1806 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1806.

Events

  • Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition
  • Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
  • The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
  • Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
  • Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
  • The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Symphony No. 4
    • Piano Concerto No. 4
    • Violin Concerto
    • 3 String Quartets, Op. 59
    • 32 Variations in C minor
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    • 7 Hungarian Dances
    • 12 Minuets
  • Carl Maria von Weber – Concertino for Horn and Orchestra
  • Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 5 "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43

Opera

  • Étienne Méhul – Uthal

Births

  • January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854)[1]
  • January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)[2]
  • March 3 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist (d. 1885)[3]
  • August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
  • September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837)
  • November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
  • December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)

Deaths

  • January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
  • February 18 - Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1755)[4]
  • February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
  • February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738)
  • March 16 – Giuseppe Colla, composer (b. 1731)[5]
  • March 23 – George Pinto, composer (b. 1785)
  • June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731)
  • August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737)
  • date unknown
    • José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728)
    • Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)[6]

References

  1. ↑ Warrack, John (20 January 2001). "Sontag [Sonntag], Henriette (Gertrud Walpurgis)". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  2. ↑ de Waal, Willem (20 January 2001). "Arriaga (y Balzola), Juan Crisóstomo (Jacobo Antonio) de". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  3. ↑ William Ashbrook; Andrew Lamb (2001). "Mazza, Giuseppe". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.46392.
  4. ↑ Carr, Bruce (20 January 2001). "Banti, Brigida Giorgi". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
  5. ↑ Sven Hansell; Rebecca Green (2001). "Colla, Giuseppe". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.06099.
  6. ↑ Kuzmick Hansell, Kathleen (20 January 2001). "Le Picq [Le Picque, Lepic, Le Pichi, Picq, Pick, Pich, Pik], Charles [Carlo]". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
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