# 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" (Where My Home Is), 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 (Fidlovačka, or No Anger and No Brawl), 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

* "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
* 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)