1840 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris
• Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe. He also marries Clara Wieck.

• "La Favourite" by Gaetano Donizetti
• "La Fille du Régiment" by Gaetano Donizetti

• May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

• May 27 - Niccolo Paganini, violinist and composer