1805 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1805.

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Events

  • April 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton, marking the beginning of his middle period.
  • November 20 – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore) is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
  • Louis Spohr is appointed musical director to the court of Gotha.
  • Niccolò Paganini begins touring Europe.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Leonora Overture No.2, Op. 72a
    • Erlkönig, WoO 131
  • ETA Hoffmann – Piano Sonatas
  • Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major, Op. 52
  • Louis Spohr
    • 2 String Quartets, Op. 4[1]
    • Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 7[2]
  • Joseph Wölfl
    • Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 25
    • Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 33

Opera

  • Michele Carafa – Il Fantasma[3]
  • Luigi Cherubini – Faniska
  • James Hook – The Soldier's Return
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio

Births

  • January 7 – Philip Klitz, composer (d. 1854)[4]
  • February 22 – Robert Reinick, lyricist and artist (died 1852)
  • March 5 – Théodore Labarre, harpist and composer (d. 1870)
  • March 17 – Manuel García, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
  • May 14 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer (d. 1900)
  • July 8 – Luigi Ricci, opera composer (d. 1859)
  • July 27 – Luigi Felice Rossi, composer and musicologist (d. 1863)
  • October 28 – John Thomson, composer (d. 1841)
  • November 1 – Alessandro Nini, composer (d. 1880)
  • November 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (d. 1847)[5]

Deaths

  • January 23 – Wenzel Pichl, composer (b. 1741)
  • February 4 – Johann George Tromlitz, flautist (b. 1725)
  • April – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, organist, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1746)
  • April 28 – Peter Pelham, harpsichordist, organist and composer (b. 1721)
  • May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (born 1759)
  • May 10 – Johann Evangelist Haydn, tenor, brother of Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn (b. 1743)
  • May 28 – Luigi Boccherini, composer (b. 1743)
  • August – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (b. 1776)
  • November – Hamoir, dancer and theatre director
  • December 18 – Gennaro Astarita, opera composer (b. c.1745)

References

  1. ↑ "2 String Quartets, Op.4 (Spohr, Louis) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  2. ↑ "Violin Concerto No.3, Op.7 (Spohr, Louis) - IMSLP: Free Sheet Music PDF Download". imslp.org. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
  3. ↑ Ambìveri, Corrado (1998). Operisti minori: dell'ottocento Italiano (in Italian). Gremese Editore. p. 36. ISBN 9788877422637.
  4. ↑ "Klitz, Philip". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15695. Retrieved 4 June 2018. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. ↑ Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-67400-084-1.
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