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Overview of the events of 1842 in music
Adolphe Adam – La jolie fille de Gand , Ballet premiered June 22 in ParisJacob Arcadelt – Ave MariaHector Berlioz
Rêverie et Caprice, H 88, premiered February 1 in Paris
La mort d'Ophélie, H 92, composition begun Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Sinfonie sérieuse"
Symphony No. 2 in D "Sinfonie capricieuse"Ernste und heitere Grillen , for orchestraErinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen , for orchestraFestival of the Bayadères Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – Messe du jour de Noel , Op.11Anton Bruckner – Windhaager Messe, WAB 25Frédéric Chopin
Carl Czerny – Nocturne, Op.647Friedrich Dotzauer – 24 Études journalières, Op.155Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
Boléro, Op.16
Polonaise, Op.17
Feuillet d'album August Freyer – Concert-Fantasie, Op.1Niels Gade
3 Nordiske Tonebilleder, Op.4
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.34Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, Op.24Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Overture No.10, Op.142Joseph Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer Franz Liszt – Ave Maria I, S.20Felix Mendelssohn
Gioachino Rossini – Stabat MaterRobert Schumann
Louis Spohr – Piano Sonata Op. 125Vaclav Veit – Concert-Ouverture, Op.17Henri Vieuxtemps – Le PapillonDaniel François Esprit Auber – Le duc d'Olonne , premiered February 4 in ParisGaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix Theater am Kärntnertor , ViennaMikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila (Old Style ) at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro , Op.71Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz Leipzig Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco La Scala , MilanRichard Wagner – Rienzi Hofoper , Dresden February 24 – Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (died 1918)February 25 – Karl May , lyricist (died 1912)March 10 – Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (died 1912)March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé , lyricist (died 1898)March 22 – Carl Rosa , musical impresario (died 1889)April 14 – Sven August Körling , composer of art songs (died 1919)April 29 – Carl Millöcker , composer (died 1899)May 3 – Sophus Hagen , composer (died 1929)May 12 – Jules Massenet , opera composer (died 1912)May 13 – Arthur Sullivan , composer (died 1900)May 14 – Alphons Czibulka , pianist, conductor and composer (died 1894)May 17 – Henry Cotter Nixon , pianist (died 1907)May 23 – Maria Konopnicka , lyricist (died 1910)June 4 – Samuel Brenton Whitney , organist (died 1914)June 7 – Henri Gobbi , composer (died 1920)June 12 – Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (died 1866)June 19 – Carl Zeller , Austrian composer (died 1898)June 29 – Josef Labor , composer (died 1924)July 4 – Gyula Erkel [hu ] , Hungarian composer (died 1909), son of Ferenc Erkel July 16 – Eugen Maria Albrecht , composer (died 1894)July 29 – Charles Collette , actor and composer (died 1924)September 12 – Marianne Brandt , operatic contralto (died 1921)September 13 – Ödön Mihalovich , composer (died 1929)September 24 – Emma Livry , ballerina (died 1863)October 13 – Antonio Pasculli , oboist and composer (died 1924)October 26 – Hugo Alpen , composer (died 1917)November 8 – Eugen Gura , operatic baritone (died 1906)November 24
December 6 – Pavel Viskovatov , librettist (died 1905)date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar , composer of Carnatic music (died 1909)January 7 – Joseph Czerny , composer (born 1785)January 9 – Alexandre Duval , librettist and actor (born 1767)January 19 – Heinrich Anton Hoffmann , violinist (born 1770)March 6 – Constanze Mozart , widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1762)[ 4] March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig , composer and conductor (born 1780)March 15 – Luigi Cherubini , composer (born 1760)[ 5] April 6 – Johann Anton André , composer and music publisher (born 1775)April 14 – Jean-Nicolas Bouilly , librettist (born 1763)April 26 – Louis Bocquillon , composer (born 1781)May 5 – Jean Elleviou , operatic tenor (born 1769)June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke , librettist (born 1776)June 18 – Tobias Haslinger , composer (born 1787)June 20 – Michael Umlauf , violinist and composer (born 1781)July 23 – Timothy Swan , hat-maker and composer (born 1758)August 21 – Johann Friedrich Leopold Duncker , lyricist (born 1768)August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny , composer and music theorist (born 1762)September 15 – Pierre Baillot , violinist and composer (born 1771)[ 6] October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , composer (born 1774)November 3 – Franz Clement , violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (born 1780)November 17 – Luigi Capotorti , Italian composer (born 1767)[ 7] December 16 – Friedrich Rochlitz , musicologist (born 1769)December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini , composer (born 1762)December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber , composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766)
