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Overview of the events of 1839 in music
Overview of the events of 1839 in music
This article is about music-related events in 1839 .
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January 1 – James Ryder Randall , popular songwriter
January 9 – John Knowles Paine , composer and musicologist
February 7 – Elie Miriam Delaborde , editor and pianist (died 1913)
April 18 – Lotten Edholm , composer
March 2 – Victoria Bundsen , alto
March 10 – Dudley Buck , American composer and organist
March 17 – Josef Rheinberger , composer (d. 1901)
March 19 – Gustav Roguski, composer and teacher of Mieczysław Karłowicz
March 21 – Modest Mussorgsky , composer (d. 1881)
April 12 – Victorin de Joncières , composer and music critic (d. 1903)
May 19 – Alice Mary Smith , composer (d. 1884)
July 14 – Sydney Smith , English composer and pianist
August 24 – Eduard Nápravník , composer (d. 1916)
November 24 – James Warren York , businessman, musical instrument maker
February 16 – Ludwig Berger , pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1777)
March 8 – Adolphe Nourrit , operatic tenor (b. 1802) (suicide)
April 20 – Giuseppe Rossini, father of the composer Gioacchino Rossini
May 3 – Ferdinando Paer , composer (b. 1771)
June 8 – Aloysia Weber , operatic soprano (b. c. 1760)
June 11 – Regina Strinasacchi , violinist (b. c. 1761)
June 14 – Nicolas Mori , violinist, conductor and music publisher (b. 1796)
June 15 – Hans Skramstad , pianist and composer (b. 1797)
July 10 – Fernando Sor , guitarist and composer (b. 1778)
September 21 – Gottfried Weber , music theorist (b. 1779)
December 7 – Jan August Vitásek , composer (b. 1770)