# 1843 in music
## Events

* February 6 – The Virginia Minstrels perform the first minstrel show (Bowery Amphitheatre, New York City).
* May 22 – Gottfried Kinkel marries fellow musician Johanna Mockel.
* November 13 – Gaetano Donizetti's next-to-last opera Dom Sébastien is premiered at the Paris Opera.
* December 26 – Following the première of his last opera, Hernani, Alberto Mazzucato retires from composing in order to become a full-time music teacher.
* Approximate date – Euphonium invented.
* August Conradi becomes organist of the Invalidenhaus, Berlin.
* Hector Berlioz writes Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes, Op. 10

## Popular music

* "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
* "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
* "Old Dan Tucker", usually attributed to Dan Emmett
* "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl

## Classical music

* Dionisio Aguado – Nuevo método para guitarra, Op. 6
* Ernesto Cavallini – Concert Fantasia on motives from 'La sonnambula'
* Frédéric Chopin
** Impromptu No. 3 in G-flat major, opus 51
** Ballade No. 4 in F minor, opus 52
** Mazurkas, Op.56
** Waltz in A minor, B.150
** Moderato in E major, B.151
* August Conradi – Symphony No. 1
* Carl Czerny – 8 Nocturnes romantiques de différents caractères, Op.604
* Carl Filtsch
** Premières pensées musicales, Op.3
** Overture for orchestra in D major
* Niels Gade – Symphony No. 2
* Miska Hauser – Mes adieux a Varsovie, Op.5
* Johanna Kinkel – 6 Lieder, Op.18
* Sebastian Lee – 40 Études mélodiques et progressives, Op.31
* Franz Liszt
** Album Leaf in E major S.166a
** Élégie sur des motifs du Prince Louis Ferdinand de Prusse, S.168
** Ländler in A-flat major, S.211
** Gaudeamus igitur, S.240
** Canzone Napolitana, S.248
** Il m'aimait tant, S.271
** Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth, S.274
** Es war ein König in Thule, S.278
** Der du von dem Himmel bist, S.279
** Die tote Nachtigall, S.291
** Réminiscences de 'Robert le diable', S.413
* Hans Christian Lumbye
** Tivolis Rutschbane Galop (dated August 11)
** Tivolis Damp-Caroussellbane Galop (dated August 26)
** Tivolis Gondol Galop (dated September 3)
* Felix Mendelssohn
** Cello Sonata No. 2 in D major, Op. 58
** Die erste Walpurgisnacht, secular cantata, opus 60 (première in Leipzig, February 2)
* Joachim Raff – 4 Galop-caprices, Op.5
* Robert Schumann − Paradise and the Peri, secular oratorio, opus 50 (premiere in Leipzig, December)
* Johann Strauss – Lorelei Rhein Klänge op. 154 ("Echoes of the Rhine Loreley")
* Pauline Viardot – Album de Mme. Viardot-Garcia

## Opera

* 27 November – Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
* Julius Benedict – The Bride of Venice
* Gaetano Donizetti – Don Pasquale
* Giovanni Pacini – Medea
* Giuseppe Verdi – I Lombardi
* Richard Wagner – The Flying Dutchman
* Fromental Halévy – Charles VI, premiered March 15 in Paris

## Births

* January 22 – Caroline Montigny-Rémaury, pianist (died 1913)
* February 6 – Frederic William Henry Myers, lyricist (died 1901)
* February 10 – Adelina Patti, soprano (died 1919)
* February 14 – Louis Diémer, pianist (died 1919)
* February 24 – Violet Fane, lyricist (died 1905)
* February 25 – Narciso Serradell, Mexican composer (died 1910)
* March 6 – Arthur Napoleão dos Santos, Brazilian pianist and composer, instrument dealer and music publisher (died 1925)
* March 16
** Louis Gregh, composer and publisher (died 1915)
** Gustave Sandré, composer (died 1916)
* April 4 – Dr. Hans Richter, conductor (died 1916)
* April 8 – Asger Hamerik, composer (died 1923)
* May 2 – Karl Michael Ziehrer, Austrian composer and bandmaster (died 1922)
* May 20 – Miguel Marqués, Spanish composer and violinist (died 1918)
* May 29 – Émile Pessard, French composer (died 1917)
* June 13 – Adolf Neuendorff, German-American composer, conductor, pianist and violinist (died 1897)
* June 15 – Edvard Grieg, Norwegian composer (died 1907)
* June 16 – David Popper, cellist and composer (died 1913)
* June 19 – Charles Edouard Lefebvre, French composer (died 1917)
* June 20 – Fyodor Stravinsky, opera singer and father of Igor Stravinsky (died 1902)
* July 9 – Ralph E. Hudson, American hymnwriter (died 1901)
* August 4 – Flor van Duyse, Belgian composer and musicologist (died 1910)
* August 5 – James Scott Skinner, Scottish dancing master, violinist, fiddler, and composer (died 1927)
* August 20 – Christina Nilsson, operatic soprano (died 1921)
* August 26 – Georg August Lumbye, Danish composer, son of Hans Christian Lumbye (died 1922)
* September 4 – Ján Levoslav Bella, Slovak composer (died 1936)
* November 2 –
** Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel (died 1893)
** Caryl Florio, composer (died 1920)
* November 16 – George Hendrik Witte, composer (died 1929)
* November 28 – Émile Bernard, French composer and organist (died 1902)
* December 3 – Franz Xaver Neruda, Danish cellist and composer (died 1915)
* December 13 – George Stephanescu, Romanian composer (died 1925)
* December 22 – Julius Bechgaard, Danish composer (died 1917)
* date unknown – Eduard Holst, Danish composer

## Deaths

* January 7 – Franz Schoberlechner, pianist (born 1797)
* January 11
** Auguste Andrade, singer (born 1793)
** Antoine Bournonville, dancer, singer and actor, 82
** Francis Scott Key, poet and songwriter, 63
* March 9 – Christian August Pohlenz, conductor and composer, 52
* April 14 – Josef Lanner, Viennese composer, 42 (typhoid)
* May 3 – Franz Xaver Gebel, conductor, composer and music teacher, 55 or 56
* May 4 – Eduard Rottmanner, organist and composer, 33
* May 12 – Johann Georg Lickl, composer and piano teacher, 74
* July – Nehemiah Shumway, composer of sacred music, 81
* July 9 – Karoline Pichler, lyricist (born 1769)
* July 24 – Carl Julius Adolph Hugo Hoffmann, composer (born 1801)
* July 29 – Domenico Reina, operatic and bel canto tenor, 47
* August 29 – Charles Jane Ashley, cellist and secretary of the Royal Society of Musicians, 70
* date unknown
** Therese Jansen Bartolozzi, pianist (born c.1770)
** Agnes Franz, lyricist (born 1794)
** Knut Luraas, Hardingfele fiddler (born 1782)