title: 1834 in music
text: # 1834 in music
  
  This article is about music-related events in 1834.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
  * October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
  * Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
  * Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon
  * J.C. Maugin – Manuel du Luthier
  
  ## Popular music
  
  * "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Charles-Valentin Alkan – Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
  * William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor
  * Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
  * Ole Bull
     * Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
     * Quartet for Solo Violin
  * Norbert Burgmuller
     * Rhapsodie in B minor for Piano, Op.13
     * Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
  * Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
  * Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
  * Felicien David
     * Fantasia harabi
     * Égyptienne
     * Vieux Caire
  * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
     * Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
     * Thème allemand varié, Op.9
     * Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
  * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
  * Friedrich Kalkbrenner
     * Les Soupirs, Op.121
     * Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
  * Karol Kurpinski – Polonaise in C major
  * Franz Paul Lachner
     * Waldklänge, Op.28
     * Symphony No.3, Op.41
  * Luigi Legnani – Grande Fantasia, Op.61
  * Franz Liszt – Apparations
  * Giacomo Meyerbeer
     * Le moine
     * Rachel à Nephtali
  * James Nares – The souls of the righteous
  * George Onslow
     * 3 String Quartets, Op.46
     * String Quartet No.22, Op.47
  * Ludwig Schunke
     * Caprice No.1, Op.9
     * Rondeau brillant, Op.11
  * František Škroup – Kde domov můj?
  * Louis Spohr – Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
  * Mikhail Vysotsky – Fuga of Bach
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Adolphe Adam – Le Chalet, premiered September 25 in Paris
  * Daniel Auber – Lestocq, premiered May 24 in Paris
  * John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
  * Gaetano Donizetti – Gemma di Vergy, premiered December 26 in Milan
  * Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
  * Saverio Mercadante
     * Emma d'Antiochia, premiered March 8 in Venice
     * Uggiero il danese
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
  * January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
  * January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
  * January 23 – Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
  * January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
  * February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
  * March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
  * March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
  * March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
  * April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
  * April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
  * May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
  * June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
  * June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
  * June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
  * August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
  * August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
  * August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
  * August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
  * October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
  * October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
  * October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
  * October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
  * November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
  * November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
  * November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
  * November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
  * December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
  * December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
  * date unknown
     * David Braham, composer (died 1905)
     * Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
  * February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
  * April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
  * June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
  * September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
  * August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
  * October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
  * December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)
  * date unknown
     * Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
     * August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
     * Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)
  