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1842 in music

Events

 * May 31 – Frederick William IV of Prussia creates a civil class of the order Pour le Mérite for the arts and sciences. Those honoured include: Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt and Gioachino Rossini.
 * October 20 – Hans von Bülow attends the first performance of Wagner's Rienzi in Dresden.
 * December 7 – The New York Philharmonic orchestra performs its first concert.
 * Louis Gottschalk leaves the United States to obtain a classical training in Europe. Pierre Zimmerman, professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory, refuses to hear him because "America is a country of Steam Engines".
 * Franz von Suppé makes his debut as a singer as Dulcamara in Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore at the Ödenburg Theatre.
 * Camille Saint-Saëns begins studying piano under Camille-Marie Stamaty.

Popular music

 * Frederick Ellard – Sydney Corporation Quadrilles
 * Antoine Gérin-Lajoie – "Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian")

Classical music

 * Adolphe Adam – La jolie fille de Gand, Ballet premiered June 22 in Paris
 * Jacob Arcadelt – Ave Maria
 * Hector Berlioz
 * Rêverie et Caprice, H 88, premiered February 1 in Paris
 * La mort d'Ophélie, H 92, composition begun
 * Franz Berwald
 * Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Sinfonie sérieuse"
 * Symphony No. 2 in D "Sinfonie capricieuse"
 * Ernste und heitere Grillen, for orchestra
 * Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen, for orchestra
 * Festival of the Bayadères
 * Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – Messe du jour de Noel, Op.11
 * Anton Bruckner – Windhaager Messe, WAB 25
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Mazurkas, Op.50
 * Ballade No. 4, Op.52
 * Polonaise for Piano in A-flat major, B 147/Op. 53 "Heroic"
 * Waltzes, Op.70, No. 2
 * Carl Czerny – Nocturne, Op.647
 * Friedrich Dotzauer – 24 Études journalières, Op.155
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
 * Boléro, Op.16
 * Polonaise, Op.17
 * Feuillet d'album
 * August Freyer – Concert-Fantasie, Op.1
 * Niels Gade
 * 3 Nordiske Tonebilleder, Op.4
 * Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 6
 * Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.34
 * Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, Op.24
 * Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Overture No.10, Op.142
 * Joseph Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
 * Franz Liszt – Ave Maria I, S.20
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Venetianisches Gondellied, MWV K 114 (Op. 57, No. 5)
 * Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream (including the Wedding March)
 * Die Stille, MWV K 112 (Op. 99, No. 6)
 * Symphony No. 3 ("Scottish")
 * Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater
 * Robert Schumann
 * Three String Quartets in A minor, F and A, Op. 41
 * Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44
 * Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47
 * Louis Spohr – Piano Sonata Op. 125
 * Vaclav Veit – Concert-Ouverture, Op.17
 * Henri Vieuxtemps – Le Papillon

Opera

 * Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le duc d'Olonne, premiered February 4 in Paris
 * Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix, May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor, Vienna
 * Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila, November 27(Old Style) at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg
 * Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro, Op.71
 * Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz, December 31 at Stadttheater, Leipzig
 * Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco, March 9 at La Scala, Milan
 * Richard Wagner – Rienzi, October 20 at Hofoper, Dresden

Musical theatre

 * March 10 – Einen Jux will er sich machen by Johann Nestroy, with music by Adolf Müller, opens at the Theater an der Wien.

Births

 * February 24 – Arrigo Boito, Italian poet and composer (died 1918)
 * February 25 – Karl May, lyricist (died 1912)
 * March 10 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (died 1912)
 * March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé, lyricist (died 1898)
 * March 22 – Carl Rosa, musical impresario (died 1889)
 * April 14 – Sven August Körling, composer of art songs (died 1919)
 * April 29 – Carl Millöcker, composer (died 1899)
 * May 3 – Sophus Hagen, composer (died 1929)
 * May 12 – Jules Massenet, opera composer (died 1912)
 * May 13 – Arthur Sullivan, composer (died 1900)
 * May 14 – Alphons Czibulka, pianist, conductor and composer (died 1894)
 * May 17 – Henry Cotter Nixon, pianist (died 1907)
 * May 23 – Maria Konopnicka, lyricist (died 1910)
 * June 4 – Samuel Brenton Whitney, organist (died 1914)
 * June 7 – Henri Gobbi, composer (died 1920)
 * June 12 – Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer (died 1866)
 * June 19 – Carl Zeller, Austrian composer (died 1898)
 * June 29 – Josef Labor, composer (died 1924)
 * July 4 – Gyula Erkel, Hungarian composer (died 1909), son of Ferenc Erkel
 * July 16 – Eugen Maria Albrecht, composer (died 1894)
 * July 29 – Charles Collette, actor and composer (died 1924)
 * September 12 – Marianne Brandt, operatic contralto (died 1921)
 * September 13 – Ödön Mihalovich, composer (died 1929)
 * September 24 – Emma Livry, ballerina (died 1863)
 * October 13 – Antonio Pasculli, oboist and composer (died 1924)
 * October 26 – Hugo Alpen, composer (died 1917)
 * November 8 – Eugen Gura, operatic baritone (died 1906)
 * November 24
 * Peter Jerndorff, Danish opera singer and stage actor (died 1926)
 * Pavel Viskovatov, lyricist (died 1905)
 * December 6 – Pavel Viskovatov, librettist (died 1905)
 * date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar, composer of Carnatic music (died 1909)

Deaths

 * January 7 – Joseph Czerny, composer (born 1785)
 * January 9 – Alexandre Duval, librettist and actor (born 1767)
 * January 19 – Heinrich Anton Hoffmann, violinist (born 1770)
 * March 6 – Constanze Mozart, widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1762)
 * March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer and conductor (born 1780)
 * March 15 – Luigi Cherubini, composer (born 1760)
 * April 6 – Johann Anton André, composer and music publisher (born 1775)
 * April 14 – Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, librettist (born 1763)
 * April 26 – Louis Bocquillon, composer (born 1781)
 * May 5 – Jean Elleviou, operatic tenor (born 1769)
 * June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (born 1776)
 * June 18 – Tobias Haslinger, composer (born 1787)
 * June 20 – Michael Umlauf, violinist and composer (born 1781)
 * July 23 – Timothy Swan, hat-maker and composer (born 1758)
 * August 21 – Johann Friedrich Leopold Duncker, lyricist (born 1768)
 * August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer and music theorist (born 1762)
 * September 15 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (born 1771)
 * October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer (born 1774)
 * November 3 – Franz Clement, violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (born 1780)
 * November 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (born 1767)
 * December 16 – Friedrich Rochlitz, musicologist (born 1769)
 * December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini, composer (born 1762)
 * December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber, composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766)

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Arthur E. Nelson

Arthur Emanuel Nelson (May 10, 1892 – April 11, 1955) was an American lawyer and politician who served briefly as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota during the end of 1942 and beginning of 1943

Early life and education
Born in Browns Valley, Minnesota, Arthur Nelson graduated from Macalester College in 1912 and William Mitchell College of Law (then the St. Paul College of Law) in 1915. He also served briefly in the U.S. Army from August to November 1918.

Political career
Nelson was elected Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1922. He served two two-year terms. Nelson unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate as a Republican in 1928 against Henrik Shipstead (receiving 33.4% of the vote).

Senate
He was elected to the Senate fourteen years later, in November 1942 to finish out the term of deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen, which had temporarily been filled by appointee Joseph H. Ball (who won the November 1942 election for the full six-year term from 1943 to 1949). Nelson served less than two months, from November 18, 1942, to January 3, 1943. He never sought re-election.

Death
Nelson died in Chicago, Illinois on April 11, 1955.

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1841 in music

Events

 * April 13 – The first Dresden opera house in Germany opens with the performance of a work by Carl Maria von Weber.
 * Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, opus 38 (also called the "Spring" symphony), and Symphony No. 4 in D minor, opus 120. (The D-minor symphony is edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus is given a much later opus number and subsequently referred to as No. 4, although it is actually his second.)
 * Tenor Domenico Donzelli retires from the stage.
 * Nikolay Afanas'yev resigns as concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in order to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near St Petersburg.

Popular music

 * August Heinrich Hoffmann – "Deutschlandlied" (to music written in 1797 by Joseph Haydn)

Classical music

 * Adolphe Adam – Giselle (ballet)
 * Hector Berlioz
 * Rêverie et Caprice, H 88
 * Les nuits d'été
 * Frederic Chopin
 * Ballade No. 3
 * Fantaisie in F minor
 * Theodor Kullak – Cavatine de Robert le Diable
 * Friedrich August Kummer – 2 Concert Duos for Violin and Cello, Op. 67
 * Joseph Lanner – Abend-Sterne Walzer, Op.180
 * Henry Lemoine – Études enfantines, Op. 37
 * Jans Christian Lumbye – Döbler's Zauber Galop
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * Variations sérieuses
 * Antigone, Op. 55
 * Allegro brillant, Op.92
 * Clara Schumann
 * Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
 * Lieder, Op. 12
 * Robert Schumann
 * Symphony No.1, Op. 38
 * Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
 * Symphony No.4, Op. 120
 * Fernando Sor
 * Le calme, Op. 50
 * Divertissement for 2 Guitars, Op. 62
 * Johann Strauss Sr
 * Amors-Pfeile, Op. 123
 * Elektrische Funken, Op. 125
 * Johannes Verhulst – Symphony in E minor

Opera

 * Daniel Auber – Les diamants de la couronne
 * Michael William Balfe – Keolanthe
 * Gaetano Donizetti – Adelia
 * Fromental Halévy
 * Charles VI
 * La reine de Chypre
 * Franz Lachner – Caterina Cornaro
 * Giovanni Pacini – L'uomo del mistero

Births

 * January 15 – Thorvald Lammers, singer, conductor and composer (died 1922)
 * January 18 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894)
 * January 23 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (died 1913)
 * January 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (died 1890)
 * January 31 – Michael Maybrick, composer and singer, better known as "Stephen Adams" (died 1913)
 * February 10 – Sir Walter Parratt, organist and composer (died 1924)
 * February 19
 * Elfrida Andrée, organist, conductor and composer (died 1929)
 * Felipe Pedrell, composer (died 1922)
 * March 1 – Romualdo Marenco, composer for ballet (died 1907)
 * May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer (died 1919)
 * May 21 – Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
 * May 28 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
 * June 16 – David Popper, cellist (died 1913)
 * July 9 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
 * July 11 – Daniël de Lange, composer (died 1918)
 * July 18 – Hedvig Willman, Swedish opera singer (died 1887)
 * September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, composer (died 1904)
 * September 26 – Signor Brocolini, opera singer (died 1906)
 * October 11 – Friedrich Hegar, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1927)
 * November 4 – Karl Tausig, pianist and composer (died 1871)
 * November 29 – Joe Wilson, singer and songwriter (died 1875)
 * December 14 – Louise Héritte-Viardot, singer (died 1918)

Deaths

 * January 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, "Marianne", cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1758)
 * February 14 – Antun Sorkočević, diplomat, writer and composer (born 1775)
 * February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer for guitar (born 1770)
 * May 18 – John Thomson, composer (born 1805)
 * June 12 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, archaeologist and composer (born 1786)
 * July 3 – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?)
 * August 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (born 1767)
 * August 24
 * Friedrich Curschmann, songwriter and singer (born 1805)
 * Theodore Hook, writer and composer (born 1788)
 * August 27 – Ignaz von Seyfried, conductor and composer (born 1776)
 * September 15 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1757)
 * September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin, songwriter (born 1771)
 * October 16 – Domenico Barbaia, impresario (born 1778)
 * October 28 – Francesco Morlacchi, composer (born 1784)
 * December 22 – Daniil Kashin, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1769)
 * date unknown – Justina Casagli, opera singer (born 1794) (suicide)

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1840 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1840.

Events

 * February 11 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris.
 * April 2 – Première of Ferdinand Hiller's oratorio, Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, at the Leipzig Gewandhaus; Robert Schumann is in the audience.
 * June 9 – Franz Liszt gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms.
 * c. June - Felix Mendelssohn releases his score for String Quartet No. 3 in D Major.
 * August 6 – First major public performance since the death of Johann Sebastian Bach of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to him, given by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig; Robert Schumann is in the audience.
 * c. October – Richard Wagner is committed to debtors' prison in France while completing his opera Rienzi.
 * Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe.  He also marries Clara Wieck.
 * The first harmonium is built.
 * Anton Schindler's biography of Ludwig van Beethoven is published.
 * Michele Carafa becomes Professor of Counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire.
 * Édouard Batiste and François Bazin share the Prix de Rome.

Popular music

 * Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
 * Robert Lucas de Pearsall – "Lay a garland"

Classical music

 * Hector Berlioz - Grande symphonie funebre et triomphale 26 July
 * Johannes Bernards van Bree - String Quartet No. 2
 * Johanna Kinkel - Don Ramiro, Op. 13
 * Felix Mendelssohn – Lobgesang (Symphony No. 2 in B-flat Major)
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer - Nella
 * Robert Schumann
 * Liederkreis, Op. 24
 * Myrthen, Op. 25
 * Lieder und Gesänge volume, Op. 27
 * 3 Gedichte, Op. 29
 * 3 Gedichte, Op. 30
 * 3 Gesänge, Op. 31
 * 6 Lieder, Op. 33
 * 4 Duets, Op. 34
 * 12 Gedichte, Op. 35
 * 6 Gedichte, Op. 36
 * Liederkreis, Op. 39
 * 5 Lieder, Op. 40
 * Frauenliebe und -leben, Op. 42
 * 3 Duets, Op. 43
 * Romanzen & Balladen volume I, Op. 45
 * Dichterliebe, Op. 48
 * Romanzen & Balladen volume II, Op. 49
 * Romanzen & Balladen volume III, Op. 53
 * Belsatzar, ballad, Op. 57

 * Louis Spohr – Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"

Opera

 * Gaetano Donizetti – "La Favorite" and La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)
 * Albert Lortzing – Hans Sachs
 * Temistocle Solera – Ildegonda
 * Giuseppe Verdi – Un giorno di regno

Births

 * January 18 – Ernst Rudorff, composer and music teacher (d. 1918)
 * February 2 – Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray, pianist and composer (d. 1910)
 * February 12 – Philippe Decker, conductor and composer (d. 1881)
 * February 22 - Samuel de Lange, composer and educator (d. 1911)
 * February 24 – Auguste Götze, German classical singer and vocal pedagogue (d. 1908)
 * March 8 – Franco Faccio, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
 * April 12 – Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist (d. 1910)
 * May 7 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer (d. 1893)
 * May 9 – Blanche d'Antigny, singer and actress (d. 1874)
 * August 1 – Franz Simandl, double-bassist and teacher (d. 1912)
 * August 28 – Ira D. Sankey, gospel singer and composer (d. 1908)
 * September 14 – George Whiting, composer (d. 1923)
 * September 30 – Johan Svendsen, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1911)
 * October 18 – Roberto Stagno, operatic tenor (d. 1897)
 * December 7 – Hermann Goetz, composer (d. 1876)
 * December 17 – C. F. E. Horneman, composer (d. 1906)

Deaths

 * March 20 – Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, lawyer and musician, 68
 * May 1 – Giuditta Grisi, operatic mezzo-soprano, 34
 * May 10 – Catterino Cavos, organist, conductor and composer, 64
 * May 25 – Nikolai Lavrov, operatic baritone, 37
 * May 27 – Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer, 57
 * June 5 – William Dance, pianist and violinist, 84
 * June 16 – Joseph Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer, 49
 * September 15 - Franz Pecháček, violinist and composer, 47
 * November 19 – Johann Michael Vogl, baritone and composer, 72

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1839 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1839.

Events

 * March 21 – Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first known performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony
 * November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, opens at La Scala, Milan.

Classical music

 * Hector Berlioz – Romeo et Juliette
 * Frédéric Chopin
 * Ballade No. 2
 * Scherzo No. 3
 * Piano Sonata No. 2
 * Mikhail Glinka
 * La séparation
 * Polonaise
 * Valse-Fantasie
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ (published posthumously)
 * Joseph Lanner – Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
 * Franz Liszt
 * Valse mélancolique, S.210
 * Angiolin dal biondo crin, S.269
 * Fantaisie sur des motifs favoris de l'opéra 'La sonnambula', S.393
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * 6 Gesänge, Op. 47
 * Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
 * "Liebe und Wein"
 * Robert Schumann:
 * Arabesque in C, Op. 18
 * Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in D♭, Op. 19
 * Humoreske in B♭, Op. 20
 * 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23
 * Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
 * 3 Romances, Op. 28 (B♭ minor, F♯, B)
 * Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 14 in A minor, Op. 110 "Sonst und Jetzt"

Opera

 * Alexander Dargomyzhsky – Esmeralda
 * Gaetano Donizetti
 * L'Ange de Nisida
 * Il duca d'Alba (composed, premiered 1882)
 * Giuseppe Lillo – Il conte di Chalais
 * Giuseppe Verdi – Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio

Published popular music

 * "Kathleen Mavourneen" w. Annie Barry Crawford m. Frederick William Nicholls Crouch

Births

 * January 1 – James Ryder Randall, popular songwriter
 * January 9 – John Knowles Paine, composer and musicologist
 * February 7 – Elie Miriam Delaborde, editor and pianist (died 1913)
 * April 18 – Lotten Edholm, composer
 * March 2 – Victoria Bundsen, alto
 * March 10 – Dudley Buck, American composer and organist
 * March 17 – Josef Rheinberger, composer (d. 1901)
 * March 19 – Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
 * March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky, composer (d. 1881)
 * April 12 – Victorin de Joncières, composer and music critic (d. 1903)
 * May 19 – Alice Mary Smith, composer (d. 1884)
 * July 14 – Sydney Smith, English composer and pianist
 * August 24 – Eduard Nápravník, composer (d. 1916)
 * November 24 – James Warren York, businessman, musical instrument maker

Deaths

 * February 16 – Ludwig Berger, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1777)
 * March 8 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
 * April 20 – Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
 * May 3 – Ferdinando Paer, composer (b. 1771)
 * June 8 – Aloysia Weber, operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
 * June 11 – Regina Strinasacchi, violinist (b. c. 1761)
 * June 14 – Nicolas Mori, violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
 * June 15 – Hans Skramstad, pianist and composer (b. 1797)
 * July 10 – Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
 * September 21 – Gottfried Weber, music theorist (b. 1779)
 * December 7 – Jan August Vitásek, composer (b. 1770)

Awards

 * Prix de Rome – Charles Gounod

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