1847 in music
Events
Publications
Popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 1 â Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915)
- February 15 â Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927)
- March 2 â Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912)
- March 9 â Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932)
- June 28 â Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927)
- July 12 â Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922)
- July 21 â VÃÂctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921)
- October 21 â Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906)
- November 1 â Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930)
- November 30 â August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- December 1 â Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907)
- December 9 â George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912)
- December 18 â Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903)
- December 28 â James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931)
- date unknown â Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894)
Deaths
- January 6 â Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)
- April 23 â Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
- May 14 â Fanny Hensel, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)
- June 11 â Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784)
- June 18 â Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770)
- July 19 â Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772)
- September 4 â FrantiÃ
¡ek Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
- September 25 â Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)
- November 4 â Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)
- November 20 â Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)
- date unknown â Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)
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