1847 in music

Events

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September – Franz Liszt gives up performing in public.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Vladimir Stasov publishes a monograph on Mikhail Glinka's use of folk motifs in his music.Template:Cn

"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

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)
Jacque Offenbach - L'alcôve
Giuseppe Verdi – Macbeth
William Vincent Wallace – Matilda of Hungary

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)

January 6 – Tyagaraja, Carnatic music composer (born 1767)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
April 23 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (born 1783)
May 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (born 1805; stroke)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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)<ref>Jan ten Bokum: "Wilms, Johann Wilhelm", in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), Template:ISBN</ref>
September 4 – František Vladislav Hek, writer and composer (born 1769)
September 25 – Emma Albertazzi, English contralto (born 1814)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 4 – Felix Mendelssohn, pianist, conductor and composer (born 1809)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 20 – Henry Francis Lyte, hymnist (born 1793)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
date unknown – Francesco Molino, guitarist and composer (b. 1775)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>