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See also: 1827 in music, other events of 1828, 1829 in music and the list of 'years in music'. See also: 1826 in music, other events of 1827, 1828 in music and the list of years in music. // Events Rossinis mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna. ... 1828 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... See also: 1828 in music, other events of 1829, 1830 in music and the list of years in music. Events Felix Mendelssohn conducts Bachs St Matthew Passion at Berlin Popular music Opera Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. ... This page indexes the individual year in music pages. ...

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Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797 - 1839) was a miscellaneous writer, son of a wealthy lawyer in Bath. ... Felicia Hemans Felicia Hemans (September 25, 1793 - 1835), was a British poet. ...

Classical Music

Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (January 31, 1797 – November 19, 1828), was an Austrian composer, considered the last master of the Viennese Classical school and one of the earliest proponents of musical Romanticism. ...

Opera

This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Daniel François Esprit Auber (January 29, 1782 - May 13, 1871), French composer, the son of a Paris print-seller, was born in Caen in Normandy. ... Heinrich Marschner (b. ... Portrait Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (February 29, 1792 – November 13, 1868) was an Italian musical composer who wrote more than 30 operas as well as sacred music and chamber music. ... Augustin Eugène Scribe (December 24, 1791 - February 20, 1861), was a French dramatist and librettist. ...

Births

  • January 24 - Karol Studzinski, composer
  • February 8 - Antonio Cagnoni, composer
  • April 5 - Pietro Plantania, composer
  • April 22 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer
  • June 2 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
  • June 3 - Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise and Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composers
  • August 17 - George William Warren, composer
  • August 26 - Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer

January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... June 3 is the 154th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (155th in leap years), with 211 days remaining. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ...

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Franz Schubert Biography - famous Franz Schubert Classical collection and Franz Schubert Music Reviews. (1417 words)
The son of a schoolmaster who had settled in Vienna, Franz Schubert was educated as a chorister of the imperial court chapel and later qualified as a schoolteacher, briefly and thereafter intermittently joining his father in the classroom.
His final years were clouded by illness, as the result of a syphilitic infection, and he died in 1828, leaving much unfinished.
Of Schubert's various string quartets the Quartet in A minor, with its variations on the well known Rosamunde theme and the Quartet in D minor, Death and the Maiden, with variations on the song of that name, are the most familiar.
Wikipedia: List of musical events (1292 words)
See also: Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949), Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present)
1967 in music - The Beatles release Sgt.
1786 in music - Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
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