# 1827 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1827.

## 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 (cantata)
* 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 (for guitar), Op. 125
* Fanny Hensel – 6 Lieder, Op.9, Nos. 1, "Die Ersehnte" and 5 "Der Maiabend"
* Ferdinand Hiller
** "Le sénateur" (dated June 22)
** "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 (dated May 31)
** 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 (song cycle)
** 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 (Singspiel)

## Opera

* Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata
* Louise Bertin – Le loup-garou
* Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
* Felix Mendelssohn – Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Op.10 (premiered April 29 in Berlin)
* 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 (d. 1903)
* January 16 (or 17) – Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
* February 2 – Ludwig Eichrodt, lyricist (died 1892)
* February 9 – Auguste Dupont, composer (died 1890)
* February 12 – Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, composer (died 1908)
* February 14 – José Costa, composer (died 1881)
* February 18 – Marc Burty, music teacher and composer (died 1903)
* March 5
** Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
** Emile Jonas, composer (died 1905)
* March 26 – Emanuel Kania, composer (died 1887)
* April 15 – Julius Tausch, composer (died 1895)
* April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
* May 11 – Septimus Winner, composer (died 1902)
* August 20 (or 22) – Josef Strauss, waltz composer (d. 1870)
* August 22 – Edouard Silas, composer (died 1909)
* August 23 – Simon Waley, composer (died 1875)
* September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
* September 13 – Catherine Winkworth, hymnist (died 1878)
* October 6 – Karl Riedel, conductor (died 1888)
* November 7 – Theodor Bernhard Sick, composer (died 1893)
* November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
* November 20 – Edmond Dédé, composer (died 1903)
* November 26 – Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (d. 1872)
* December 24 – Lisa Cristiani, cellist (died 1853)
* December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)
* date unknown
** Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
** George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher (d. 1893)

## Deaths

* January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
* January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
* February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
* February 11 – José Lidon, composer and musician (born 1748)
* February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
* March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
* March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
* April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
* May 9 – Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, composer (born 1780)
* June 4 – Stephan von Breuning, librettist (born 1774)
* July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
* July 25 – Gottfried Christoph Härtel, music publisher (born 1763)
* August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
* August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
* August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
* August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
* September 8 – Reginald Spofforth, composer (b. 1769)
* September 30 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (born 1794)
* November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
* November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem (b. 1763)
* November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
* date unknown
** James Hook, composer (b. 1746)
** Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)