# 1829 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1829.

## Events

* March 11 – The German composer Felix Mendelssohn (age 20) conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
* April–September – Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This visit included the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.
* July – George Washington Dixon popularizes "Coal Black Rose" singing in blackface in New York City.
* December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes her house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
* Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy in Warsaw which will later be named after him. He also hears Paganini perform and begins writing his Etudes.

## Popular music

* "There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw

## Classical music

* Hector Berlioz – La Mort de Cleopatre
* Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
* Frederic Chopin
** Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op. 3
** Piano Trio Op. 8
** Étude Op. 10, No. 8
** Étude Op. 10, No. 9
** Étude Op. 10, No. 10
** Étude Op. 10, No. 11
** Piano Concerto No. 2
* Carl Czerny
** Piano Trio No.2, Op.166
** Sonatina in A major, Op.167
** Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte, Op.200
* Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A-flat major
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Gesellschafts Rondo, Op.117
* Friedrich Kuhlau
** Fantaisie, Op.93
** Introduction and Rondo on 'Le Colporteur', Op.98a
** 3 Brilliant Duos for 2 Flutes, Op.102
** 7 Variations on an Irish Folksong, Op.105
* Caspar Kummer
** Adagio et Variations sur un Thême de l’Opéra : Armida, de Rossini, p. Cor de Bassette avec Orchestre, Op. 45
** 2 Duos for Flute and Clarinet, Op.46
** Flute Trio, Op.53
* Joseph Merk – Valses brillantes, Op.6
* Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture

## Opera

* Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
* Gioacchino Rossini – William Tell first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

## Births

* January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
* February 4 – Marquis d'Ivry, composer (died 1903)
* February 11 – Camillo Walzel, librettist (died 1895)
* March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
* May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
* May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
* June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
* June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
* August 7 – Timoteo Pasini, composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1888)
* August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
* August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
* August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
* October 6 – Josef Gänsbacher, music educator (died 1911)
* November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
* date unknown
** Fritz Andersen, composer (died 1910)

## Deaths

* January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
* January 30 – Friedrich Haug, lyricist (born 1761)
* February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
* February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
* April 28 – Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, composer (born 1763)
* May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
* August 15 – Christian Gottlieb Scheidler, composer (born 1747)
* August 16 – Carl Gotthelf Gläser, hymnist (born 1784)
* October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
* December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)