1837 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1837.

Events

June 11 – Prussian Copyright Act protecting for the first time performances of concert music
Pauline Viardot (as Pauline García) makes her concert debut at the age of sixteen.

Captain E. G. Austin's Quick Step

January 2 – Mily Balakirev, Russian pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
January 12 – Adolf Jensen, German pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1879)
April 13 – Julius Weissenborn, German bassoonist, music teacher and composer (d. 1888)
July 30 – Signe Hebbe, operatic soprano (d. 1925)
August 24 – Théodore Dubois, organist and composer (d. 1924)
December 9 – Emile Waldteufel, composer (d. 1915)
December 24 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (d. 1930)
December 30 – Ida Marie Lipsius, music writer (d. 1927)
date unknown
- Kate Santley, actress and singer (d. 1923)
- La Serneta, flamenco singer (d. 1910)

January 23 – John Field, pianist and composer (b. 1782)
April 9 – Polly Cuninghame, ballet dancer (b. c. 1785)
May 5 – Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli, composer (b. 1752)
June 16 – Valentino Fioravanti, opera buffa composer (b. 1764)
July 28 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (b. 1754)
August 6 – Johann Nepomuk Schelble, composer (b. 1789)
October 6 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (b. 1760/1763)
October 11 – Samuel Wesley, organist and composer, son of hymn-writer Charles Wesley
October 17 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer (b. 1778)
October 28 – Jean-Blaise Martin, opera singer (b. 1768)
date unknown
- Franz Joseph Antony, organist and choral composer (b. 1790)
- Jean Théodore Latour, composer for piano (b. 1766)
- Christina Rahm, opera singer (b. c. 1760)

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