1839 in music
overview of music-related events during the year of 1839
This article is about music-related events in 1839.
Events
March 21 – Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first known public performance of Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 9 in C Major ("The Great"; completed 1826), posthumously, in Leipzig.
November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, opens at La Scala, Milan.
Classical music
Hector Berlioz – Romeo et Juliette
Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 2
Scherzo No. 3
Piano Sonata No. 2
Mikhail Glinka
La séparation
Polonaise
Valse-Fantasie
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 2 Preludes and Fugue for Organ (published posthumously)
Joseph Lanner – Amazonen-Galopp; Malapou Galop
Franz Liszt
Valse mélancolique, S.210
Angiolin dal biondo crin, S.269
Fantaisie sur des motifs favoris de l'opéra 'La sonnambula', S.393
Felix Mendelssohn
6 Gesänge, Op. 47
Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op.
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