1827 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1827.

Events

 * March 29 – The funeral of Ludwig van Beethoven is attended by huge crowds.
 * April 5 – Pope Leo XII honours Nicolo Paganini with the Order of the Golden Spur.
 * April 13 – 18-year-old soprano Eugenia Savorani marries Giovanni Tadolini, her 42-year-old singing teacher.
 * date unknown
 * Franz Liszt moves to Paris after the death of his father. He will live there for the next five years. He plays a concert in London that was attended by Ignaz Moscheles.
 * François Dauverné becomes one of the first musicians to use the new F three-valved trumpet in public performance.
 * Rossini's mother dies, prompting his return home to Bologna.
 * The term "Gesamtkunstwerk" is first used in print, in an essay by Eusebius Trahndorff; it is later adopted by Richard Wagner.
 * Soprano Laure-Cinthie Montalant marries the tenor Vincent-Charles Damoreau.
 * The Zagreb Music Association is founded; one of its earliest members is Ivan Padovec.

Popular music

 * "I'd Be a Butterfly" w.m. Thomas Haynes Bayly

Classical music

 * Dionisio Aguado – 4 Rondos brillants, Op. 2
 * Hector Berlioz – La mort d’Orphée (cantata)
 * Frederic Chopin – Variations on "Là ci darem la mano" Op. 2
 * Carl Czerny
 * 3 Sonatines faciles et brillantes, Op. 104
 * Piano Sonata Nos.6–9, Opp. 124, 143–145
 * Grande Serenade concertante, Op.126
 * 100 Progressive Studies, Op. 139
 * Concerto for Piano Four-Hands and Orchestra, Op. 153
 * Mauro Giuliani – 6 Airs Irlandois nationales variées (for guitar), Op. 125
 * Fanny Hensel – 6 Lieder, Op.9, Nos. 1, "Die Ersehnte" and 5 "Der Maiabend"
 * Ferdinand Hiller
 * "Le sénateur" (dated June 22)
 * "Wandrers Nachtlied"
 * Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Symphony No.1, Op. 7
 * Friedrich Kuhlau
 * Flute Sonata, Op. 85
 * 4 Sonatinas, Op. 88
 * Kaspar Kummer – Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32
 * Franz Liszt – Scherzo in G minor, S.153
 * Felix Mendelssohn
 * 7 Charakterstücke, Op.7
 * String Quartet No.2, Op.13
 * The Last Rose of Summer, Op.15
 * Piano Sonata No.3, Op.106 (dated May 31)
 * Tu es Petrus, Op.111
 * Christe, du Lamm Gottes, MWV 5
 * Ferdinand Ries
 * Polonaise No.4, Op.140
 * 3 Flute Quartets, WoO 35, No. 2 in G major
 * Pierre Rode – Violin Concerto No.11 in D major, Op. 23
 * Franz Schubert
 * Winterreise (song cycle)
 * Piano Trio No. 1
 * Piano Trio No. 2
 * Im Abendrot, D.799
 * Impromptus, D.899 and D.935
 * 3 Gesänge, D.902
 * Zur guten Nacht, D.903
 * Alinde, D.904
 * An die Laute, D.905
 * Variations on a Theme from Herold's 'Marie', D. 908
 * Phantasie for violin and piano in C major, D.934
 * 12 Valses nobles, D. 969
 * Ignaz Seyfried – Libera me Domine, continuation of Mozart's Requiem
 * Louis Spohr
 * Violin Concerto No.11, Op. 70
 * Double String Quartet No.2, Op.77
 * Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse – Et Eventyr i Rosenborg Have (Singspiel)

Opera

 * Vincenzo Bellini – Il Pirata
 * Louise Bertin – Le loup-garou
 * Michele Carafa – Les Deux Figaro
 * Felix Mendelssohn – Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Op.10 (premiered April 29 in Berlin)
 * Giovanni Pacini – Margherita regina d'Inghilterra
 * Louis Spohr – Pietro von Abano, premiered Oct. 13 in Kassel.

Births

 * January 14 – Enderby Jackson, pioneer of the British brass band (d. 1903)
 * January 16 (or 17) – Antonio Giuglini, operatic tenor (d. 1865)
 * February 2 – Ludwig Eichrodt, lyricist (died 1892)
 * February 9 – Auguste Dupont, composer (died 1890)
 * February 12 – Alexander Wilhelm Gottschalg, composer (died 1908)
 * February 14 – José Costa, composer (died 1881)
 * February 18 – Marc Burty, music teacher and composer (died 1903)
 * March 5
 * Hans Balatka, composer (d. 1899)
 * Emile Jonas, composer (died 1905)
 * March 26 – Emanuel Kania, composer (died 1887)
 * April 15 – Julius Tausch, composer (died 1895)
 * April 25 – Jean Antoine Zinnen, composer (d. 1898)
 * May 11 – Septimus Winner, composer (died 1902)
 * August 20 (or 22) – Josef Strauss, waltz composer (d. 1870)
 * August 22 – Edouard Silas, composer (died 1909)
 * August 23 – Simon Waley, composer (died 1875)
 * September 5 – Goffredo Mameli, lyricist of the Italian national anthem (d. 1849)
 * September 13 – Catherine Winkworth, hymnist (died 1878)
 * October 6 – Karl Riedel, conductor (died 1888)
 * November 7 – Theodor Bernhard Sick, composer (died 1893)
 * November 12 – Gustav Merkel, organist and composer (d. 1885)
 * November 20 – Edmond Dédé, composer (died 1903)
 * November 26 – Hugo Ulrich, composer, teacher and arranger (d. 1872)
 * December 24 – Lisa Cristiani, cellist (died 1853)
 * December 31 – Marie Caroline Miolan-Carvalho, French operatic soprano (d. 1895)
 * date unknown
 * Martino Frontini, composer (d. 1909)
 * George Lichtenstein, Hungarian-born pianist and music teacher (d. 1893)

Deaths

 * January 18 – John Hoyland, organist and composer (b. 1783)
 * January 30 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (b. 1773)
 * February 2 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, opera composer (b. 1764)
 * February 11 – José Lidon, composer and musician (born 1748)
 * February 26 – David Moritz Michael, composer (b. 1751)
 * March 9 – Franz Xaver Gerl, operatic bass and composer (b. 1764)
 * March 26 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (b. 1770)
 * April 3 – Ernst Chladni, physicist and musician, "Father of acoustics" (b. 1756)
 * May 9 – Friedrich Wilhelm Berner, composer (born 1780)
 * June 4 – Stephan von Breuning, librettist (born 1774)
 * July 17 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (b. 1769)
 * July 25 – Gottfried Christoph Härtel, music publisher (born 1763)
 * August 2 – James Hewitt, composer, conductor and music publisher (b. 1770)
 * August 3 – Lorenz Leopold Haschka, lyricist of the Austrian national anthem (b. 1749)
 * August 9 – Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers, composer, dramatist and songwriter (b. 1772)
 * August 28 – Adam Liszt, Hungarian musician, father of Franz Liszt (b. 1776)
 * September 8 – Reginald Spofforth, composer (b. 1769)
 * September 30 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (born 1794)
 * November 6 – Bartolomeo Campagnoli, violinist (b. 1751)
 * November 11 – Franz von Walsegg, count who commissioned Mozart's Requiem (b. 1763)
 * November 20 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (b. 1769)
 * date unknown
 * James Hook, composer (b. 1746)
 * Syama Sastri, oldest of the Trinity of Carnatic music (b. 1762)