1840 in music

See also:1839 in music,other events of 1840, 1841 in music and thelist of 'years in music'.

Events

• February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris
• Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe. He also marries Clara Wieck.
• The first harmonium is built.
• Franz Liszt gives the first piano recital, in London's Hanover Square Rooms on 9 June.
• Schindler's biography of Beethoven is published.

Popular music

• "The Old Arm Chair"     w. Eliza Cook m. Henry Russell

Classical music

• Felix Mendelssohn - Symphony No. 2 in B Flat Major, "Lobgesang"
• Louis Spohr - Symphony no 6 in G major, Op. 116 "Historical"

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti - "La Favourite" and La Fille du Régiment (The Daughter of the Regiment)
• Albert Lortzing - Hans Sachs
• Temistocle Solera - Ildegonda
• Giuseppe Verdi - Un giorno di regno

Births

• April 12 - Franz Xaver Haberl, musicologist
• May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composer
• August 28 - Ira D. Sankey

Deaths

• May 27 - Niccolò Paganini, violinist and composer
• November 19 - Johann Michael Vogl, singer and composer
• date unknown - Wojciech Adalbert Żywny, pianist and violinist, teacher of Chopin

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