1805 in music
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- 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...
's Symphony No. 3Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 in E flat major , also known as the Eroica , is a landmark musical work marking the full arrival of the composer's "middle-period," a series of unprecedented large scale works of emotional depth and structural rigor.The symphony is widely regarded as a mature...
, Eroica is premiered in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
on 1805-04-07. - 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...
's opera Leonore (the first version of FidelioFidelioFidelio is a German opera in two acts by Ludwig van Beethoven. It is Beethoven's only opera. The German libretto is by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly which had been used for the 1798 opera Léonore, ou L’amour conjugal by Pierre Gaveaux, and for the 1804 opera Leonora...
) is premiered in ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
. - Louis SpohrLouis SpohrLouis Spohr was a German composer, violinist and conductor. Born Ludewig Spohr, he is usually known by the French form of his name. Described by Dorothy Mayer as "The Forgotten Master", Spohr was once as famous as Beethoven. As a violinist, his virtuoso playing was admired by Queen Victoria...
is appointed musical director to the court of Gotha. - Niccolò PaganiniNiccolò PaganiniNiccolò Paganini was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was one of the most celebrated violin virtuosi of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique...
begins touring Europe.
Opera
- Michele CarafaMichele CarafaMichele Enrico Carafa di Colobrano was an Italian opera composer. He was born in Naples and studied in Paris with Luigi Cherubini. He was Professor of counterpoint at the Paris Conservatoire from 1840 to 1858...
– Il Fantasma - 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....
– FaniskaFaniskaFaniska is an opéra comique in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on Les mines de Pologne by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.-Background:... - James HookJames Hook (composer)James Hook was an English composer and organist.-Life and musical career:He was born in Norwich, the son of James Hook, a razor-grinder and cutler. He displayed a remarkable musical talent at an early age, playing the harpsichord by the age of four and performing concertos in public at age six...
– The Soldier's Return
Births
- January 7 – Philip KlitzPhilip KlitzPhilip Klitz , was a British-born composer.Klitz was born at Lymington, Hampshire. His father, George Philip Klitz, drum-major of the royal Flintshire militia, and musical composer, was born at Biebrich, Germany, in 1777, and died at Lymington in 1839...
, composer (d. 1854) - March 5 – Théodore LabarreThéodore LabarreThéodore François Joseph Labarre , aged 65, was a French harpist and composer. He lived in Paris and in London and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1823 as well as the Légion d'honneur in 1862. He was a professor of harp at the Conservatoire de Paris since 1867.-External links:...
, harpist and composer (d. 1870) - March 17 – Manuel Patricio Rodríguez GarcíaManuel Patricio Rodríguez GarcíaManuel Patricio Rodríguez García , was a Spanish singer, music educator, and vocal pedagogue.-Biography:García was born on 17 March 1805 in the town of Zafra in Badajoz Province, Spain. His father was singer and teacher Manuel del Pópulo Vicente Rodriguez García...
, singer and music teacher (d. 19061906 in music-Events:* February - Abyssinia premiered at the Majestic Theatre , with a score co-written by Bert Williams, including premiere of Nobody.* May 27 - Gustav Mahler's Symphony No...
) - May 14 - Johan Peter Emilius HartmannJohan Peter Emilius HartmannJohan Peter Emilius Hartmann was a Danish composer.-Biography:Hartmann came from a musical family of German descent. Although he received his music lessons initially from his father, he taught himself as much as possible...
, composer (d. 19001900 in music-Events:*January 14 - Giacomo Puccini's Tosca receives its première in Rome.*February 2 - Gustave Charpentier's opera Louise receives its première in Paris; Mary Garden makes her public debut in the title role in April....
) - July 8 – Luigi Ricci, opera composer (d. 1859)
- July 27 – Luigi Felice RossiLuigi Felice RossiLuigi Felice Rossi was an Italian composer, music teacher, musicologist, and music theorist. He mainly composed instrumental and sacred music. He did write one opera, Gli avventurieri , which premiered successfully in Turin in 1835...
, composer and musicologist (d. 1863) - October 28 – John ThomsonJohn Thomson (composer)John Thomson was a Scottish classical composer. He was born in Sprouston, Roxburghshire, the son of the Minister of Sprouston Church...
, composer (d. 18411841 in music- Events :*Robert Schumann writes two symphonies: Symphony No. 1 in Bb, opus 38 , and Symphony No. 4 in D-minor, opus 120...
) - November 1 – Alessandro NiniAlessandro NiniAlessandro Nini was an Italian composer of operas and church music, also chamber music and symphonies. Of the eight operas he composed, La marescialla d'Ancre is considered his best work. He also contributed to a portion of Messa per Rossini. Specifically the fifth section of II...
, composer (d. 18801880 in music-Events:*Richard Strauss' first major work, a symphony in D minor, is premiered.*Gustav Mahler obtains work as a conductor at a summer theatre at Bad Hall.*Richard Wagner publishes his autobiography.-Published popular music:...
) - November 14 – Fanny Hensel, pianist and composer (d. 18471847 in music-Events:*February 28 - Fire breaks out during a performance and destroys the Großherzoglichen Hoftheater in Baden. Because the theatre doors cannot be opened from the inside, most of the audience perishes....
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Deaths
- January 23 – Wenzel PichlWenzel PichlWenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer....
, composer (b. 17411741 in music- Events :*November 25 – Marguerite-Antoinette Couperin, the first female court musician at the French court, sells her official post to Bernard de Bury.*Johann Friedrich Agricola arrives in Berlin to study musical composition under Johann Joachim Quantz....
) - February 4 – Johann George TromlitzJohann George TromlitzJohann George Tromlitz , born at Reinsdorf, near Artern, Germany, was a flautist, flute maker and composer.-External links:*...
, flautist (b. 1725) - April – Emerico Lobo de MesquitaEmerico Lobo de MesquitaJosé Joaquim Emerico Lobo de Mesquita was a Brazilian composer, music teacher, conductor and organist.-Life:Emerico was born at Vila do Príncipe , in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. His parents José Lobo the Mesquita and Joaquina Emerenciana gave him a liberal education...
, organist, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1746) - April 28 Peter PelhamPeter Pelham (composer)Peter Pelham was an English-born American organist, harpsichordist, teacher and composer.Pelham was born in London. His father, also named Peter Pelham, was an engraver and an artist. Around 1730 the Pelhams immigrated to Boston, where the father apprenticed his son to Charles Theodore Pachelbel...
, harpsichordist, organist and composer (b. 1721) - May 10 – Johann Evangelist HaydnJohann Evangelist HaydnJohann Evangelist Haydn was a tenor singer of the classical era; the younger brother of the composers Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn. He was often called "Hansl", a diminutive form of "Johann"....
, tenor, brother of Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
and Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
(b. 1743) - May 28 – Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
, composer (b. 1743) - August – Ann GriffithsAnn GriffithsAnn Griffiths was a Welsh poet and writer of Methodist Christian hymns.-Biography:Ann was born in April 1776 near the village of Llanfihangel-yng-Ngwynfa, six miles from the market town of Llanfyllin in Powys...
, hymn-writer (b. 17761776 in music-Events:*Charles Burney publishes his History of Music*Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera season*Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden*Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great-Popular music:...
) - November – HamoirHamoir (dancer)Jean Malter , known as Hamoir, was a French ballet dancer and theatre director. He was one of the last of the Malter family, an 18th century dynasty of dancers....
, dancer and theatre director - December 18 – Gennaro AstaritaGennaro AstaritaGennaro Astarita was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. The place of his birth is unknown, although he was active in Naples for many years. He became the maestro di cappella there in 1770. He is also considered to have played an important role in the development of opera in Russia...
, opera composer (b. c.1745)