1829 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1829.

Events

 * March 11 – The German composer Felix Mendelssohn (age 20) conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
 * April–September – Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This visit included the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.
 * July – George Washington Dixon popularizes "Coal Black Rose" singing in blackface in New York City.
 * December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes her house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
 * Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy in Warsaw which will later be named after him. He also hears Paganini perform and begins writing his Etudes.

Popular music

 * "There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw

Classical music

 * Hector Berlioz – La Mort de Cleopatre
 * Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
 * Frederic Chopin
 * Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op. 3
 * Piano Trio Op. 8
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 8
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 9
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 10
 * Étude Op. 10, No. 11
 * Piano Concerto No. 2
 * Carl Czerny
 * Piano Trio No.2, Op.166
 * Sonatina in A major, Op.167
 * Systematische Anleitung zum Fantasieren auf dem Pianoforte, Op.200
 * Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A-flat major
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Gesellschafts Rondo, Op.117
 * Friedrich Kuhlau
 * Fantaisie, Op.93
 * Introduction and Rondo on 'Le Colporteur', Op.98a
 * 3 Brilliant Duos for 2 Flutes, Op.102
 * 7 Variations on an Irish Folksong, Op.105
 * Caspar Kummer
 * Adagio et Variations sur un Thême de l’Opéra : Armida, de Rossini, p. Cor de Bassette avec Orchestre, Op. 45
 * 2 Duos for Flute and Clarinet, Op.46
 * Flute Trio, Op.53
 * Joseph Merk – Valses brillantes, Op.6
 * Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture

Opera

 * Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
 * Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell (William Tell) first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

Births

 * January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer (d. 1908)
 * February 4 – Marquis d'Ivry, composer (died 1903)
 * February 11 – Camillo Walzel, librettist (died 1895)
 * March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer (d. 1898)
 * May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer (d. 1869)
 * May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
 * June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer (d. 1907)
 * June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer (d. 1898)
 * August 7 – Timoteo Pasini, composer, conductor, and pianist (d. 1888)
 * August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1907)
 * August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer (d. 1909)
 * August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer (d. 1908)
 * October 6 – Josef Gänsbacher, music educator (died 1911)
 * November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1894)
 * date unknown
 * Fritz Andersen, composer (died 1910)

Deaths

 * January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer (b. 1748)
 * January 30 – Friedrich Haug, lyricist (born 1761)
 * February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer (b. 1734)
 * February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher (b. 1751)
 * April 28 – Karl Gottlieb Umbreit, composer (born 1763)
 * May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer (b. 1781)
 * August 15 – Christian Gottlieb Scheidler, composer (born 1747)
 * August 16 – Carl Gotthelf Gläser, hymnist (born 1784)
 * October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1751)
 * December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer (b. 1754)