1833 in music

An 8-bar sample of the right hand from Frédéric Chopin's Etude Op. 10, No. 5

This article is about music-related events in 1833.

Events

• February 24 – The Grand Theatre, Warsaw, Poland, is inaugurated with a production of Rossini's The Barber of Seville.
• May 13 – Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony in A major, Op. 90, is premièred under the composer's baton in London; although very successful there he withdraws it for revision.
• July 8 – Lyrics by Francisco Acuña de Figueroa are selected as the National Anthem of Uruguay.
• October 3 – French composer Hector Berlioz marries Anglo-Irish actress Harriet Smithson in a civil ceremony at the British Embassy in Paris with Liszt as one of the witnesses.
• December 1 – Launch of Le Ménestrel, a French weekly music journal; it survives until 1940.
• Late – First publication of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 for organ attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as part of a collection of Bach's organ works produced by Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig and partly prepared by Mendelssohn.
• Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen, director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion after the composer's death in 1750.

Popular music

• "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen"
• "Još Hrvatska ni propala" m. Ferdo Livadić w. Ljudevit Gaj (written in 1832)

Classical music

• Charles Valentin Alkan – Rondo Brilliant for String Quartet
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor
• Hector Berlioz – Overture 'King Lear', H 53, premiered December 22 in Paris
• Frédéric Chopin
  • Grande valse brillante in E-flat major, Op. 18
  • Boléro, Op. 19
• Carl Czerny
  • Divertissement de concert, Op.204
  • Introduction, variations et presto finale sur 'Norma', Op.281
  • Piano Trio No.4, Op.289
  • The Art of Preluding, Op.300
• Anton Diabelli – Grande Sonate brillante pour le Pianoforte et Guitare, Op.102
• Fanny Hensel
  • Gegenwart. Allegro Moderato H-U 270
  • In Die Ferne. Allegretto Affettuoso H-U 271
• Ferdinand Hiller – Neuer Frühling, Op.16
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fantasy for piano
• Georg Kopprasch – 60 Etudes for High-Horn, Op.5
• Franz Liszt – Malédiction, S.121
• Joseph Mayseder – String Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op.51
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 4 "Italian"
• Joseph Merk – 20 Exercises for Cello, Op.11
• Sigismond Neukomm – "Fantaisie dramatique on some pages of Milton’s Paradise lost"
• Józef Nowakowski – Piano Quintet, Op. 17
• George Onslow
  • String Quartet No.22, Op.47
  • Symphony No. 3 in F minor
• Carl Gottlieb Reissiger – Piano Trio No.7, Op.85
• Clara Schumann – Romance variée, Op.3
• Robert Schumann – 6 Concert Etudes after Paganini Caprices, Op.10
• Louis Spohr – String Quintet No.4, Op.91
• Johann Strauss Sr
  • Fra Diavolo, Op.41
  • Die vier Temperamente, Op.59
  • Carnevals-Spende, Op.60
  • Tausendsapperment Walzer, Op.61
• Sigismond Thalberg – Fantaisie sur des motifs de l'opéra 'La straniera', Op.9

Opera

• Daniel François Esprit Auber – Gustave III, premiered February 27 in Paris
• Vincenzo Bellini – Beatrice di Tenda, premiered March 16 in Venice
• Hector Berlioz – Les francs-juges, H 23, last revision
• Gaetano Donizetti – Lucrezia Borgia, premiered December 26 in Milan
• Heinrich Marschner – Hans Heiling

Births

• January 17 – Theodor Bradsky, composer (died 1881)
• January 26 – Grenville Dean Wilson, composer (died 1897)
• February 12 – Charles-Wilfrid Bériot, pianist (died 1914)
• February 13 – James William Elliott, nursery rhyme composer (died 1915)
• March 7 – Franz Wohlfahrt, violin teacher and composer (d. 1884)
• March 13 – Nikolay Zverev, pianist (died 1893)
• March 17 – Giuseppe Gariboldi, flautist and composer (d. 1905)
• March 23 – Franz Bendel, pianist (died 1874)
• April 30 – Hortense Schneider, operatic soprano (d. 1920)
• May 1 – Theodor Krause, composer (died 1910)
• May 5 – Jean Becker, violinist (d. 1884)
• May 7 – Johannes Brahms, composer (d. 1897)
• May 9
  • Beniamino Carelli, singing teacher (d. 1921)
  • Bolesław Dembiński, organist and composer (d. 1914)
• May 11 – Jean Becker, violinist (died 1884)
• May 26 – Merian Genast, vocalist (died 1905)
• June 7 – Alexander Ritter, composer and violinist (d. 1896)
• June 8 – Alexander Julius Paul Dorn, composer (died 1901)
• June 20 – Anton Door, pianist (died 1919)
• June 27 – Vladyslav Zaremba, composer and pianist (d. 1902)
• July 26 – Otto Singer, composer (d. 1894)
• September 14 – Francis Edward Bache, organist (died 1858)
• September 19 – Ludwig von Brenner, conductor (died 1902)
• September 26 – Gustav Stolpe, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
• October 14 – William George Cusins, composer (died 1893)
• October 26 – Adelaide Phillips, operatic contralto (d. 1882)
• November 6 – Wilhelm Ganz, composer (died 1914)
• November 12 – Alexander Borodin, composer (d. 1887)
• date unknown
  • Luigi Bassi, clarinet player and composer (d. 1871)
  • Mathilda Enequist, opera singer (d. 1898)

Deaths

• January 16 - Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (b 1769)
• January 19 – Ferdinand Hérold, composer (b. 1791)
• January 20 – Gertrud Elisabeth Mara, operatic soprano (b. 1749)
• March 3 – Heinrich Werner, composer (b. 1800)
• April 7 – Antoni Radziwiłł, Polish aristocrat and musician (b. 1775)
• April 13 – Elisa von der Recke, lyricist (born 1754)
• May 25 – Johann Andreas Streicher, pianist, composer and piano maker (b. 1761)
• May 28 – Johann Christian Friedrich Hæffner, composer (b. 1759)
• May 29 – William Marshall, fiddler and composer (b. 1748)
• July 24 – Hedda Wrangel, Swedish aristocrat and musician (b. 1792)
• September 14 – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (b. c.1761)
• October 1 – Luísa Todi, operatic soprano (b. 1753)
• October 15 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, composer and Polish diplomat (born 1765)
• November 8 – Maximilian Stadler, pianist and composer (b. 1748)