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- January 16 – Luigi CherubiniLuigi CherubiniLuigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....
's operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), debuts in ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
at the Salle Feydeau. - September 16 – François-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".-Biography:...
's operaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
, Le calife de BagdadLe calife de BagdadLe calife de Bagdad is an opera comique in one act by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu with a libretto by Claude de Saint-Just . It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique, Paris on 16 September 1800 and soon became highly popular throughout Europe. It was Boieldieu's first major...
, opens at ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
's Salle Favart.
Classical music
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
– Symphony No. 1Symphony No. 1 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21, was dedicated to Baron Gottfried van Swieten, an early patron of the composer. The piece was published in 1801 by Hoffmeister & Kühnel of Leipzig... - Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
– Piano Concerto No. 3Piano Concerto No. 3 (Beethoven)The Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven in 1800 and was first performed on 5 April 1803, with the composer as soloist. During that same performance, the Second Symphony and the oratorio Christ on the Mount of Olives were also debuted. The composition...
(Composed; first performance 1803)
Opera
- Luigi CherubiniLuigi CherubiniLuigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....
- Les deux journéesLes deux journéesLes deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau is an opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini with a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. It takes the form of an opéra comique, meaning not that the subject matter is humorous, but that the piece is a mixture of spoken dialogue and musical numbers... - William ReeveWilliam ReeveWilliam Reeve was an English theatre composer and organist.-Biography:Reeve was born in London. He initially studied to be a law stationer but abandoned his studies in order to study the organ with a Mr Richardson of St James's, Westminster. He became an organist in Totnes, Devon in 1781...
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Births
- January 1 – Johann KulikJohann KulikJohann Kulik - considered one of the best Prague makers / luthier of the 19th century.He was a pupil of Schembera, Prague, and of Martin Stoss, Vienna....
, luthier (d. 1872) - January 14 – Ludwig von Köchel, music researcher and composer (d. 1877)
- November 4 – Eduard BrendlerEduard BrendlerEduard Brendler was a Swedish composer. He was born in Germany but his family moved to Sweden at the age of 1. He died before completing his romantic opera Ryno, or the errant knight "Ryno eller den vandrande riddaren: skådespel med sång i tre akter," to a libretto by Bernhard von Beskow, so the...
, composer
Deaths
- May 7 – Niccola Piccinni, composer (b. 1728)
- June 6 – Margareta Sofia LagerqvistMargareta Sofia LagerqvistMargareta Sofia Lagerqvist , was a noted Swedish opera singer and stage actor.She was employed as an opera singer at the Royal Swedish Opera, and as an actor at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, in 1788-99, and additionally as both an actor and a singer at the Stenborg Theatre in Stockholm in 1784-99.Her...
(b.1771) - June 10 – Johann Abraham Peter SchulzJohann Abraham Peter SchulzJohann Abraham Peter Schulz was a German musician and composer. Today he is best known as the composer of the melody for Matthias Claudius's poem "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" and the Christmas carol "Ihr Kinderlein kommet".-Life:Schulz attended the Michaelis School from 1757 to 1759 and then the...
, composer (b. 1747) - August 3 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1736)
- September 26 – William BillingsWilliam BillingsWilliam Billings was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music...
, America's first major composer (b. 1746) - date unknown – Johann Christian FischerJohann Christian FischerJohann Carl Christian Fischer was a German composer. Employed as a music copyist and theatre director for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, Fischer is now credited with the unique Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani, formerly attributed to Johann Wilhelm Hertel, court composer at...
, composer (b. 1733)