See also: 1836 in music, other events of 1837, 1838 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Contents

1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Classical music 4 Opera 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

Published popular music

• "Hark, Brothers, Hark", words and music by John Hill Hewitt
• "Woodman, Spare That Tree! ", words by George Pope Morris , music by Henry Russell

Classical music

• String Quartet #4 in E minor by Felix Mendelssohn

Opera

• Roberto Devereux by Gaetano Donizetti

Births

• January 12 - Adolf Jensen
• January 2 - Mily Balakirev
• August 24 - Theodore Dubois

Deaths

• January 23 - John Field
• October 17 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel
• October - Samuel Wesley , organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley