1816 in music

Title page of the first edition (1816), Bonn, Beethoven-Haus
Title page of the first edition (1816), Bonn, Beethoven-Haus
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This is a list of music-related events in 1816.

Events

  • January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.[1]
  • January 12 – The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.[1]
  • February 12 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV.[2]
  • February 20 – Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.[3]
  • March 21 – Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.[1]
  • April 9 – Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.[1]
  • April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.[1]
  • April 29 – Luigi Cherubini's cantata Inno alla primavera, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.[1]
  • June 16 – In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II.[1]
  • July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.[1]
  • October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.[1]
  • October 18 – Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.[1]
  • November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.[1]
  • November 25 – Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.[1]

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
    • Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99
    • Piano Sonata No. 28
    • Sehnsucht, WoO 146
  • Luigi Cherubini – Requiem in C minor
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Septet No.1, Op. 74
  • Conradin Kreutzer – String Quintet, Op. 62
  • Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 92
  • Joseph Mayseder – Polonaise No.3, Op. 12
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)[1]
  • Ignaz Moscheles – Grande sonate, Op. 41
  • George Onslow – 3 String Quartets, Op. 9
  • Franz Schubert
    • Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D. 343
    • Stabat Mater in F minor
    • Overture in B-flat major, D.470
    • String Trio in B-flat major, D 471
    • Lieder: Stimme der Liebe, D.412; 3 Gesänge des Harfners, Op. 12, D.478; Der Wanderer, D.489; Loda's Gespenst, D.150; Die Erwartung, D.159
  • Jan Václav Voříšek – 6 Impromptus, Op. 7
  • Carl Maria von Weber – Divertimento assai facile, Op. 38

Opera

  • François Adrien Boieldieu
    • La fête du village voisin
    • Charles de France (with Ferdinand Hérold)
  • Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
  • Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
  • Étienne Méhul – La journée aux aventures
  • Gioachino Rossini
    • Il Barbiere di Siviglia
    • Otello
  • Franz Schubert – Die Bürgschaft, D.435 (unfinished)
  • Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo
  • Louis Spohr – Faust[1]

Births

  • February 26 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher (d. 1897)
  • March 19 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
  • April 13 – William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
  • April 26 – Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
  • July 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, French pianist (died 1898)
  • August 17 – Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
  • September 4 – François Bazin, opera composer (d. 1878)
  • November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian (d. 1876)
  • November 24 – Matteo Salvi, composer (d. 1887)
  • December 8 – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
  • date unknown – Edward Edwards, musician and composer (d. 1897)

Deaths

  • February 10 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (born 1741)
  • February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (born 1763)
  • March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (born 1740)
  • March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (born 1724)
  • May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
  • May 25 – Samuel Webbe, composer (born 1740)
  • June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (born 1740)
  • July 31 – Josef Fiala, musician and composer (born 1748)
  • December 15 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, patron of Beethoven (born 1772)
  • date unknown – João José Baldi, pianist and composer (born 1770)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 MusicandHistory.com – 1816 Archived 2013-11-24 at archive.today. Accessed 24 November 2013
  2. ↑ Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendome Press, New York, 1995. ISBN 0-86565-978-8
  3. ↑ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."20 February 1816". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
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