1839 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Classical Music 3 Published popular music 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Felix Mendelssohn gives the first performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony

• Robert Schumann:
• Arabesque in C, Op. 18 1839
• Blumenstück (Flower Piece) in Db, Op. 19 1839
• Humoreske in Bb, Op. 20 1839
• 4 Nachtstücke (Night Pieces), Op. 23 1839
• Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26 1839
• 3 Romances, Op. 28 (bb, F#, B)

• January 19 - Bohumil Pazdirek
• March 21 - Modest Mussorgsky

• April 20 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
• July 8 - Fernando Sor
• - Ferdinand Paer
• - Charles Stokes