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Overview of the events of 1840 in music
Overview of the events of 1840 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1840.
Events
Popular music
- Henry Russell (music) & Eliza Cook (lyrics) – "The Old Arm Chair"
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Classical music
- Louis Spohr – Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"
Opera
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)
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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