1835 in music explained

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.^[1]
• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[1]
• June 4 – Franz Liszt joins his mistress, Marie d'Agoult, in Basel, Switzerland.^[1]
• 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.^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• 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)

Notes and References

1. http://musicandhistory.com/component/content/article/2-years/94-1835.html?qh=YToxOntpOjA7aToxODM1O30%3D MusicAndHistory.com: 1835
2. Book: Randel . Don Michael . The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 30 October 2002 . Harvard University Press . 978-0-674-25572-2 . 866 . en.