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Overview of the events of 1844 in music
Events
Christy's Minstrels in 1844
Popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
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January 14 –
Clara Kathleen Rogers, American singer and composer (d. 1931)
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January 29 –
Charles G. Conn, instrument manufacturer (d. 1931)
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February 21 –
Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
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March 10 –
Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer (d. 1908)
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March 18 –
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer
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March 19 –
Auguste Kolár, pianist (died 1878)
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April 9 – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of
Ferenc Erkel
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April 30 –
Richard Hofmann, composer (died 1918)
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May 8 –
Hermann Graedener, conductor and composer (d. 1929)
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May 21 –
Amy Fay, pianist (died 1928)
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June 3 –
Émile Paladilhe, composer (d. 1926)
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August 24 –
Gustav Hinke, oboist (died 1893)
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September 11 -
Carl Bohm, pianist and composer (d. 1920)
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September 22 –
William Stevenson Hoyte, composer (died 1927)
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December 5 – Sir
Frederick Bridge, organist and composer (d. 1924)
- Date unknown –
Olga Sandberg, Swedish ballerina
Deaths
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January 15 –
Joseph Mazzinghi, composer (b. 1765)
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January 30 –
John Addison, double-bass player and composer (b. 1765)
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April 6 –
Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader
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May 21 –
Giuseppe Baini, church composer and music critic (b. 1775)
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July 11 –
Yevgeny Baratynsky, lyricist (born 1800)
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July 13 –
Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, composer (b. 1778)
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July 29 –
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, pianist and composer, son of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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September 4 –
Oliver Holden, composer and hymn-writer (b. 1765)
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November 9 –
Uri Keeler Hill, composer (b. 1780)
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December 9 –
Franz Seraph von Destouches, composer
References