1804 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1804.
Events
- January 1 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.[1]
- January 23 - François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.[1]
- February 20 - Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.[1]
- April 22 - Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.[1]
- May 8 - Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.[1]
- May 14 - Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently-completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.[2]
- September 18 - Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin.[1] There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
- Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.[1]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written
- Opus 85 Christus am Ölberge (completed)
- Symphony No. 2 (published)
- Jan Ladislav Dussek - Fantasia and Fugue for piano[1]
- Anton Eberl - Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Variations for piano op.15[1]
- Leopold Kozeluch - Three Piano Sonatas
- Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D minor, Op. 2
Opera
- François-Adrien Boieldieu - Aline, reine de Golconde[1]
- Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
- Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
- Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
- Gaspare Spontini – Milton
- Georg Joseph Vogler - Samori[1]
Births
- March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
- May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
- June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- July 14 - Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)[3]
- August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
- October 1 - Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
- November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
- date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
Deaths
- March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
- June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
- August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
- November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
- November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
- date unknown
- Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
- Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
- Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
- Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
- Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)[4]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 MusicAndHistory.com - 1804. Accessed 1 March 2014
- ↑ George, Christopher T. (December 1998). The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?". "Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations". Napoleonic Scholarship:The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society 1 (2). ISBN 0-8371-9899-2
- ↑ "Schuberth, Julius Ferdinand Georg" (in German). University of Magdeburg. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
- ↑ http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Wood%252C%2BAbraham/all/1 Harmonia Mundi
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