1834 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1834.

Events

 * September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
 * October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
 * Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
 * Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.

Publications

 * Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon
 * J.C. Maugin – Manuel du Luthier

Popular music

 * "Alphabet song" (copyrighted by C. Bradlee)

Classical music

 * Charles-Valentin Alkan – Variations sur un thème de Bellini, Op.16 No.5
 * William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor
 * Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
 * Ole Bull
 * Violin Concerto No.1, Op.4
 * Quartet for Solo Violin
 * Norbert Burgmuller
 * Rhapsodie in B minor for Piano, Op.13
 * Duo for Piano and Clarinet, Op.15
 * Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
 * Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu (published posthumously in 1855)
 * Felicien David
 * Fantasia harabi
 * Égyptienne
 * Vieux Caire
 * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
 * Nocturnes for Violin and Piano, Op.8
 * Thème allemand varié, Op.9
 * Souvenir du 'Pré aux clercs'
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Grand rondeau brillant, Op.126
 * Friedrich Kalkbrenner
 * Les Soupirs, Op.121
 * Thême favori de la 'Norma' de Bellini varié, Op.122
 * Karol Kurpinski – Polonaise in C major
 * Franz Paul Lachner
 * Waldklänge, Op.28
 * Symphony No.3, Op.41
 * Luigi Legnani – Grande Fantasia, Op.61
 * Franz Liszt – Apparations
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer
 * Le moine
 * Rachel à Nephtali
 * James Nares – The souls of the righteous
 * George Onslow
 * 3 String Quartets, Op.46
 * String Quartet No.22, Op.47
 * Ludwig Schunke
 * Caprice No.1, Op.9
 * Rondeau brillant, Op.11
 * František Škroup – Kde domov můj?
 * Louis Spohr – Erinnerung an Marienbad, Op.89
 * Mikhail Vysotsky – Fuga of Bach

Opera

 * Adolphe Adam – Le Chalet, premiered September 25 in Paris
 * Daniel Auber – Lestocq, premiered May 24 in Paris
 * John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
 * Gaetano Donizetti – Gemma di Vergy, premiered December 26 in Milan
 * Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
 * Saverio Mercadante
 * Emma d'Antiochia, premiered March 8 in Venice
 * Uggiero il danese

Births

 * January 1 – Ludovic Halévy, librettist (died 1908)
 * January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator (d. 1897)
 * January 20 – Théodore Salomé, composer (died 1896)
 * January 23 – Josef Löw, composer (died 1886)
 * January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar (d. 1834)
 * February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone (d. 1922)
 * March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor (d. 1911)
 * March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer (d. 1858)
 * March 31 – Amalie Wickenhauser-Neruda, pianist (died 1890)
 * April 1 – Isidore-Edouard Legouix, composer (died 1916)
 * April 6 – Hart Pease Danks, musician (died 1903)
 * May 19 – Carl Müllerhartung, composer (died 1908)
 * June 8 – George Garrett, composer (d. 1897)
 * June 22 – Frédéric Louis Ritter, composer (died 1891)
 * June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer (d. 1928)
 * August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (d. 1901)
 * August 14 – Alexander Winterberger, composer (died 1914)
 * August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer (d. 1901)
 * August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer (d. 1886)
 * October 3 – Vilém Blodek, composer (died 1874)
 * October 4 – Helen Lemmens-Sherrington, opera singer (died 1906)
 * October 17 – Josephine Pollard, hymnist (died 1892)
 * October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns (d. 1878)
 * November 2 – Harriet McEwen Kimball, hymnist (died 1917)
 * November 7 – Ernest Gagnon, composer (died 1915)
 * November 29 – Sedley Taylor, music theorist (died 1920)
 * November 30 – Joseph Mosenthal, musician (died 1896)
 * December 12 – Wilhelmine Clauss-Szarvady, pianist (died 1907)
 * December 22 – Herman Amberg, composer (died 1902)
 * date unknown
 * David Braham, composer (died 1905)
 * Harry McCarthy, songwriter (died 1888)

Deaths

 * January 29 – Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis, librettist (born 1762)
 * February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer (b. 1767)
 * April 17 – Catherine Maria Fanshawe, lyricist (born 1765)
 * June 29 – Alexandre-Étienne Choron, musicologist (born 1771)
 * September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
 * August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer (b. 1754)
 * October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer (b. 1775)
 * December 7 – Ludwig Schuncke, composer (b. 1810)
 * date unknown
 * Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer (b. 1742)
 * August Duranowski, violinist and composer (b. c. 1770)
 * Filip Višnjić, gusle player (b. 1767)