1833 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1833.
Events
- February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
- May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there he withdraws it for revision.
- July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
- October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
- December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.
- Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
- Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.
Popular music
Classical music
- Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
- William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
- Hector Berlioz – Overture 'King Lear', H 53, premiered December 22 in Paris
- Frédéric Chopin
- *Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18
- *Boléro, Op. 19
- Carl Czerny
- *Divertissement de concert, Op.204
- *Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281
- *Piano Trio No.4, Op.289
- *The Art of Preluding, Op.300
- Anton Diabelli – Grande Sonate brillante pour le Pianoforte et Guitare, Op.102
- Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- *Gegenwart. Allegro Moderato H-U 270
- *In Die Ferne. Allegretto Affettuoso H-U 271
- Ferdinand Hiller – Neuer Frühling, Op.16
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
- Georg Kopprasch – 60 Etudes for High-Horn, Op.5
- Franz Liszt – Malédiction, S.121
- Joseph Mayseder – String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op.51
- Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
- Joseph Merk – 20 Exercises for Cello, Op.11
- Sigismond Neukomm – "Fantaisie dramatique on some pages of Milton’s Paradise lost"
- Józef Nowakowski – Piano Quintet, Op. 17
- George Onslow
- *String Quartet No.22, Op.47
- *Symphony No. 3 in F minor
- Carl Gottlieb Reissiger – Piano Trio No.7, Op.85
- Clara Schumann – Romance variée, Op.3
- Robert Schumann – 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
- Louis Spohr – String Quintet No.4, Op.91
- Johann Strauss Sr
- *Fra Diavolo, Op.41
- *Die vier Temperamente, Op.59
- *Carnevals-Spende, Op.60
- *Tausendsapperment Walzer, Op.61
- Sigismond Thalberg – Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra 'La straniera', Op.9
Opera
- Daniel François Esprit Auber – Gustave III, premiered February 27 in Paris
- Vincenzo Bellini – Beatrice di Tenda, premiered March 16 in Venice
- Hector Berlioz – Les francs-juges, H 23, last revision
- Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia, premiered December 26 in Milan
- Heinrich Marschner – ''Hans Heiling''
Births
- January 17 – Theodor Bradsky, composer
- January 26 – Grenville Dean Wilson, composer
- February 12 – Charles-Wilfrid Bériot, pianist
- February 13 – James William Elliott, nursery rhyme composer
- March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer
- March 13 – Nikolay Zverev, pianist
- March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer
- March 23 – Franz Bendel, pianist
- April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano
- May 1 – Theodor Krause, composer
- May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist
- May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer
- May 9
- *Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher
- *Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer
- May 11 – Jean Becker, violinist
- May 26 – Merian Genast, vocalist
- June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist
- June 8 – Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, composer
- June 20 – Anton Door, pianist
- June 27 – Vladyslav Zaremba, composer and pianist
- July 26 – Otto Singer, composer
- September 14 – Francis Edward Bache, organist
- September 19 – Ludwig von Brenner, conductor
- September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer
- October 14 – William George Cusins, composer
- October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto
- November 6 – Wilhelm Ganz, composer
- November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer
- date unknown
- *Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer
- *Mathilda Enequist, opera singer
Deaths
- January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer
- January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer
- January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano
- March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer
- April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician
- April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, lyricist
- May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker
- May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer
- May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer
- July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician
- September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer
- October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano
- October 15 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer and Polish diplomat
- November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer