| Year |
Event |
| 1831 |
Sebastien Erard, French manufacturer of Pianofortes, dies |
| 1831 |
Bellini: "La Sonnambula," Milan, Teatro Carcano, and "Norma," Milan, La Scala |
| 1831 |
Chopin arrives in Paris |
| 1831 |
Herold: "Zampa," Paris, Opera-Comique |
| 1831 |
Joseph Joachim, German violinist, founder of the Joachim Quartet, born |
| 1831 |
Meyerbeer: "Robert le Diable," Paris Opera |
| 1831 |
Ignaz Pleyel, French Austrian composer and pianoforte maker, dies |
| 1832 |
Bonifacio Asioli, Italian music scholar and composer, dies |
| 1832 |
Berlioz: "Symphonie Fantastique," Opus 14, revised version, Paris |
| 1832 |
Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist dies |
| 1832 |
Leopold Damrosch, German- American comductor, born |
| 1832 |
Donizetti: "L'Elisir d'Amore," Milan, Teatro della Canobbiana |
| 1832 |
Manuel Garcia, Spanish tenor ,composer and singing teacher, father of three famous singers: Maria Malibran, Michelle Viardot and Manuel Garcia Jr., dies |
| 1832 |
Ferdinand Herold: Le Pre aux clercs," Paris |
| 1832 |
Karl Friedrich Zelter, German composer and conductor, Goethe's friend and musical advisor, dies |
| 1833 |
Johannes Brahms, German composer, born |
| 1833 |
Chopin: Twleve Etudes, Opus 10 |
| 1833 |
Heinrich Marschner: "Hans Heiling," romantic opera, Berlin |
| 1833 |
Mendelssohn: "Italian Symphony," Opus 90, London |
| 1834 |
Adolphe Adam: "Le Chalet," Paris |
| 1834 |
John Barnett: " The Mountain Sylph," opera, London |
| 1834 |
Berlioz: "Harold en Italie," symphony based on Byron's "Childe Harold," Opus 16, Paris |
| 1834 |
Francois-Adrien Boieldieu, French opera composer, dies |
| 1834 |
Aleksandr Porfyrevich Borodin, Russian composer, born |
| 1834 |
Fanny Elssler, Austrian ballerina, makes her sensational debut at the Paris Opera (La Tempete) |
| 1834 |
Konradin Kreutzer: "Das Nachtlager in Granada" (The Night at Camp Grenada),romantic opera, Vienna |
| 1834 |
Sir Charles Santley, English baritone, born |
| 1834 |
Cesar Cui, Russian composer, on of the great five, born |
| 1835 |
Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer, dies |
| 1835 |
Donizetti: "Lucia di Lammermoor," opera, Naples, Teatro San Carlo |
| 1835 |
Halevy: "La Juive," opera, Paris |
| 1835 |
Camille Saint-Saens, French composer, born |
| 1835 |
Theodore Thomas, German American conductor, born |
| 1835 |
Henri Wieniawski, Polish violinist and conductor, born |
| 1836 |
Johann Schenck, Austrian composer, dies |
| 1836 |
Adolphe Adam: "Le Postillon do long jumeau," Paris, Opera-Comique |
| 1836 |
Leo Delibes, French composer, born |
| 1836 |
Glinka: " A Life for the Tzar," first Russian opera, St Petersburg |
| 1836 |
Maria Malibran, French-Spanish soprano, dies |
| 1836 |
Mendelssohn: "St. Paul," oratorio, Dusseldorf |
| 1836 |
Meyerbeer: "Les Huguenots," Paris Opera |
| 1836 |
Richard Wagner marries Minna Planer in Magdeburg |
| 1837 |
Auber: "Le Domino noir," Paris, Opera-Comique |
| 1837 |
Mily Balakirev, Russian compose, founder of the "Great Five" group, born |
| 1837 |
Berlioz: "Grande Messe des Morts," Opus 5, Paris |
| 1837 |
Theodore Dubois, French composer and organist, born |
| 1837 |
John Field, English pianist and composer, dies |
| 1837 |
Johann Nepomik Hummel, Austro-Hungarian composer and pianist, dies |
| 1837 |
J.F. Lesueur, French composer, dies |
| 1837 |
Lortzing: "Zar und Zimmerman" (Czar and the Carpenter), Leipzig |
| 1837 |
Cosima, daughter of Franz Liszt, second wife of Richard Wagner, born |
| 1837 |
Emile Waldteufel, French waltz and dance composer, born |
| 1837 |
Nicola Zingarelli, Italian composer, choirmaster of St. Peters, Rome dies |
| 1838 |
Thomas Attwood, English composer and organist, dies |
| 1838 |
Beloiz: "Benvenuto Cellini," opera, Paris Opera |
| 1838 |
Georges Bizet, French composer, born |
| 1838 |
Max Bruch, German composer, born |
| 1838 |
Chopin's liason with George Sand begins |
| 1838 |
JennyLind make debut in Stockholm (in Weber's "Der Freischutz") |
| 1839 |
A. Carlos Gomez, Brazilian composer, born |
| 1839 |
Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky, Russian composer, born |
| 1839 |
John K. Paine, American musicologist and music teacher, born |
| 1839 |
James Rider Randall, American song writer ("Maryland, My Maryland") born |
| 1839 |
Mendelssohn conducts the first performances of Franz Schubert's Symphony in C major ("The Great"), composed in1828, Leipzig,Gewandhaus |
| 1840 |
French insturment maker A. F. Debain constructs the first harmonium (orgue expressif), patented in 1842 |
| 1840 |
Donizetti: "La Fille du Regiment," Paris, Opera-Comique |
| 1840 |
Fanny Elssler, the Viennese dancer, tour the USA |
| 1840 |
Franz Xaver Haberl, German musical scholar, born |
| 1840 |
Nicolo Paganini, Italian composer and violinist, dies |
| 1840 |
Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck |
| 1840 |
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, born |
| 1840 |
The Swabian merchant Max Schneckenburger writes at the time of a French invasion threat the poem "Wacht am Rhein" (Watch on the Rhine"); set to music 14 years later by the conductor Carl Wilhelm to become Germany's most popular patriotic song in the days of the Franco- Prussian war |
Music History Timeline - 1831 to 1840
