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.
- December 21 – "Kde domov můj", with music by František Škroup and words by Josef Kajetán Tyl, which will become the national anthem of the Czech Republic, originates as a part of the incidental music to the comedy Fidlovačka aneb Žádný hněv a žádná rvačka, first performed by Karel Strakatý at the Estates Theatre in Prague, at this time subject to the Habsburg monarchy.
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator
- January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer
- January 23 – Josef Löw, composer
- January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar
- February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone
- March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor
- March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer
- March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist
- April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer
- April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician
- May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer
- June 8 – George Garrett, composer
- June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer
- June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer
- August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer
- August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer
- August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer
- August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer
- October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer
- October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer
- October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist
- October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns
- November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist
- November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer
- November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist
- November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician
- December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist
- December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer
- date unknown
- *David Braham, composer
- *Harry McCarthy, songwriter
Deaths
- January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist
- February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer
- April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist
- June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist
- September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer
- August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer
- October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer
- December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer
- date unknown
- *Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer
- *August Duranowski, violinist and composer
- *Filip Višnjić, gusle player