1829 in music

See also:1828 in music,other events of 1829, 1830 in music and thelist of 'years in music'.

Events

• Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bach's St Matthew Passion at Berlin

Popular music

Classical music

• Norbert Burgmüller - Piano Concerto in F sharp
• Fanny Hensel - Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A flat major

Opera

• Michael William Balfe - I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini - Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

• January 24 - William Mason, composer
• March 6 - Heinrich Lichner, composer
• May 8 - Louis Gottschalk, pianist and composer
• November 28 - Anton Rubinstein

Deaths

• January 25 - William Shield, violinist and composer
• February 16 - François Joseph Gossec, composer
• October 29 - Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• December 7 - Johann Christoph Kienlen
• December 14 - Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer

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