Overview of the events of 1844 in music
Events
Christy's Minstrels in 1844
Popular music
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 14 – Clara Kathleen Rogers, American singer and composer (d. 1931)
- January 29 – Charles G. Conn, instrument manufacturer (d. 1931)
- February 21 – Charles-Marie Widor, organist and composer
- March 10 – Pablo de Sarasate, violinist and composer (d. 1908)
- March 18 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, composer (died 1908)
- March 19 – Auguste Kolár, pianist (died 1878)
- April 9 – László Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel
- April 30 – Richard Hofmann, composer (died 1918)
- May 8 – Hermann Graedener, conductor and composer (d. 1929)
- May 21 – Amy Fay, pianist (died 1928)
- June 3 – Émile Paladilhe, composer (d. 1926)
- August 24 – Gustav Hinke, oboist (died 1893)
- September 11 - Carl Bohm, pianist and composer (d. 1920)
- September 22 – William Stevenson Hoyte, composer (died 1927)
- December 5 – Sir Frederick Bridge, organist and composer (d. 1924)
- Date unknown – Olga Sandberg, Swedish ballerina
Deaths
- January 15 – Joseph Mazzinghi, composer (b. 1765)
- January 30 – John Addison, double-bass player and composer (b. 1765)
- April 6 – Francis Johnson, black composer and band-leader
- May 21 – Giuseppe Baini, church composer and music critic (b. 1775)
- July 11 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, lyricist (born 1800)
- July 13 – Johann Baptist Gänsbacher, composer (b. 1778)
- July 29 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, pianist and composer, son of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- September 4 – Oliver Holden, composer and hymn-writer (b. 1765)
- November 9 – Uri Keeler Hill, composer (b. 1780)
- December 9 – Franz Seraph von Destouches, composer
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