1840 in music

Events

• February 11 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Regiment premieres in Paris
• Robert Schumann's "year of song", in which he writes the two Liederkreis, Frauenliebe und -leben and Dichterliebe

Popular music

• "The Old Arm Chair"     w. Eliza Cook m. Henry Russell

Opera

• "La Favourite" by Gaetano Donizetti
• "La Fille du Régiment" by Gaetano Donizetti

Births

• May 7 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Deaths

• May 27 - Niccolo Paganini, violinist and composer

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