1827 in music

Events

• March 29 – The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.
• April 5 – Pope Leo XII honours Nicolo Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur.
• April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
• date unknown
• *Franz Liszt moves to Paris after the death of his father. He will live there for the next five years. He plays a concert in London that was attended by Ignaz Moscheles.
• *François Dauverné becomes one of the first musicians to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.
• *Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
• *The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.
• *Soprano Laure-Cinthie Montalant marries the tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau.
• *The Zagreb Music Association is founded; one of its earliest members is Ivan Padovec.

Popular music

• "I'd Be a Butterfly" w.m. Thomas Haynes Bayly

Classical music

• Dionisio Aguado – 4 Rondos brillants, Op. 2
• Hector Berlioz – La mort d’Orphée
• Frederic Chopin – Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" Op. 2
• Carl Czerny
• *3 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op. 104
• *Piano Sonata Nos.6–9, Opp. 124, 143–145
• *Grande Serenade concertante, Op.126
• *100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139
• *Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op. 153
• Mauro Giuliani – 6 Airs Irlandois nationales variées, Op. 125
• Fanny Hensel – 6 Lieder, Op.9, Nos. 1, "Die Ersehnte" and 5 "Der Maiabend"
• Ferdinand Hiller
• *"Le sénateur"
• *"Wandrers Nachtlied"
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Symphony No.1, Op. 7
• Friedrich Kuhlau
• *Flute Sonata, Op. 85
• *4 Sonatinas, Op. 88
• Kaspar Kummer – Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
• Franz Liszt – Scherzo in G minor, S.153
• Felix Mendelssohn
• *7 Charakterstücke, Op.7
• *String Quartet No.2, Op.13
• *The Last Rose of Summer, Op.15
• *Piano Sonata No.3, Op.106
• *Tu es Petrus, Op.111
• *Christe, du Lamm Gottes, MWV 5
• Ferdinand Ries
• *Polonaise No.4, Op.140
• *3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 2 in G major
• Pierre Rode – Violin Concerto No.11 in D major, Op. 23
• Franz Schubert
• *Winterreise
• *Piano Trio No. 1
• *Piano Trio No. 2
• *Im Abendrot, D.799
• *Impromptus, D.899 and D.935
• *3 Gesänge, D.902
• *Zur guten Nacht, D.903
• *Alinde, D.904
• *An die Laute, D.905
• *Variations on a Theme from Herold's 'Marie', D. 908
• *Phantasie for violin and piano in C major, D.934
• *12 Valses nobles, D. 969
• Ignaz Seyfried – Libera me Domine, continuation of Mozart's Requiem
• Louis Spohr
• *Violin Concerto No.11, Op. 70
• *Double String Quartet No.2, Op.77
• Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse – ''Et Eventyr i Rosenborg Have''

Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata
• Louise Bertin – Le loup-garou
• Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
• Felix Mendelssohn – Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Op.10
• Giovanni Pacini – Margherita regina d'Inghilterra
• Louis Spohr – Pietro von Abano, premiered Oct. 13 in Kassel.

Births

• January 14 – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band
• January 16 – Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor
• February 2 – Ludwig Eichrodt, lyricist
• February 9 – Auguste Dupont, composer
• February 12 – Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, composer
• February 14 – José Costa, composer
• February 18 – Marc Burty, music teacher and composer
• March 5
• *Hans Balatka, composer
• *Emile Jonas, composer
• March 26 – Emanuel Kania, composer
• April 15 – Julius Tausch, composer
• April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer
• May 11 – Septimus Winner, composer
• August 20 – Josef Strauss, waltz composer
• August 22 – Edouard Silas, composer
• August 23 – Simon Waley, composer
• September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem
• September 13 – Catherine Winkworth, hymnist
• October 6 – Karl Riedel, conductor
• November 7 – Theodor Bernhard Sick, composer
• November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer
• November 20 – Edmond Dédé, composer
• November 26 – Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger
• December 24 – Lisa Cristiani, cellist
• December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano
• date unknown
• *Martino Frontini, composer
• *George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher

Deaths

• January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer
• January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
• February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer
• February 11 – José Lidon, composer and musician
• February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer
• March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer
• March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
• April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics"
• May 9 – Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, composer
• June 4 – Stephan von Breuning, librettist
• July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor
• July 25 – Gottfried Christoph Härtel, music publisher
• August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher
• August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem
• August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter
• August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt
• September 8 – Reginald Spofforth, composer
• September 30 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist
• November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist
• November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem
• November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer
• date unknown
• *James Hook, composer
• *Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music