1817 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1817.

Events

  • Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.
  • Improved form of ophicleide invented by Jean Hilaire Asté in France.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • String Quintet, Op.104
    • Fugue in D major, Op.137
    • Gesang der Mönche, WoO 104
    • So oder So, WoO 148
    • Resignation, WoO 149
  • Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – 30 Caprices, Op. 2
  • Ferdinando Carulli – 6 Duos for Guitar and Flute, Op. 109
  • Frederic Chopin – Two Polonaises
  • Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
  • Gaetano Donizetti
    • English Horn Concertino, A 459 (premiered June 19 in Bergamo)
    • Sinfonia for Winds in G minor, A 509 (composed April 19)
  • Friedrich Dotzauer – Pot-Pourri for Cello and Guitar, Op. 21
  • John Field
    • Nocturne No.4 in A major, H.36
    • Nocturne No.6 in F major ("Berceuse")
  • Georg Gerson – Symphony in E-flat major
  • Mauro Giuliani
    • Divertimenti, Op. 78
    • Preludes, Op. 83
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel
    • Adagio, Variationen und Rondo über 'Pretty Polly', Op. 75
    • Variations sur un theme original, Op. 76
  • Anselm Hüttenbrenner – 6 Variations, Op. 2
  • Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz – 2 Harp Duos, Op. 5
  • Iwan Müller – Clarinet Quartet No. 2
  • Niccolo Paganini – Violin Concerto No.1, Op.6
  • Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no. 1 in E-flat major
  • Franz Schubert
    • Piano Sonata No.4, D.537
    • Allegro and Scherzo, D.570 (July)
    • String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581 (Autumn)
    • Notable Lieder
      • Trost, D.523
      • Schlaflied, D.527
      • Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531
      • Ganymed, D.544
      • An die Musik, D.547
      • Die Forelle, D.550
  • Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.11, Op. 43
  • Václav Jan Tomášek – 6 Eglogues, Op. 47

Opera

  • Franz Danzi – Die Probe
  • Gioacchino Rossini
    • La Cenerentola
    • La Gazza Ladra
    • Armida
    • Adelaide di Borgogna

Publications

  • Francesco Galeazzi – Elementi di Musica
  • "Oft, in the Stilly Night" – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore
  • "Te souviens-tu?" – Émile Debraux and Joseph-Denis Doche

Births

  • February 3 – Émile Prudent, composer (died 1863)
  • February 22 – Niels Gade, composer (d. 1890)
  • March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer (d. 1878)
  • March 17
  • March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer (d. 1871)
  • March 28 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes, composer (died 1880)
  • May 26 – Emil Erslev, composer (died 1882)
  • May 27 – Giuseppe Bardari, librettist (died 1861)
  • May 31 – Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez, composer (died 1897)
  • June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker (d. 1892)
  • August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1886)
  • September 23 - Léon Charles François Kreutzer, music critic, music historian, and composer (d. 1868)[1]
  • October 5 – Eduard Franck, German composer (died 1893)
  • November 12
    • Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist (d. 1882)
    • Carlo Pedrotti, composer and conductor (died 1893)
  • November 13
    • Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (d. 1869)
    • Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
  • November 24 – Fritz Spindler, pianist (died 1905)
  • December 19 – Charles Dancla, composer (died 1907)

Deaths

  • January 14 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (b. 1729)
  • January 28 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, conductor and composer (b. 1761)
  • March 1 – Luigi Gatti, composer (b. 1740)
  • June 29 – Ernst Schulze, lyricist and poet (born 1789)
  • August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano (b. 1766)
  • October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (b. 1741)
  • October 12 – Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (born 1750)
  • October 18 – Etienne Méhul, composer (b. 1763)
  • November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (b. 1732)
  • December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (b. 1752)
  • December 3 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (born 1767)
  • December 11 – Max von Schenkendorf, poet and songwriter (born 1783)
  • date unknown –
    • John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)
    • Pedro Étienne Solère, composer (born 1753)

References

  1. ↑ David Charlton (2001). "Kreutzer, Léon Charles François". Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380300. ISBN 9781561592630.
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