# 1837 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1837.

## Events

* March 31 – Franz Liszt and Sigismond Thalberg play a musical 'duel' at a charity event for refugees of the Italian war of independence at the home of Countess Belgiojoso.
* June 11 – Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
* Pauline Viardot (as Pauline García) makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

## Publications

* François-Joseph Fétis – Traité du chant en choeur (Paris)

## Published popular music

* "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt
* "Woodman, Spare That Tree!", words by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell

## Classical music

* Charles-Valentin Alkan – 3 Morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15
* Ludwig Berger – 15 Etudes, Op.33
* Charles-Auguste de Bériot – Violin Concerto No. 1, Op.16
* Hector Berlioz – Grande Messe des Morts
* Frédéric Chopin
** Hexaméron: Variation No. 6
** Nocturne in C minor, B. 108
** Largo in E-flat major, B. 109
** Impromptu No. 1, Op. 29
** Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31
** Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35, III
* Fanny Ellsler – 3 Airs de Ballet
* Adolf von Henselt
** Romance, Op. 10
** Variations de concert sur le motif de l'opéra 'L'elisir d'amore', Op. 1
* Franz Liszt
** Grandes études, S. 137
** Album d'un voyageur, S. 156
** Hexaméron, S. 392
** Soirées musicales de Rossini, S. 424
** 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S. 558
* Felix Mendelssohn
** 6 Gesänge, Op.34
** Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40
** Psalm 42 for choir and orchestra, Op. 42
** 6 Lieder, Op. 50
** String Quartet No. 4 in E minor
* Carl Gottlieb Reissiger
** 3 String Quartets, Op.111
** 4 Gesänge, Op.117
* Robert Schumann
** Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
** Études symphoniques, Op. 13
* Johann Strauss Sr. – Cachucha-Galopp, Op.97
* Sigismond Thalberg
** 12 Etudes, Op.26
** Grand Fantasia on 'God save the Queen' and 'Rule Britannia', Op.27

## Opera

* Daniel Auber – The Black Domino (with libretto by Eugène Scribe)
* Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux
* Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila (composition began, premiered in 1842)
* Albert Lortzing – Zar und Zimmermann
* Gaspare Spontini – Agnes von Hohenstaufen

## Births

* January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
* January 12 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1879)
* January 27 – Carlotta Ferrari, composer (died 1907)
* February 23 – Rosalía de Castro, lyricist (died 1885)
* March 12 – Alexandre Guilmant, organist (died 1911)
* March 15 – Célestine Galli-Marié, operatic mezzo-soprano, the original Carmen (d. 1905)
* April 13 – Julius Weissenborn, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer (d. 1888)
* April 18 – Armand Silvestre, librettist (died 1901)
* May 23 – Józef Wieniawski, pianist (died 1912)
* June 1 – Ferdinand Quentin Dulcken, English (later American) pianist and composer (d. 1901)
* June 25 – Josef Werner, composer (died 1922)
* July 6 – Władysław Żeleński, composer (died 1921)
* July 30 – Signe Hebbe, operatic soprano (d. 1925)
* August 24
** Théodore Dubois, organist and composer (d. 1924)
** Adolf Wilbrandt, writer and lyricist (died 1911)
* September 19 – Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer (died 1914)
* December 7 – Édouard Mangin, musician (died 1907)
* December 9 – Emile Waldteufel, pianist and composer (d. 1915)
* December 24 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (d. 1930)
* December 30 – Ida Marie Lipsius, music writer (d. 1927)
* date unknown
** Fred Godfrey, English bandmaster and music arranger (d. 1882)
** Kate Santley, actress and singer (d. 1923)
** La Serneta, flamenco singer (d. 1910)

## Deaths

* January 23 – John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)
* February 10 – Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and librettist (born 1799)
* April 9 – Polly Cuninghame, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
* May 5
** Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (b. 1752)
** Salvatore Fighera, composer (b. 1771)
* June 16 – Valentino Fioravanti, opera buffa composer (b. 1764)
* July 28 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (b. 1754)
* August 6 – Johann Nepomuk Schelble, composer (b. 1789)
* October 6 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
* October 11 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley
* October 17 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer (b. 1778)
* October 28 – Jean-Blaise Martin, opera singer (b. 1768)
* date unknown
** Franz Joseph Antony, organist and choral composer (b. 1790)
** Jean Théodore Latour, composer for piano (b. 1766)
** Christina Rahm, opera singer (b. c. 1760)