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Overview of the events of 1842 in music
Adolphe Adam – La jolie fille de Gand , Ballet premiered June 22 in Paris
Jacob Arcadelt – Ave Maria
Hector Berlioz
Rêverie et Caprice, H 88, premiered February 1 in Paris
La mort d'Ophélie, H 92, composition begun
Franz Berwald
Symphony No. 1 in G minor "Sinfonie sérieuse"
Symphony No. 2 in D "Sinfonie capricieuse"
Ernste und heitere Grillen , for orchestra
Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen , for orchestra
Festival of the Bayadères
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – Messe du jour de Noel , Op.11
Anton Bruckner – Windhaager Messe, WAB 25
Frédéric Chopin
Carl Czerny – Nocturne, Op.647
Friedrich Dotzauer – 24 Études journalières, Op.155
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
Boléro, Op.16
Polonaise, Op.17
Feuillet d'album
August Freyer – Concert-Fantasie, Op.1
Niels Gade
3 Nordiske Tonebilleder, Op.4
Violin Sonata No. 1, Op. 6
Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op.34
Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems, Op.24
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda – Overture No.10, Op.142
Joseph Lanner – Die Schönbrunner Waltzer
Franz Liszt – Ave Maria I, S.20
Felix Mendelssohn
Gioachino Rossini – Stabat Mater
Robert Schumann
Louis Spohr – Piano Sonata Op. 125
Vaclav Veit – Concert-Ouverture, Op.17
Henri Vieuxtemps – Le Papillon
Daniel François Esprit Auber – Le duc d'Olonne , premiered February 4 in Paris
Gaetano Donizetti – Linda di Chamounix , May 19 at Theater am Kärntnertor , Vienna
Mikhail Glinka – Ruslan and Lyudmila , November 27(Old Style ) at Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg
Franz Paul Lachner – Catharina Cornaro , Op.71
Albert Lortzing – Der Wildschütz , December 31 at Stadttheater, Leipzig
Giuseppe Verdi – Nabucco , March 9 at La Scala , Milan
Richard Wagner – Rienzi , October 20 at Hofoper , Dresden
February 24 – Arrigo Boito , Italian poet and composer (died 1918)
February 25 – Karl May , lyricist (died 1912)
March 10 – Mykola Lysenko , Ukrainian composer (died 1912)
March 18 – Stéphane Mallarmé , lyricist (died 1898)
March 22 – Carl Rosa , musical impresario (died 1889)
April 14 – Sven August Körling , composer of art songs (died 1919)
April 29 – Carl Millöcker , composer (died 1899)
May 3 – Sophus Hagen , composer (died 1929)
May 12 – Jules Massenet , opera composer (died 1912)
May 13 – Arthur Sullivan , composer (died 1900)
May 14 – Alphons Czibulka , pianist, conductor and composer (died 1894)
May 17 – Henry Cotter Nixon , pianist (died 1907)
May 23 – Maria Konopnicka , lyricist (died 1910)
June 4 – Samuel Brenton Whitney , organist (died 1914)
June 7 – Henri Gobbi , composer (died 1920)
June 12 – Rikard Nordraak , Norwegian composer (died 1866)
June 19 – Carl Zeller , Austrian composer (died 1898)
June 29 – Josef Labor , composer (died 1924)
July 4 – Gyula Erkel [hu ] , Hungarian composer (died 1909), son of Ferenc Erkel
July 16 – Eugen Maria Albrecht , composer (died 1894)
July 29 – Charles Collette , actor and composer (died 1924)
September 12 – Marianne Brandt , operatic contralto (died 1921)
September 13 – Ödön Mihalovich , composer (died 1929)
September 24 – Emma Livry , ballerina (died 1863)
October 13 – Antonio Pasculli , oboist and composer (died 1924)
October 26 – Hugo Alpen , composer (died 1917)
November 8 – Eugen Gura , operatic baritone (died 1906)
November 24
December 6 – Pavel Viskovatov , librettist (died 1905)
date unknown – Pallavi Seshayyar , composer of Carnatic music (died 1909)
January 7 – Joseph Czerny , composer (born 1785)
January 9 – Alexandre Duval , librettist and actor (born 1767)
January 19 – Heinrich Anton Hoffmann , violinist (born 1770)
March 6 – Constanze Mozart , widow of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born 1762)[ 4]
March 7 – Christian Theodor Weinlig , composer and conductor (born 1780)
March 15 – Luigi Cherubini , composer (born 1760)[ 5]
April 6 – Johann Anton André , composer and music publisher (born 1775)
April 14 – Jean-Nicolas Bouilly , librettist (born 1763)
April 26 – Louis Bocquillon , composer (born 1781)
May 5 – Jean Elleviou , operatic tenor (born 1769)
June 4 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke , librettist (born 1776)
June 18 – Tobias Haslinger , composer (born 1787)
June 20 – Michael Umlauf , violinist and composer (born 1781)
July 23 – Timothy Swan , hat-maker and composer (born 1758)
August 21 – Johann Friedrich Leopold Duncker , lyricist (born 1768)
August 25 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny , composer and music theorist (born 1762)
September 15 – Pierre Baillot , violinist and composer (born 1771)[ 6]
October 8 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , composer (born 1774)
November 3 – Franz Clement , violinist, pianist, composer, conductor and friend of Beethoven (born 1780)
November 17 – Luigi Capotorti , Italian composer (born 1767)[ 7]
December 16 – Friedrich Rochlitz , musicologist (born 1769)
December 18 – Giuseppe Nicolini , composer (born 1762)
December 25 – Bedřich Diviš Weber , composer and founding principal of the Prague Conservatory (born 1766)