1843 in music
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2 Popular music 3 Opera and Musical theater 4 Births 5 Deaths |
Events
- February 6 - The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens at the Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City.
Popular music
- "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" by Thomas Becket
- "I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
- "Then You'll Remember Me" w. Alfred Bunn m. Michael William Balfe from the light opera The Bohemian Girl
Opera and Musical theater
- February 11 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan
- 25 November - Michael William Balfe's The Bohemian Girl debuts in London
- Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale debuts in Paris
Births
- June 15 - Edvard Grieg
- August 5 - James Scott Skinner
- - Asger Hamerik