1804 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1804.

Events

  • January 1 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.[1]
  • January 23 – François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.[1]
  • February 20 – Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.[1]
  • April 22 – Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.[1]
  • May 8 – Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.[1]
  • May 14 – Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.[2]
  • September 18 – Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin.[1] There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
  • Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.[1]

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major
    • Piano Sonata No. 23, Op.57
    • Symphony No. 2 (published; composed 1801–02)
    • Triple Concerto, Op.56
    • Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
  • Isabella Colbran – Cavatina di partenza
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek – Fantasia and Fugue for piano[1]
  • Anton Eberl – Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    • Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
    • Variations for piano Op. 15[1]
    • Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
    • Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
  • Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas
  • Niccolo Paganini – Divertimenti Carnevaleschi[3]
  • Ferdinand Ries – Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
  • Gioachino Rossini – 6 Sonate a quattro
  • Antonio Salieri – Requiem in C minor
  • Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
  • Carl Maria von Weber
    • 6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
    • 6 Lieder, Op. 30
    • Turandot, Op.37 (incidental music for Schiller's production)
  • Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in C major, Op. 41

Opera

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72 (composed; premiered 1805)
  • François-Adrien Boieldieu – Aline, reine de Golconde[1]
  • Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
  • Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
  • Gaspare Spontini – Milton
  • Georg Joseph Vogler – Samori[1]

Births

  • January 24 – Delphine de Girardin, lyricist and writer (died 1855)
  • January 25 – Antoni Edward Odyniec, librettist and writer (died 1885)
  • February 5 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, lyricist and poet (died 1877)
  • March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)[4]
  • March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
  • April 15 – Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
  • May 13 – Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher (died 1860)
  • May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
  • June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
  • June 13 – Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer (died 1878)
  • June 21 – Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist (died 1875)
  • July 14 – Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)[5]
  • July 17 – Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician (died 1877)
  • August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
  • September 8 – Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet (died 1875)
  • October 1 – Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
  • October 18
    • Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician (died 1856)
    • Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright (died 1880)
  • November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
  • date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

Deaths

  • March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
  • June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
  • July 17 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister (born 1723)
  • August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
  • November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
  • November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
  • date unknown
    • Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
    • Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
    • Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
    • Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
    • Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer (born 1726)
    • Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 MusicAndHistory.com – 1804 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 1 March 2014
  2. ↑ George, Christopher T. (December 1998). The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?". "Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations". Napoleonic Scholarship: The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society 1 (2). ISBN 0-8371-9899-2
  3. ↑ "List of works by Niccolò Paganini - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music". imslp.org. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  4. ↑ Randel, Don Michael (30 October 2002). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 866. ISBN 978-0-674-25572-2.
  5. ↑ "Schuberth, Julius Ferdinand Georg" (in German). University of Magdeburg. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  6. ↑ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Wood%252C%2BAbraham/all/1 Harmonia Mundi
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