1847 in music

• February 28 – Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Most of the audience perishes because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside. • March 3 – I Lombardi alla prima crociata is performed at Palmo's Opera House in New York City, the first presentation of a Verdi opera in the United States. • March 14 – Verdi's Macbeth is premiėred at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, Italy. • September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public. ==Publications==

• Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music. ==Popular music==

• "Cantique de Noël" ("O Holy Night") w. (Fr) Placide Cappeau (Eng) John Sullivan Dwight m. Adolphe Adam • "Dinah Dear" by Philip Klitz • "Miss Ginger" by Philip Klitz • "Roll On Silver Moon" by Joseph W. Turner ==Classical music==

• Franz Berwald – A Rustic Wedding • Frederic Chopin • Waltz Opus 64 No.1 (Minute) • Waltz Op. 64. No. 2 • Cello Sonata • August Freyer – Concert Variations, Op.2 • Franz Liszt • Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 • Glanes de Woronince • Most of the Harmonies poétiques et religieuses • Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 6 • Jacques Offenbach – Concerto Militaire for cello and orchestra • Robert Schumann • Symphony No. 2 • Piano Trio No. 1 • Henryk Wieniawski – Grand Caprice Fantastique Op. 1 ==Opera==

• Francisco Asenjo Barbieri – Il Buontempone • Giovanni Bottesini – Cristoforo Colombo • Friedrich von Flotow – Martha • Ivar Hallstrom – Hvita frun på Drottningholm (libretto by Frans Hedberg) • Karel Miry – Brigitta (opera in 3 acts, libretto by Hippoliet van Peene, premiered on June 27 in Ghent) • Jacques Offenbach - L'alcôve • Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth • William Vincent Wallace – Matilda of Hungary ==Births==

• January 1 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, music teacher and composer (d. 1915) • February 15 – Robert Fuchs, composer and music teacher (d. 1927) • March 2 – Richard Temple, singer, actor and theatre director (d. 1912) • March 9 – Axel Grandjean, conductor and composer (d. 1932) • June 28 – Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson, composer (d. 1927) • July 12 – Karl Heinrich Barth, pianist and music teacher (d. 1922) • July 21 – Víctor Mirecki Larramat, cellist and music teacher (d. 1921) • October 21 – Giuseppe Giacosa, librettist for some of Puccini's operas (d. 1906) • November 1 – Emma Albani, soprano (d. 1930) • November 30 – August Klughardt, conductor and composer (d. 1902) • December 1 – Agathe Backer Grøndahl, pianist and composer (d. 1907) • December 9 – George Grossmith, comic writer and performer (d. 1912) • December 18 – Augusta Holmès, composer (d. 1903) • December 28 – James Frederick Swift, organist and composer (d. 1931) • date unknown – Emma Fursch-Madi, operatic soprano (d. 1894) ==Deaths==

• January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767) • April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783) • May 14 – Fanny Hensel, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke) • June 11 – Heinrich Bärmann, clarinet virtuoso (born 1784) • June 18 – Lisette Stenberg, actress and musician (born 1770) • July 19 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (born 1772) • September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769) • September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814) • November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809) • November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793) • date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775) ==References==