1837 in music
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This article is about music-related events in 1837.
Events
- June 11 – Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
- Pauline Viardot (as Pauline García) makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.
Captain E. G. Austin's Quick Step
Published popular music
- "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt
- "Woodman, Spare That Tree!", words by George Pope Morris, music by Henry Russell
Classical music
- Hector Berlioz – Grande Messe des Morts
- Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet #4 in E minor
Opera
- Daniel Auber – The Black Domino (with libretto by Eugène Scribe)
- Gaetano Donizetti – Roberto Devereux
- Albert Lortzing – Zar und Zimmermann
- Gaspare Spontini – Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Births
- January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
- January 12 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1879)
- April 13 – Julius Weissenborn, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer (d. 1888)
- July 30 – Signe Hebbe, operatic soprano (d. 1925)
- August 24 – Théodore Dubois, organist and composer (d. 1924)
- December 9 – Emile Waldteufel, composer (d. 1915)
- December 24 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (d. 1930)
- December 30 – Ida Marie Lipsius, music writer (d. 1927)
- date unknown
- Kate Santley, actress and singer (d. 1923)
- La Serneta, flamenco singer (d. 1910)
Deaths
- January 23 – John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)
- April 9 – Polly Cuninghame, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
- May 5 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (b. 1752)
- June 16 – Valentino Fioravanti, opera buffa composer (b. 1764)
- July 28 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (b. 1754)
- August 6 – Johann Nepomuk Schelble, composer (b. 1789)
- October 6 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
- October 11 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley
- October 17 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer (b. 1778)
- October 28 – Jean-Blaise Martin, opera singer (b. 1768)
- date unknown
- Franz Joseph Antony, organist and choral composer (b. 1790)
- Jean Théodore Latour, composer for piano (b. 1766)
- Christina Rahm, opera singer (b. c. 1760)
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