1815 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • March 24 - The Handel and Haydn Society is founded as an oratorio society in Boston by a group of Boston merchants and musicians
  • Spanish classical guitarist Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.
  • Summer – Gioachino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo. His first opera for this theatre, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, premieres here on October 4.
  • December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston.[1]

Classical music

  • William Beale – "Come let us join the Roundelay"
  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Cello Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Op. 102. Published in 1817.
    • 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
    • Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112, for chorus and orchestra
    • Zur Namensfeier overture, Op. 115
    • Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96
    • Es ist vollbracht, WoO 97
    • Die laute Klage, WoO 135
    • Des Krieger's Abschied, WoO 143
    • Das Geheimnis, WoO 145
    • 12 Songs of Various Nationalities, WoO 157
    • Glück zum neuen Jahr, WoO 165
    • Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude, WoO 166
  • Leonhard von Call – 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op. 22
  • Matthew Camidge – 6 Concertos for Organ, Op. 13
  • Bartolommeo Campagnoli – Capricci, Op. 22
  • Luigi Cherubini – Symphony in D major
  • Carl Czerny – Variations brillantes, Op. 14
  • Friedrich Ernst Fesca – Psalm 103, Op. 26
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Violin (or Flute) Sonata, Op. 64
  • Franz Krommer – Concerto No.2 for 2 Clarinets, Op. 91
  • Joseph Mayseder – String Quartet No.5, Op. 9
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
  • Federico Moretti – "El amor y la amistad"
  • Anton Reicha
    • Wind Quintet, Op. 91 No.1
    • Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in G minor
  • Ferdinand Ries
    • The Dream, Op. 49
    • Piano Trio, Op. 63
  • Franz Schubert
    • Dozens and Dozens of Lieder, canons, and choruses, most notably:
      • Mailied, D. 129, 199 and D. 202
      • Rastlose Liebe, D.138
      • An den Mond, D.193
      • Adelwold und Emma, D.211
      • Alles um Liebe, D.241
      • Die Bürgschaft, D.246
      • Heidenröslein, D.257
      • Erlkönig, D. 328
      • 6 Lieder, Op. posth. 118 (D. 233, 234, 221, 248, 270, 247)
    • Totus in corde langueo, D.136
    • 20 Waltzes, D.146
    • 10 Variations in F major, D.156
    • Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157 (and excerpt Allegro in E major, D.154)
    • Mass No.2, D.167 and Mass No.3, D.324
    • String Quartet No.9, D.173
    • Stabat Mater, D.175
    • Adagio in G major, D.178
    • Minuet in A minor, D.277a
    • Piano Sonata No. 2, D.279
    • 12 Ecossaises, D.299
    • Minuet in A major, D.334
    • 12 Ländler, D.681
    • Liebe säuseln die Blätter, D.988
  • Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.8, Op. 29 No.2
  • Johann Wilhelm Wilms – Sonata for Piano Four Hands, Op. 41

Opera

  • Gioachino Rossini
    • Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
    • Torvaldo e Dorliska
  • Franz Schubert
    • Fernando, D.220
    • Claudine von Villa Bella, D.239
    • Die Freunde von Salamanka, D.326
    • Der Vierjahrige Posten

Births

  • January 22 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (d. 1891)
  • March 8 – Jean Delphin Alard, composer and musician (died 1888)
  • March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)[2]
  • April 6 – Robert Volkmann, composer (d. 1883)
  • April 12 – Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer (d. 1873)
  • May 10 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (d. 1896)
  • June 6 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator of German literature (d. 1869)[3]
  • June 28 – Robert Franz, composer (d. 1892)
  • July 30 – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (d. 1870)
  • August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer (d. 1882)
  • September 4 – Mihály Mosonyi, arranger and composer (died 1870)
  • September 17 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (died 1868)
  • October 17 – Emanuel Geibel, lyricist and playwright (died 1884)
  • November – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer (d. 1879)
  • December 25 – Temistocle Solera, opera composer and librettist (d. 1878)

Deaths

  • February 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (born 1767)
  • March 4 – Frances Abington, singer and actress (born 1737)
  • April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (born 1765) (suicide)
  • May 21 – Roman Hofstetter, composer (born 1742)
  • May 25 – Domenico Puccini, composer (born 1772)
  • June 22 – William Reeve, theatre composer (born 1757)
  • September 29 – Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (born 1737)
  • October 3 – Daniel Belknap, farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher, one of the first American composers.[4] (born 1771)
  • November 15 – Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1774)
  • November 28 – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (born 1745)
  • December 14 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (born 1800) (murder)
  • date unknown – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (born 1735)

References

  1. ↑ Johnson, H. Earle (1986). "Handel and Haydn Society". In Hitchcock, H. Wiley; Sadie, Stanley (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of American Music. Vol. II. London: Macmillan Press. p. 318. ISBN 0-943818-36-2.
  2. ↑ Wier, Albert E. (1938). The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians. New York: Macmillan. p. 197. OCLC 1031758679.
  3. ↑ John Black (2002). "Peruzzini, Giovanni". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O005160.
  4. ↑ Daniel Belknap (1771–1815) David Warren Steel (Editor), Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc. February 28, 1999 ISBN 978-0-8153-2410-2
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