1844 in music

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See also: 1843 in music, other events of 1844, 1845 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

[edit] Events

• November 25 - The Bohemian Girl music by Michael William Balfe and libretto by Alfred Bunn has its American premiere at the Park Theatre, New York.

[edit] Popular music

• "Open Thy Lattice, Love" w. George P. Morris m. Stephen Collins Foster
• "Skip To My Lou" Trad. US

[edit] Classical music

• Henry Charles Litolff - Concerto Symphonique No 2 in B minor, Op. 22
• Felix Mendelssohn
  • Spring Song m.
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture (including the Wedding March)

[edit] Opera

• Georges Bousquet - L'Hôtesse de Lyon
• Friedrich Flotow - Alessandro Stradella
• Giuseppe Verdi - Hernani

[edit] Births

• February 21 - Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
• March - Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer
• March 18 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
• April 9 - László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel

[edit] Deaths

• April 8 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel
• May 21 - Giuseppe Baini, church composer
• July 29 - Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, pianist and composer, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• December 9 - Franz Seraph von Destouches, composer
• unknown date - Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader