program to all Oregon citizens
 * ❌ || 28% || Require term limits for Oregon Legislative Assembly
 * ❌ || 18% || Permit laws that limit campaign contributions
 * ✅ || 63% || Revise campaign finance laws to limit or prohibit campaign contributions for state and local elections
 * }

 * Better? Lestatdelc (talk) 12:23, 26 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I like the way that looks, Lestatdelc. I'm split on text versus images, but I like that "pass" is in bold. Here are some things I think would make everything look better:

 * Align the measure numbers center-wise.
 * If it's possible, line up the decimals of the margin figures.
 * Add a bit of padding, so it doesn't look like the text is squeezed in. This is especially noticeable in the cell for Measure 41's margin of nonpassage.

 * — Athelwulf [T]/[C] 01:58, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I adjusted the bottom chart above to center the measure number (and bold it as well). What do you think? -Pete (talk) 11:04, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Also, relating to padding -- if we want to have consistent column widths from one table to the next (suggested elsewhere, below), these two issues could be dealt with together. -Pete (talk) 11:06, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I like. Can we define the width and padding with HTML/CSS for each table? That's the only way I know of, off the top of my head, that will make everything consistent.— Athelwulf [T]/[C] 19:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

 * You can define it in the header cell for each column (or any cell, I think). I made a (rather extreme) example above, making the "summary" field 35 px wide. You can do it as percentages too. -Pete (talk) 19:33, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

reverse order?
I'd like to reverse the order of this page, so more recent measures are listed first, and oldest last. Any objections or concerns? -Pete 03:11, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

 * It makes a certain amount of sense, though I notice the Washington and California articles are in chronological order. Why do you want to reverse it? —EncMstr 05:25, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I was thinking that more recent measures would be more frequently of interest. But, it now occurs to me that it will quickly grow to be overly long - I'm currently working on the 1990s, and ultimately want to include all measures. So maybe the better way to go is to split it out, like the California page, by decade.

 * Another possibility would be to keep this one literally a list (in table format), in whichever order, and put the text-based intros in their own article, by decade.

 * An advantage of that is that they could all be combined into one massive table, and by sorting, readers could compare vote totals and percentages across decades.

 * Still sifting all those possibilities out, so I'll hold off on making any changes for now. Any suggestions welcome though!

 * Finally, I'm thinking it's about time somebody made a template for ballot measures in the US, so it's easy to find similar measures from other states. There's some good info at Direct democracy page that could be rolled in.

 * -Pete 05:44, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Potential reliable sources
Transcript from the NewsHour from 1998: Initiative Overload -Pete 00:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

lists of state (ballot measures OR propositions OR referendums OR questions OR initiatives)
Scarcely noticeable in the subsection above, Pete says somebody [should make] a template for ballot measures in the US, so it's easy to find similar measures from other states.

I set out to do this and learned quite a bit in the process: I was seriously tempted to clean up some of the worst, create some organizing list articles, suggest on talk pages they get to work, and pepper them with fact tags. But I think I appreciate home all the more, and that's good enough. —EncMstr 09:43, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Oregon has—by far—the most prolific, in depth, and well organized election articles. Ours are extremely fact-based in comparison to what is out there.
 * Most election articles for other states are year-specific, and seem to have been written by various politicians' staff.
 * Oregon has unique patterns of thought regarding elections: we generally regard all the items on one election day's ballot as "an election". Evidently people in most states think of each item as a separate "election", so there are multiple elections on a state ballot. This leads to a confusing double-definition/ambiguity of the term in their articles' writing.
 * Pete's suggested Direct democracy article says that ballot measure-like processes are permitted in 18, 21, 24, or 18 states: 18 allow initiative constitutional amendments, 21 allow initiative statute law, 24 allow referendum statute law, and 18 allow recall.
 * Even though nearly half the states have "direct democracy", there are few such measures on the ballots—at least where I could find an article listing them.
 * Several founding fathers opposed such direct democracy: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Witherspoon are mentioned. They mostly were concerned of political majorities being unjust to minorities.
 * Only a few states have corresponding List of [state] [direct democracy name]. Consider this your navigation box:
 * List of Arizona Ballot Propositions
 * List of California ballot propositions 1980-1989 • List of California ballot propositions 1990-1999 • List of California ballot propositions 2000-present
 * List of Colorado ballot measures
 * List of Oregon ballot measures
 * Texas constitutional amendment election 2007
 * List of Washington initiatives to the people • List of Washington initiatives to the legislature
 * Virtually all the other states have categories, usually sparsely populated, of
 * category:[state] gubernatorial elections: almost every state
 * category:US Senate elections in [state]: 80–90% of the states
 * category:US House of Representatives elections in [state]: 40–50% of the states
 * category:US presidential election in [state], [year]: about 25%
 * category: elections, [year]: about 25%
 * There were some navbox attempts in a few of the articles. Elections by state had mostly bluelinks, but many others follow a pattern which isn't present in most and are huge collections of redlinks. Another had a peculiar twist and only attempted to list about six states, three of which were redlinked.

 * Well, as one (of a number of) editors who've made it a point to beef up this aspect of WP coverage of Oregon, I'm flattered by your analysis. I agree, I think that we've done some good work here in Oregon, but I haven't made a concerted effort to compare it to other states. I'll echo your sentiments: I'm disappointed to hear that most other states are so behind, but proud of the work we've done here.

 * At any rate, I think it would be good to build a navbox out of the info you've assembled, even if that means a lot of redlinks. Pointing out what info is missing can be helpful in spurring future writing; I'd like to help prod editors in other states to get into this, and offer support if it's needed, and I think creating a navbox would be a good way to get the ball rolling. As far as expanding coverage, I'm much more interested in getting Oregon's coverage right, than in moving my focus to other states. Too much work here still to be done.

 * A couple of details: California actually has a List of California ballot propositions, a parent-page for each of the decades; I think that would be a good model for us to follow as we expand this article. And the Washington articles seem confusing in two respects: there's no effort to explain the terms "to the people" and "to the legislature," which seem odd; and the claim to comprehensiveness seems suspect, given all the gaps between numbers. (But maybe they make numbers for initiatives that fail to qualify, or something like that.)

 * Anyway, I will get to work on a navbox, and if I'm motivated enough, maybe I'll even make stubs for each state, in the hopes that somebody expands them. Thanks again for doing and sharing all that research! -Pete (talk) 23:44, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

A place for Citizens' Initiative Review?
I added a bit here on Citizens' Initiative Review and would love to put it someplace Oregon-specific as well. This seems close, but clearly isn't the right page, and look through the pages that link here didn't turn up anything obvious - any recommendations? --John_Abbe (talk) 13:34, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
 * John -- I've actually been emailing back and forth with Elliot Shuford, who's a friend of mine, on exactly that subject. There's a little on Oregon Ballot Measure 58 (2008), and we should probably put something on Oregon state elections, 2008. Certainly worth writing a separate article on Citizens' Initiative Review. Not sure where else, though I wonder if History of elections in Oregon might be a worthy article to write. (By the way, the Oregon legislature considered a version of this in 1999 -- but I don't know much beyond what's in that article snippet.)

 * Thanks for the quick reply and the pointers (i'll probly put something on Oregon state elections, 2008). Another possibilitiy would be a Ballot measures in Oregon article. Didn't see anything in the snippet you linked (or here) about the Oregon legislature - is there another reference that mentioned that?--John_Abbe (talk) 00:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

 * It seems like OPB is the only reliable source that's covered the Oregon effort in any depth. Do you know of any others? -Pete (talk) 20:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

 * That's all i know of besides the Oregonian/Argus bits - Elliot or Tyrone might know others. --John_Abbe (talk) 00:52, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

Time to adjust?
Thanks to a recent flurry of additions by EncMstr, we now have a complete list from 1972 to the present. Unless there's some objection, I'd like to start breaking these out by decade.

This is something that has been done with other states. It will reduce the size of this overlong article. When we're done, I would envision the current article being prose, rather than a list, offering an overview of all ballot measures without enumerating each individual one; and each decade's section would have a "main" link to that decade's complete list.

Any objections to this approach? -Pete (talk) 21:29, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Sounds good. Organization and simplification is never a bad thing. Perhaps the current article could contain a short list of groundbreaking or particularly interesting/major legislative changes, in chronological order. I think what you mentioned, the article offering overviews by decade and containing links to 'main articles' with more detail, is a great idea. Would you happen to have another article similar to what you've described that can be used as an example or template? Whataworld06 (talk) 21:41, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * California takes this approach, though the "overview" article is just a table of contents: List of California ballot propositions We might be breaking new ground by trying to summarize. But, we do have text for some of the more recent election cycles, that could serve as a starting point. Thanks for your thoughts! -Pete (talk) 21:51, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't know. I'm not particularly bothered by the length, and I like the idea of there being only one place to look. For example, which ballot measure was about the legislator's salaries? However, that could be accomplished by a sister article like Oregon ballot measure summaries which links to the appropriate decade and section. —EncMstr (talk) 21:55, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I, too, like the idea of all the information being in one location. However, it looks very long and cluttered the way it is now. Perhaps (at least) if all the charts were the same width (each column having a fixed width) and the information was aligned it would be easier to read.(?) Just my two cents. Thanks to EncMstr for the recent information--I enjoy having access to all this information, I just think it needs a bit of a facelift. Whataworld06 (talk) 22:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is an advantage of the current setup. But also, I was hoping to tie the other articles in a bit more tightly with articles about the legislature -- like Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly. So for each decade, the ballot measure list would link to the five legislative assemblies, and vice-versa.
 * For an example like you mentioned, EncMstr, isn't the search feature sufficient? Also, do you agree that the current article length is getting a little unwieldy? This is the sort of info. I might want to look up, for instance, during a conversation with a legislator, on my slow cell phone connection. Huge pages don't work so well for that kind of use. -Pete (talk) 22:15, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Besides, just imagine how the page would look in 10 year. No harm in getting started with a new system early, before the task become too daunting.Whataworld06 (talk) 22:17, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Another thought -- maybe we could have it all. Take all the prose out of this one, and put it into Oregon ballot measures (or Direct democracy in Oregon or something), preserving this as a pure list. Then create separate articles for the decades, that duplicate the list info, but also have an overview of that decade in prose. Would that work? And if so, what's our best way to "get there", considering that it will be a while before we have a complete list, and also until we can write a lot of that prose? -Pete (talk) 02:13, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * I'll continue expanding this article to its completion. I like Whataworld06's idea of making a single table. I'll prototype that in userspace and see how it works. If anyone would like to continue making the 1990 and later tables a consistent format, that would streamline that effort.
 * An old chemistry teacher often reminded us that Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. With that philosophy, perhaps someone might start the decade article series? Then we could have two kinds of all-in-one, plus a decade series, plus a prose collection, in addition to the other fine ideas from a year ago. —EncMstr (talk) 06:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Hmm, not so sure about the ubertable -- I think it would defeat the purpose of most sorts (i.e., "which 2006 amendments were constitutional amendments," "which 1994 measure got the most votes," and the like.) Just a first thought -- I thought Whataworld was just suggesting consistent column widths, which is possible without combining the tables? I am mostly braindead, so I'll leave it at that for now :) -Pete (talk) 08:57, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Oh and yes, I will work on making the more recent tables' columns consistent. (Also, I think we need exact ballot titles for a lot of them -- they have more general descriptions. Probably my fault.) -Pete (talk) 09:04, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Okay, it's complete. Except for whatever mistakes I made.... —EncMstr (talk) 18:50, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

 * See User:EncMstr/sandbox2 for a rough prototype of the summary version I described above. Future edits will make it sort dates rationally and finish filling out the empty columns. —EncMstr (talk) 01:53, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

Some thoughts
Äþelwulf Talk to me. 12:17, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * It's my understanding that the consensus decision is to display information in tables. Is this correct? I'm fairly partial to California's minimalist approach, as I think someone else also said, but I suppose tables work too. I do like their capacity for the rows to be resorted.
 * Has a consensus been reached on divvying up the list per decade? I approve of such an idea. I think the list presently is unwieldy. Even more unwieldy, in my opinion, is the idea of a monolithic übertable like EncMstr is working on. I think breaking it up into sections would make it easier to navigate, and that's what we got now.
 * What is the use of displaying the raw tally of votes for each measure? Displaying the measure number, its type, whether it's a constitutional amendment, whether it passed, the percentage of yes votes, and a description, all make logical sense to me. But I think perhaps the raw tallies in this list are clutter. The only way I see it being notable is maybe to show if turnout varied wildly for each measure in a given election, or something like that. Percentages make more sense to me than raw figures. These tallies certainly would fit in their respective measure's article, so maybe it's better to do this. Thoughts?
 * The idea of a green–red color coding was mentioned above. I had the idea myself. The columns in our tables showing passage or failure ask for whether a measure passed, implying a yes–no answer. Green can mean "yes" (as in yes, the measure passed), and red "no" (no, it did not pass). This is different from green "pass, red "fail", as well as from green "win", red "lose". Or is my idea decidedly POV? In case it's not, I should mention there are templates for color-coding table cells to show "yes" or "no", making the article's source code more manageable. They are, quite surprisingly, and.

 * I don't understand the incentive for splitting ballot measures into decade-specific articles or how that makes navigation more "wieldy". It presumes one already knows or has a good idea when a ballot measure came up. I understand and agree that the übertable isn't for everyone, and might be appropriate as List of Oregon ballot measures übertable, or Gory list of Oregon ballot measures, or List of Oregon ballot measures ad nasaseum, and not as List of Oregon ballot measures.
 * I sympathize with eliminating some of the details to improve readability and make it look more digestible. But after looking at List of California ballot propositions 2000–2009 I'm far from sold. How soundly was proposition 27 (2000) defeated? A percentage would go a long way to answering that. How interested were voters in the measure? The vote totals compared to other measures is the most concise way (which is easily sourced) to show that. Starting with the external links given, it took 22 clicks to find the answers. (40.4% yes, and 15-20% less than other measures)
 * I don't think a red-green scheme is POV, as long as it applies consistently to pass-fail. Oregon is blessed in that a "no" vote for a ballot measure always means "no change". As for indicating results by color coding the table, we had a discussion (above) which balances something visual with general uses such as monochrome printing. —EncMstr (talk) 17:38, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

 * One thing I'd like to do is start writing more time-specific bits of history of Oregon. This is why I started articles like Seventy-fourth Oregon Legislative Assembly. Decades are a convenient chunk, because they correspond to things like redistricting (following censuses).
 * But, that reason really doesn't require doing away with this list, and what you (EncMstr) say does make sense. I guess my hope is that in the long run, it will be easy to find such things by any number of means -- by searching by topic, or by decade, or browsing categories, etc. But it will be a long time before we get to that level of comprehensiveness, and having a single list with the ability to do a search within the page is probably the most complete solution in the meantime. Ultimately, maybe the "decade" articles become more prosey things, focusing on measures according to their importance, and not exhaustively listing every failed referral etc.

Maybe Legislation in Oregon, 1991–2000 is a good example of a title? Covering both ballot measures and legislative action? -Pete (talk) 08:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

"Referendum" vs. "ballot measure"
Lestatdelc and I have been working on categorizing ballot measures. There's an existing category structure of referendums by year, e.g. Category:2008 referendums. We've just begun making some like Category:2008 ballot measures.

It's my understanding that "referendum" usually means measures that are put to a popular vote after they have been voted on by the legislature. It seems that in some places, the term is used more generally, but in Oregon that specific meaning seems pretty common.

So I think it's best to populate the new categories, and avoid putting anything but the very few measures that are actually referendums into the existing categories. Thoughts? -Pete (talk) 08:29, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. I was more just trying to get my cranium around how the subcategory tags, etc. work, than getting into the particulars of what the technical differences are and what Oregon ballot measures do, or do not merit actually being termed referendum. Lestatdelc (talk) 04:14, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Source for expansion/citations
Not sure if those editing here have seen this, but some good info (need to scroll down the page a bit) in the lesson plan materials. Aboutmovies (talk) 05:31, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Proposed measures included?
Is this page meant to discuss only ballot measures that have been on the ballot? If so, is there another place for proposed measures for upcoming elections? The Secretary of State's web page is useful but unwieldy. Gelasticjew (talk) 13:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 * An article about proposed measures would have problems with verifiability—significant problems I would think—given the vast quantities of point of view rhetoric which flies around. I imagine such an article would be a magnet for paid staffers to alter to their purposes as well, though that's hardly a reason not to have such an article. —EncMstr (talk) 16:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I was thinking of just a list of ballot measures that have certified ballot titles, summary, and yes/no vote results; I could note which ones were on appeal at the Supreme Court and then the disposition. It's all available on the SecState's website. Maybe the section could be called "Ballot Measures Certified for the 2010 Election".Gelasticjew (talk) 13:29, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

 * That seems like it would be fine addition. I especially like having it on this article instead of some new article because the previous measures add a nice deep context. —EncMstr (talk) 18:33, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

Useful Websites
There is a wiki project that covers ballot measures and news for every state at http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php It includes actual ballot measures and proposed measures at http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/List_of_Oregon_ballot_measures Just thought I'd throw this out here. Seemed relevant. TimeClock871 (talk) 13:55, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Seems like a useful addition to me, I've used BallotPedia some over the years, and it's becoming a pretty useful site. Definitely a service to the reader to have a link there. Thanks. -Pete (talk) 17:09, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Anachronistic references to measures before 1954
Today's practice is to give each measure a number, such as "Measure 1". The State of Oregon uses this convention in its modern list of all past ballot measures, and we have copied them. Furthermore, we say, "Vote yes on Measure 1", or simply, "No on 2", when recommending a vote. But in looking through voters' pamphlets and contemporary newspapers, I've discovered that we've only been doing this since 1954. So, referring to any measure before 1954 as "Measure 1", for example, is an anachronism, and I wonder if we should change this article as a result.

Up until 1952, each ballot option was given a number. For measures, the numbers would start with 300, which was the "yes" option for the first measure listed on the ballot. Number 301 would be the corresponding "no" option. The options for the second measure would be numbered 302 (for "yes") and 303 (for "no"), then 304 and 305 for the third, and so on.

The official voters' pamphlet would cite a measure by referring to the numbers for its ballot options (although it would often refer to it by a descriptive title too). The first measure on the ballot would be "Nos. 300 and 301", the second would be "Nos. 302 and 303", and so on. In contemporary newspapers, only occasionally would a measure be referred to as "Measure No. 300", and as far as I can tell, only by someone who happened to support a "yes" vote.

When recommending how to vote on a measure, the practice was to refer to the corresponding option's number. Contemporary newspapers and the arguments in the voters' pamphlet would say, "Vote 300 X YES", or simply, "303 X NO". (Incidentally, something like "300×YES" would occasionally appear when advanced typography was possible, which to me suggests this was considered the most typographically correct form.) My hypothesis is that people would indicate their vote by writing an X in the space between the number and the word "Yes/No" on their ballot, and telling people, "Vote 300 X YES" emulated that.

I'm not sure how it could be done, but I'm curious what people think about adjusting the article to identify measures in the same way they were identified by the state and the media at the time they were on the ballot.— Athelwulf [T]/[C] 01:29, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

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I noticed Kate Brown is linked as the author of many of these under her capacity as Oregon Secretary of State. But I would argue that she isn't the author, it is the Office of the Secretary of State. Any objections to removing the authorlinks or am I missing something? Valfontis (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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1833 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1833.

Events

 * February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
 * May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there he withdraws it for revision.
 * July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
 * October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
 * December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.
 * Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
 * Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.

Popular music

 * "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
 * "Još Hrvatska ni propala" m. Ferdo Livadić w. Ljudevit Gaj (written in 1832)

Classical music

 * Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
 * William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
 * Hector Berlioz – Overture 'King Lear', H 53, premiered December 22 in Paris
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18
 * Boléro, Op. 19
 * Carl Czerny
 * Divertissement de concert, Op.204
 * Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281
 * Piano Trio No.4, Op.289
 * The Art of Preluding, Op.300
 * Anton Diabelli – Grande Sonate brillante pour le Pianoforte et Guitare, Op.102
 * Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
 * Gegenwart. Allegro Moderato H-U 270
 * In Die Ferne. Allegretto Affettuoso H-U 271
 * Ferdinand Hiller – Neuer Frühling, Op.16
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
 * Georg Kopprasch – 60 Etudes for High-Horn, Op.5
 * Franz Liszt – Malédiction, S.121
 * Joseph Mayseder – String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op.51
 * Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
 * Joseph Merk – 20 Exercises for Cello, Op.11
 * Sigismond Neukomm – "Fantaisie dramatique on some pages of Milton’s Paradise lost"
 * Józef Nowakowski – Piano Quintet, Op. 17
 * George Onslow
 * String Quartet No.22, Op.47
 * Symphony No. 3 in F minor
 * Carl Gottlieb Reissiger – Piano Trio No.7, Op.85
 * Clara Schumann – Romance variée, Op.3
 * Robert Schumann – 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
 * Louis Spohr – String Quintet No.4, Op.91
 * Johann Strauss Sr
 * Fra Diavolo, Op.41
 * Die vier Temperamente, Op.59
 * Carnevals-Spende, Op.60
 * Tausendsapperment Walzer, Op.61
 * Sigismond Thalberg – Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra 'La straniera', Op.9

Opera

 * Daniel François Esprit Auber – Gustave III, premiered February 27 in Paris
 * Vincenzo Bellini – Beatrice di Tenda, premiered March 16 in Venice
 * Hector Berlioz – Les francs-juges, H 23, last revision
 * Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia, premiered December 26 in Milan
 * Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

Births

 * January 17 – Theodor Bradsky, composer (died 1881)
 * January 26 – Grenville Dean Wilson, composer (died 1897)
 * February 12 – Charles-Wilfrid Bériot, pianist (died 1914)
 * February 13 – James William Elliott, nursery rhyme composer (died 1915)
 * March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
 * March 13 – Nikolay Zverev, pianist (died 1893)
 * March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
 * March 23 – Franz Bendel, pianist (died 1874)
 * April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
 * May 1 – Theodor Krause, composer (died 1910)
 * May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
 * May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
 * May 9
 * Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
 * Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
 * May 11 – Jean Becker, violinist (died 1884)
 * May 26 – Merian Genast, vocalist (died 1905)
 * June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
 * June 8 – Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, composer (died 1901)
 * June 20 – Anton Door, pianist (died 1919)
 * June 27 – Vladislav Zaremba, composer and pianist (b. 1902)
 * July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
 * September 14 – Francis Edward Bache, organist (died 1858)
 * September 19 – Ludwig von Brenner, conductor (died 1902)
 * September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
 * October 14 – William George Cusins, composer (died 1893)
 * October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
 * November 6 – Wilhelm Ganz, composer (died 1914)
 * November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
 * date unknown
 * Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
 * Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)

Deaths

 * January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b 1769)
 * January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
 * January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
 * March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
 * April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
 * April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, lyricist (born 1754)
 * May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
 * May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
 * May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
 * July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
 * September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
 * October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
 * October 15 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer and Polish diplomat (born 1765)
 * November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)

title: 1833 in music


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1832 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1832.

Events

 * Spring – Elias Parish Alvars gives concerts in Constantinople before Sultan Mahmud II.
 * February 26 – Chopin gives his debut Paris concert at the Salle Pleyel.
 * April 20 – Franz Liszt attends a charity concert for the Parisian cholera epidemic given by Niccolò Paganini. He vows to become the 'Paganini of the Piano'.
 * May 14 – Première of Felix Mendelssohn's overture The Hebrides is held in London.
 * September – Paris's Opéra-Comique moves from Salle Ventadour to Salle de la Bourse.
 * November 22 – Baritone Manuel García marries operatic soprano Cécile Eugénie Mayer.
 * Changes to American Army regulations make bandsmen regular soldiers, required to serve in battle if needed, establishes a position for bandmasters, and limits the size of regimental bands.
 * First Publication of "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)"

Classical music

 * Charles-Valentin Alkan – Concerti da Camera nos. 1 and 2, Op. 10
 * William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No.1, Op.1
 * Hector Berlioz – Lélio, Cantata, premiered December 9 in Paris
 * Frederic Chopin
 * 5 Mazurkas Op. 7
 * Mazurka in B-flat major 'Wołowska', B.73
 * 3 Nocturnes Op. 9
 * Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Quintet No.3
 * Adolf Friedrich Hesse – Fantasie für die Orgel zu 4 Händen, Op.35
 * Friedrich Kuhlau
 * La clochette, Op. 121
 * Allegro pathetique for Piano 4-hands, Op. 123
 * Adagio and Rondo for Piano 4-Hands, Op. 124
 * Albert Lortzing – Singspiel Szenen aus Mozarts Leben
 * Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
 * Ignaz Moscheles
 * Piano Concerto No.5, Op.87
 * Grand septuor, Op.88
 * Ivan Padovec – Variations, Op.4 (based on a Schubert waltz)
 * Ferdinand Ries
 * Grande ouverture et marche triomphale, Op.172
 * Piano Concerto No.9, Op.177
 * Clara Schumann – Caprices en forme de valses, Op. 2
 * Robert Schumann - Toccata in C, Op. 7
 * Bedřich Smetana – Galop (Kvapík) in D major, JB 2:1
 * Johann Strauss, Sr.
 * Cotillons, Op. 50
 * Bajaderen-Walzer, Op. 53
 * Contratänze, Op. 54
 * Alexandra-Walzer, Op. 56
 * Sigismond Thalberg – 6 Deutsche Lieder, Op. 8
 * Richard Wagner
 * Polonaise in D major, WWV 23
 * 2 Entreactes tragiques, WWV 25
 * Concert Overture No.2 in C major, WWV 27 (dated March 3-17)
 * Symphony in C, WWV 29

Opera

 * Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le Serment, premiered October 1 in Paris
 * Gaetano Donizetti
 * L'elisir d'amore, May 12, Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan.
 * Sancia di Castiglia (opera seria, first performed at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, on November 4, 1832)
 * Fromental Halévy – La tentation
 * Albert Lortzing – Der Pole und sein Kind (premiered October 11 in Osnabrück

Popular music

 * "The Bloom is on the Rye (My Pretty Jane)" by Edward Fitzball & Henry Rowley Bishop

Publications

 * Ludwig van Beethoven – Published posthumously: Studien im Generalbass, Contrapunkt und in der Compositionslehre
 * Joseph Funk – A Compilation of Genuine Church Music
 * Nicola Vaccai – Metodo pratico de canto

Births

 * January 1 – Aloys Kunc, pedagogue and composer (died 1895)
 * January 17 – Marie Wieck, pianist, singer, piano teacher, and composer (died 1916)
 * January 27 – Lewis Carroll, lyricist (died 1898)
 * January 28 – Franz Wüllner, conductor and composer (died 1902)
 * February 12 – Gustave Satter, pianist and composer (died 1879)
 * February 15 – Nicolás Ruiz Espadero, pianist, composer, piano teacher and editor of the works of Louis Moreau Gottschalk (died 1890)
 * March 1 – Friedrich Grützmacher, cellist (died 1903)
 * March 4 – Ivan Melnikov, operatic baritone (died 1906)
 * March 7 – William Busnach, librettist (died 1907)
 * April 14 – Wilhelm Busch, lyricist (died 1908)
 * April 15 – Gabriel Baille, composer (died 1909)
 * June 3 – Charles Lecocq, composer (died 1918)
 * July 2 – Félix Henri Duquesnel, lyricist (died 1915)
 * June 15 – Sigmund Schlesinger, composer (died 1918)
 * July 17 – August Söderman, composer (died 1876)
 * July 24 – Johann Lauterbach, composer (died
 * August 3
 * Étienne Rey, composer (died 1923)
 * Ivan Zajc, composer, conductor, director and teacher (died 1914)
 * August 7 – Julius Epstein, pianist (died 1926)
 * August 15 – Ernst Naumann, organist and composer (died 1910)
 * September 9 – Petro Nishchynsky, composer (died 1896)
 * September 14 – Giuseppe Capponi, operatic tenor (died 1889)
 * September 20 – Johann Joseph Abert, composer (died 1915)
 * October 1 – Henry Clay Work, US composer (died 1884)
 * October 7 – Charles Crozat Converse, composer (died 1918)
 * October 14 – Heinrich Armin Rattermann, lyricist and translator (died 1923)
 * October 22
 * Leopold Damrosch, conductor (died 1885)
 * Robert Eitner, musicologist (died 1905)
 * August Labitzky, composer and kapellmeister (died 1903)
 * October 25 – Julián Arcas, composer (died 1882)
 * October 29 – Anders Heyerdahl, violinist and composer (died 1918)
 * November 1 – Eleanora Ehrenbergů, operatic soprano (died 1912)
 * November 11 – Paolo Giorza, composer (died 1914)
 * November 12 – John Troutbeck, musicologist (died 1899)
 * December 24 – Manuel Del Palacio, lyricist (died 1906)
 * date unknown – Julián Arcas, composer for guitar (died 1882)

Deaths

 * February 15 – Hartenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer (born 1746)
 * March 10 – Muzio Clementi, composer and pianist, 80
 * March 12 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer, 45 (born 1786)
 * March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, lyricist and librettist (born 1749)
 * March 23 – Wilhelm Würfel, pianist, conductor and composer, 41
 * May 15 – Carl Friedrich Zelter, conductor, composer and music teacher, 73
 * May 26 – François-Louis Perne, composer and musicologist, 59
 * June 10 – Manuel García, opera singer, 57
 * July 25 – Sébastien Demar, composer (born 1763)
 * July 28 – Joseph Schreyvogel, music publisher (born 1768)
 * August 19 – George Aspull, pianist, singer and composer, 19
 * August 31 – Auguste Kreutzer, composer (born 1778)
 * September 9 – Bernhard Klein, composer, 39
 * September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, lyricist (born 1771)
 * November 3 – Pietro Generali, composer, 59
 * November 15 – Konrad von Schmidt-Phiseldeck, lyricist (born 1770)
 * December 12 – Andrea Nozzari, operatic tenor, 57
 * December 22 – Ishmail Spicer, composer, 72
 * December 31 – Adelaide Malanotte, operatic contralto, 47
 * date unknown
 * Philip Antony Corri, composer (b. 1784)
 * Isabelle de Montolieu, lyricist and translator (born 1751)

title: 1832 in music


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1831 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1831.

Events

 * Frédéric Chopin arrives in Paris.
 * The first opera, Deux mots by Nicolas Dalayrac in performed in Oslo directed by August Schrumpf with Augusta Smith in the main part. Emilie da Fonseca is employed at Christiania Theatre.

Popular music

 * William Crosswell – "Lord, Lead the Way the Saviour Went" (hymn)
 * "America (My Country, 'Tis of Thee)", words by Samuel Francis Smith (1831), air: "God Save the King"

Classical music

 * Hector Berlioz
 * Overture 'King Lear', H 53
 * Intrata di Rob-Roy MacGregor, H 54
 * Méditation religieuse, H 56
 * La captive, H 60
 * Frédéric Chopin – Arrangement of "Casta Diva"
 * Carl Czerny – Piano Sonata No.10, Op. 268
 * Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Divertissement in F major, Op.28

 * Franz Lachner – Fragen
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Piano Concerto No. 1, Opus 25 (premièred October 17 in Munich)
 * Die erste Walpurgisnacht, secular cantata, Opus 60 (first version)
 * George Onslow – Symphony No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 42
 * Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater (composition begins, premiere in 1842)
 * Robert Schumann
 * Papillons
 * Allegro, Op.8
 * Johann Strauss Sr
 * Einzugs-Galopp, Op.35
 * Souvenir de Baden, Op.38
 * Sperl-Galopp, Op.42
 * Der Raub der Sabinerinnen, Op.43
 * Tivoli-Freudenfest-Tänze, Op.45
 * Vive la Danse!, Op.47
 * Das Leben ein Tanz, Op.49
 * Richard Wagner
 * 7 Kompositionen zu Goethe's Faust, WWV 15
 * Concert Overture No.1 in D minor, WWV 20
 * Piano Sonata in B-flat major, WWV 21
 * Fantasia in F-sharp minor, WWV 22
 * Polonaise in D major, WWV 23
 * Incidental Music to 'König Enzio', WWV 24
 * Piano Sonata in A major, WWV 26

Opera

 * Vincenzo Bellini
 * Norma
 * La Sonnambula
 * Carlo Coccia – Edoardo in Iscozia
 * Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – Zampa
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer – Robert le diable

Births

 * January 15 – Albert Niemann, operatic tenor (d. 1917)
 * February 21
 * Henri Meilhac, opera librettist (d. 1897)
 * Eduard Rappoldi, composer (died 1903)
 * February 26 – Filippo Marchetti, opera composer (d. 1902)
 * February 28 – Carl Kölling, composer for piano (d. 1914)
 * May 24 – Richard Hoffman, composer and pianist (d. 1909)
 * June 10 – Silverio Franconetti, flamenco singer (d. 1889)
 * June 26 – Julius Rodenberg, lyricist (died 1914)
 * June 28 – Joseph Joachim, violinist (d. 1907)
 * July 7 – Eugène Ketterer, pianist and composer (d. 1870)
 * July 16 – Pyotr Veinberg, lyricist (died 1908)
 * August 1 – Antonio Cotogni, operatic baritone (d. 1901)
 * August 13 – Salomon Jadassohn, composer, teacher and theorist (d. 1902)
 * August 28 – Ludvig Norman, Swedish composer (d. 1885)
 * September 4 – Daniel Godfrey, bandleader and composer (died 1903)
 * September 5 – Victorien Sardou, librettist (died 1908)
 * December 10 – Philippe Gille, opera librettist (d. 1901)
 * December 25 – Johann von Herbeck, composer and musician (died 1877)
 * date unknown
 * Julius Gerber, composer (died 1883)

Deaths

 * January 6 – Rodolphe Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer (b. 1766)
 * January 8 – Franz Krommer, composer (b. 1759)
 * January 21 – Achim von Arnim, publisher and lyricist (born 1781)
 * March 4 – Georg Michael Telemann, theologian and composer (b. 1748)
 * March 12 – Friedrich von Matthisson, dedicatee and lyricist (born 1761)
 * April 13 – Ferdinand Kauer, pianist and composer (b. 1751)
 * June 23 – Mateo Albéniz, composer (b. 1755)
 * July 25 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (b. 1789)
 * August 5 – Sébastien Érard, maker of pianos and harps (b. 1752)
 * September 8 – John Aitken, music publisher (b. c. 1745)
 * September 15 – Andrea Leone Tottola, Italian librettist
 * September 18 – Peter Hänsel, German composer (born 1770)
 * November 14 – Ignaz Pleyel, piano-maker and pupil of Joseph Haydn (b. 1757)
 * November 30 – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (b. 1760)
 * date unknown
 * Domenico Gilardoni, composer and librettist (born 1798)
 * Peter Anton Kreusser, composer (b. 1765)
 * Guillaume Lasceux, composer and organist (born 1740)
 * Benedicto Sáenz the elder, cathedral organist of Guatemala

title: 1831 in music


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1830 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1830.

Events

 * August 25 – A performance of Daniel Auber's La muette de Portici at La Monnaie in Brussels helps trigger the Belgian Revolution.
 * October
 * Maria Malibran, Margarethe Stockhausen and Charles de Bériot tour the English Midlands.
 * Felix Mendelssohn arrives in Italy.
 * November 2 – Frédéric Chopin, aged twenty, leaves Warsaw for Austria.
 * December 5 – Franz Liszt attends the first performance of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique. It inspires him to search for new expressive effects on the piano.
 * In Britain:
 * The Royal Academy of Music is granted a charter by King George IV of the United Kingdom.
 * Charles Lucas is appointed official composer and cellist to Queen Adelaide.

Classical music

 * Frédéric Chopin
 * 4 Mazurkas Op. 6
 * Piano Concerto No. 1
 * Revolutionary Étude, Op. 10, No. 12
 * George Onslow – Symphony No. 1 in A Major
 * Hector Berlioz – Symphonie Fantastique
 * Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, "Reformation"
 * Robert Schumann – Variations on the name "Abegg"

Opera

 * Daniel Auber – Fra Diavolo first performed in Paris. Libretto by Eugène Scribe.
 * Vincenzo Bellini – I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Venice)
 * Gaetano Donizetti – Anna Bolena first performed in Milan. Libretto by Felice Romani.
 * Jacques-François-Fromental-Elie Halévy – Attendre et courir
 * Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold – L'Auberge d'Auray

Births

 * January 23 – Ivan Larionov, Russian composer (d. 1889)
 * February 11
 * Peter Arnold Heise, composer (d. 1879)
 * Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, composer (d. 1913)
 * February 13 - Cyrille Rose, clarinetist and teacher (d. 1902)
 * April 13 – Eduard Lassen, conductor and composer (d. 1904)
 * May 18 – Karl Goldmark, composer (d. 1915)
 * June 22 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, teacher, and composer (d. 1915)
 * July 30 – Giovanni Masutto, Italian musicologist and flautist (d.1894)
 * July 31 – František Zdeněk Skuherský, Czech composer and teacher (d. 1892)
 * August 13 – Gustav Lange, German composer (d. 1889)
 * September 25 – Karl Klindworth, German composer, pianist, conductor, violinist and music publisher (d. 1916)
 * November 27 – Harrison Millard, American composer (d.1895)
 * December 23 – Charlotte Alington Barnard ('Claribel'), English ballad composer (d. 1869)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer (b. 1773)
 * February 17 – Marcos Portugal, composer (b. 1762)
 * March 2 – Ignaz Schuppanzigh, violinist (b. 1776)
 * April 18 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (b. 1767)
 * November 25 – Pierre Rode, violinist and composer (b. 1774)
 * November 29 – Charles Simon Catel, composer (b. 1773)

title: 1830 in music