1843 in music

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera and Musical theater 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.

• "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
• "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
• "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl

• February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan
• 25 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London
• Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale debuts in Paris

• June 15 - Edvard Grieg
• August 5 - James Scott Skinner
• - Asger Hamerik