1829 in music

Events

• March 11 – German composer Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion since the latter's death in 1750, at the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin; the success of this performance sparks a revival of interest in Bach.
• April-September – Mendelssohn pays his first visit to Britain. This includes the first London performance of his concert overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream and his trip to Fingal's Cave.
• July – George Washington Dixon popularizes "Coal Black Rose" singing in blackface in New York City.
• December 29 – Soprano Eugenia Tadolini makes a house debut at the Teatro Regio di Parma.
• Frédéric Chopin concludes his studies at the music academy in Warsaw which will later be named after him. He also hears Paganini perform and begins writing his Etudes.

  Popular music

• "There's Nothing True but Heaven" words by Thomas Moore, music by Oliver Shaw

  Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – La Mort de Cleopatre
• Norbert Burgmüller – Piano Concerto in F-sharp minor
• Frederic Chopin
• *Introduction and Polonaise Brillante Op. 3
• *Piano Trio Op. 8
• *Étude Op. 10, No. 8
• *Étude Op. 10, No. 9
• *Étude Op. 10, No. 10
• *Étude Op. 10, No. 11
• Fanny Hensel – Capriccio for Cello and Piano in A-flat major
• Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture

  Opera

• Michael William Balfe – I rivali di se stessi
• Gioacchino Rossini – Guillaume Tell first performed in Paris. Libretto by Étienne de Jouy, Florent Bis and Armand Marrast.

  Births

• January 24 – William Mason, pianist and composer
• March 6 – Heinrich Lichner, composer
• May 8 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, pianist and composer
• May 9 – Ciro Pinsuti, pianist and composer
• June 9 – Gaetano Braga, cellist and composer
• June 11 – Horace Poussard, violinist and composer
• August 7 – Timoteo Pasini, composer, conductor, and pianist
• August 21 – Otto Goldschmidt, pianist, conductor and composer
• August 25 – Carlo Acton, pianist and composer
• August 28 – Albert Dietrich, composer
• November 28 – Anton Rubinstein, pianist, conductor and composer

  Deaths

• January 25 – William Shield, violinist and composer
• February 16 – François Joseph Gossec, composer
• February 18 – Jan Křtitel Kuchař, organist, composer and teacher
• May 8 – Mauro Giuliani, guitarist and composer
• October 29 – Maria Anna Mozart, elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• December 14 – Luigi Marchesi, castrato singer