1834 in music

Events

• September – Viennese ballerina Fanny Elssler makes her debut with the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique at the Paris Opera's Salle Le Peletier.
• October 7 – Birmingham Town Hall in Birmingham, England, designed by Joseph Hansom and Edward Welch, is opened for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival.
• Statue of Jean-Jacques Rousseau is erected in his birthplace of Geneva.
• Mikhail Glinka returns to Russia after several years away with the intention of composing Russian nationalist music.

  Publications

• Pierre Baillot – L'art du violon

  Popular music

• "Alphabet song"

  Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – Harold in Italy
• Luigi Cherubini – String Quartet No. 3 in D minor
• Frederic Chopin – Fantaisie-Impromptu
• William Sterndale Bennett – Piano Concerto in C Minor

  Opera

• John Barnett – The Mountain Sylph
• Konradin Kreutzer – Das Nachtlager in Granada
• Saverio Mercadante – Uggiero il danese

  Births

• January 14 – William C. F. Robinson, colonial administrator
• January 28 – Sabine Baring-Gould, clergyman, hymn-writer, song collector, writer and scholar
• February 28 – Sir Charles Santley, baritone
• March 1 – Hildegard Werner, conductor
• March 23 – Julius Reubke, pianist, organist and composer
• June 8 – George Garrett, composer
• June 24 – George Becker, composer and music writer
• August 9 – Elias Álvares Lobo, composer
• August 17 – Peter Benoit, composer
• August 31 – Amilcare Ponchielli, composer
• October 31 – Knowles Shaw, composer of gospel hymns

  Deaths

• February 4 – Amélie-Julie Candeille, singer, librettist and composer
• September 2 – David Charles, hymn-writer
• August 8 – Silvestro Palma, Italian composer
• October 8 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer
• date unknown
• *Antoine-Laurent Baudron, violinist and composer
• *August Duranowski, violinist and composer
• *Filip Višnjić, gusle player