title: 1841 in music
text: # 1841 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 13 – The first Dresden opera house in Germany opens with the performance of a work by Carl Maria von Weber.
  * Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, opus 38 (also called the "Spring" symphony), and Symphony No. 4 in D minor, opus 120. (The D-minor symphony is edited extensively by Schumann in 1851, and thus is given a much later opus number and subsequently referred to as No. 4, although it is actually his second.)
  * Tenor Domenico Donzelli retires from the stage.
  * Nikolay Afanas'yev resigns as concertmaster of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra in order to conduct the serf orchestra of a wealthy landowner at Vïksa, near St Petersburg.
  
  ## Popular music
  
  * August Heinrich Hoffmann – "Deutschlandlied" (to music written in 1797 by Joseph Haydn)
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Adolphe Adam – Giselle (ballet)
  * Hector Berlioz
     * Rêverie et Caprice, H 88
     * Les nuits d'été
  * Frederic Chopin
     * Ballade No. 3
     * Fantaisie in F minor
  * Theodor Kullak – Cavatine de Robert le Diable
  * Friedrich August Kummer – 2 Concert Duos for Violin and Cello, Op. 67
  * Joseph Lanner – Abend-Sterne Walzer, Op.180
  * Henry Lemoine – Études enfantines, Op. 37
  * Jans Christian Lumbye – Döbler's Zauber Galop
  * Felix Mendelssohn
     * Variations sérieuses
     * Antigone, Op. 55
     * Allegro brillant, Op.92
  * Clara Schumann
     * Die gute Nacht, die ich dir sage
     * Lieder, Op. 12
  * Robert Schumann
     * Symphony No.1, Op. 38
     * Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op. 52
     * Symphony No.4, Op. 120
  * Fernando Sor
     * Le calme, Op. 50
     * Divertissement for 2 Guitars, Op. 62
  * Johann Strauss Sr
     * Amors-Pfeile, Op. 123
     * Elektrische Funken, Op. 125
  * Johannes Verhulst – Symphony in E minor
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Daniel Auber – Les diamants de la couronne
  * Michael William Balfe – Keolanthe
  * Gaetano Donizetti – Adelia
  * Fromental Halévy
     * Charles VI
     * La reine de Chypre
  * Franz Lachner – Caterina Cornaro
  * Giovanni Pacini – L'uomo del mistero
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 15 – Thorvald Lammers, singer, conductor and composer (died 1922)
  * January 18 – Emmanuel Chabrier, composer (died 1894)
  * January 23 – Sigismund Bachrich, violinist and composer (died 1913)
  * January 28 – Viktor Nessler, composer (died 1890)
  * January 31 – Michael Maybrick, composer and singer, better known as "Stephen Adams" (died 1913)
  * February 10 – Sir Walter Parratt, organist and composer (died 1924)
  * February 19
     * Elfrida Andrée, organist, conductor and composer (died 1929)
     * Felipe Pedrell, composer (died 1922)
  * March 1 – Romualdo Marenco, composer for ballet (died 1907)
  * May 15 – Giovanni Bolzoni, violinist and composer (died 1919)
  * May 21 – Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
  * May 28 – Giovanni Sgambati, Italian composer, pianist, and conductor
  * June 16 – David Popper, cellist (died 1913)
  * July 9 – Carl Christian Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye
  * July 11 – Daniël de Lange, composer (died 1918)
  * July 18 – Hedvig Willman, Swedish opera singer (died 1887)
  * September 8 – Antonín Dvořák, composer (died 1904)
  * September 26 – Signor Brocolini, opera singer (died 1906)
  * October 11 – Friedrich Hegar, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1927)
  * November 4 – Karl Tausig, pianist and composer (died 1871)
  * November 29 – Joe Wilson, singer and songwriter (died 1875)
  * December 14 – Louise Héritte-Viardot, singer (died 1918)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 25 – Maria Anna Thekla Mozart, "Marianne", cousin and correspondent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1758)
  * February 14 – Antun Sorkočević, diplomat, writer and composer (born 1775)
  * February 17 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer for guitar (born 1770)
  * May 18 – John Thomson, composer (born 1805)
  * June 12 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, archaeologist and composer (born 1786)
  * July 3 – Rosemond Mountain, actress and singer (born 1780s?)
  * August 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (born 1767)
  * August 24
     * Friedrich Curschmann, songwriter and singer (born 1805)
     * Theodore Hook, writer and composer (born 1788)
  * August 27 – Ignaz von Seyfried, conductor and composer (born 1776)
  * September 15 – Alessandro Rolla, violinist, composer and music teacher (born 1757)
  * September 16 – Thomas John Dibdin, songwriter (born 1771)
  * October 16 – Domenico Barbaia, impresario (born 1778)
  * October 28 – Francesco Morlacchi, composer (born 1784)
  * December 22 – Daniil Kashin, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1769)
  * date unknown – Justina Casagli, opera singer (born 1794) (suicide)
  