# 1833 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1833.

## Events

* February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
* May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there he withdraws it for revision.
* July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
* October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
* December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.
* Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
* Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.

## Popular music

* "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
* "Još Hrvatska ni propala" m. Ferdo Livadić w. Ljudevit Gaj (written in 1832)

## Classical music

* Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
* William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
* Hector Berlioz – Overture 'King Lear', H 53, premiered December 22 in Paris
* Frédéric Chopin
** Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18
** Boléro, Op. 19
* Carl Czerny
** Divertissement de concert, Op.204
** Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281
** Piano Trio No.4, Op.289
** The Art of Preluding, Op.300
* Anton Diabelli – Grande Sonate brillante pour le Pianoforte et Guitare, Op.102
* Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
** Gegenwart. Allegro Moderato H-U 270
** In Die Ferne. Allegretto Affettuoso H-U 271
* Ferdinand Hiller – Neuer Frühling, Op.16
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
* Georg Kopprasch – 60 Etudes for High-Horn, Op.5
* Franz Liszt – Malédiction, S.121
* Joseph Mayseder – String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op.51
* Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
* Joseph Merk – 20 Exercises for Cello, Op.11
* Sigismond Neukomm – "Fantaisie dramatique on some pages of Milton’s Paradise lost"
* Józef Nowakowski – Piano Quintet, Op. 17
* George Onslow
** String Quartet No.22, Op.47
** Symphony No. 3 in F minor
* Carl Gottlieb Reissiger – Piano Trio No.7, Op.85
* Clara Schumann – Romance variée, Op.3
* Robert Schumann – 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
* Louis Spohr – String Quintet No.4, Op.91
* Johann Strauss Sr
** Fra Diavolo, Op.41
** Die vier Temperamente, Op.59
** Carnevals-Spende, Op.60
** Tausendsapperment Walzer, Op.61
* Sigismond Thalberg – Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra 'La straniera', Op.9

## Opera

* Daniel François Esprit Auber – Gustave III, premiered February 27 in Paris
* Vincenzo Bellini – Beatrice di Tenda, premiered March 16 in Venice
* Hector Berlioz – Les francs-juges, H 23, last revision
* Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia, premiered December 26 in Milan
* Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

## Births

* January 17 – Theodor Bradsky, composer (died 1881)
* January 26 – Grenville Dean Wilson, composer (died 1897)
* February 12 – Charles-Wilfrid Bériot, pianist (died 1914)
* February 13 – James William Elliott, nursery rhyme composer (died 1915)
* March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
* March 13 – Nikolay Zverev, pianist (died 1893)
* March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
* March 23 – Franz Bendel, pianist (died 1874)
* April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
* May 1 – Theodor Krause, composer (died 1910)
* May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
* May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
* May 9
** Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
** Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
* May 11 – Jean Becker, violinist (died 1884)
* May 26 – Merian Genast, vocalist (died 1905)
* June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
* June 8 – Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, composer (died 1901)
* June 20 – Anton Door, pianist (died 1919)
* June 27 – Vladislav Zaremba [ru], composer and pianist (b. 1902)
* July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
* September 14 – Francis Edward Bache, organist (died 1858)
* September 19 – Ludwig von Brenner, conductor (died 1902)
* September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
* October 14 – William George Cusins, composer (died 1893)
* October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
* November 6 – Wilhelm Ganz, composer (died 1914)
* November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
* date unknown
** Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
** Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)

## Deaths

* January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b 1769)
* January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
* January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
* March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
* April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
* April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, lyricist (born 1754)
* May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
* May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
* May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
* July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
* September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
* October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
* October 15 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer and Polish diplomat (born 1765)
* November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)