1847 in music
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[edit] Events
- February 28 - Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes.
- March 14 - Verdi's Macbeth (opera) premieres at Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy.
- Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.
[edit] Popular music
- Adolphe Adam - "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night")
[edit] Classical music
[edit] Opera
- Francisco Asenjo Barbieri - Il Buontemponi
- Hector Berlioz - The Damnation Of Faust
- Giovanni Bottesini - Cristoforo Colombo
- Friedrich von Flotow - Martha
- Ivar Hallstrom - Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg)
- Karel Miry - Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent)
- Giuseppe Verdi - Macbeth
- William Vincent Wallace - Matilda of Hungary
[edit] Births
- February 15 - Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
- March 2 - Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
- July 12 - Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
- July 21 - Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
- October 21 - Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
- November 1 - Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
- November 30 - August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- December 1 - Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- date unknown - Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)
[edit] Deaths
- April 23 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (b. 1783)
- May 14 - Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (b. 1805) (stroke)
- June - Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (b. 1784)
- June 18 - Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (b. 1770)
- July 19 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (b. 1772)
- September 4 - František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (b. 1769)
- November 4 - Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1809)
- date unknown - Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)
