1806 in music
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- Carl CzernyCarl CzernyCarl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of études for the piano. Czerny's music was profoundly influenced by his teachers, Muzio Clementi, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Antonio Salieri and Ludwig van Beethoven.-Early life:Carl Czerny was born...
publishes his first composition at the age of 15. - The marimbaMarimbaThe marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. It consists of a set of wooden keys or bars with resonators. The bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones. The keys are arranged as those of a piano, with the accidentals raised vertically and overlapping the natural keys ...
is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala. - Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at BergamoBergamoBergamo is a town and comune in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to over 120,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
, Italy. Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
is one of its first pupils. - Marcussen & SønMarcussen & SønMarcussen & Søn, known as Marcussen and previously as Marcussen & Reuter, is a Danish firm of organ builders.They were one of the first firms to go back to classical organ-building techniques, and have been producing mechanical-action organs since 1930...
, DanishDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
organPipe organThe pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...
-building firm, founded. - The poem Twinkle Twinkle Little StarTwinkle Twinkle Little Star"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann...
is published in Rhymes for the NurseryRhymes for the NurseryRhymes for the Nursery is a collection of English poems by sisters Jane and Ann Taylor, published in London in 1806. Probably the best-known poem in it is "The Star" ....
; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.
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 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Violin Concerto, 3 String Quartets, Op 59. - Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
– 7 Hungarian Dances; 12 Minuets
Births
- January 3 – Henriette SontagHenriette SontagHenriette Sontag was a German operatic soprano of great international renown. She possessed a sweet-toned, lyrical voice and was a brilliant exponent of florid singing.-Life:...
, operatic soprano (d. 1854) - January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio Arriaga y BalzolaJuan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young...
, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826) - August 17 – Johann Kaspar MertzJohann Kaspar MertzJohann Kaspar Mertz was a Hungarian guitarist and composer.NOTE: THE ORIGINAL CREATOR OF THIS PAGE PLAGIARIZED THEIR MATERIAL. It has been copied and pasted from the Mel Bay website: http://www.melbay.com/authors.asp?author=749 I tried to report this problem to wikipedia, but they do not make it...
, guitarist and composer (d. 1856) - September 2 – Josef GusikovJosef Gusikovthumb|right|Joseph Gusikov, from Lewald's 'Europa' . Engraving by [[Josef Kriehuber]]Michal Josef Gusikov was a klezmer who gave the first performances of klezmer music to West European concert audiences on his 'wood and straw instrument'.- Gusikov and his instrument :thumb|left|Gusikow's...
, klezmer musician (d. 1837) - November 4 – Anders SelinderAnders SelinderAnders Selinder , , was a Swedish dancer, Ballet master, choreographer and director. He was master of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1833-1856....
, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874) - December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz BurgmüllerJohann Friedrich Franz BurgmüllerJohann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, generally known as Friedrich Burgmüller was a German pianist and composer.-Biography:...
, composer (d. 1874)
Deaths
- January 30 – Vicente Martín y SolerVicente Martín y SolerVicente Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure today, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. He has been called the Valencian Mozart.He was born in Valencia and studied...
, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754) - February – Tommaso GiordaniTommaso GiordaniTommaso Giordani was an Italian composer.Giordani was born in Naples and came from a musical family. His father was Carmine Giordani , who was born around 1695 in Naples, died after 1762, probably in London. A younger brother was Giuseppe Giordani , called "Giordanello"...
, composer (b. c. 1738) - February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
- March 23 – George PintoGeorge PintoGeorge Pinto was an English composer and keyboard virtuoso.-Family:He was baptized at St. Mary's, Lambeth on February 11, 1786 as George Sanders. Accounts of Pinto's life and character are tenuous. There seems to be no surviving correspondence, nor did he have any descendants preserving a family...
, composer (b. 1785) - June 14 – Domenico GuardasoniDomenico GuardasoniDomenico Guardasoni was an Italian tenor singer, opera producer and impresario.Guardasoni was born at Modena. Singing in Giuseppe Bustelli's touring opera company, he later became its director...
, operatic tenor (b. c.1731) - August 10 – Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
, composer (b. 1737) - date unknown
- Brigida BantiBrigida BantiBrigida Giorgi, better known by her husband's surname and her stage-name, as Brigida Banti was an Italian soprano.- Obscure beginnings :...
, operatic soprano (b. 1757) - José de LarrañagaJosé de LarrañagaFray José de Larrañaga was a Franciscan monk, organist, maestro de capilla of the Sanctuary of Arantzazu, composer, and active in the Basque musical and cultural movement of the 18th Century.-Life:...
, organist and composer (b. 1728) - Charles le PicqCharles le PicqCharles Le Picq was an influential French dancer and choreographer.Le Picq was a pupil of Jean Georges Noverre , one of the creators of modern ballet . He was called the Apollo of the dance and performed in many countries, such as France, Austria, Russia and Spain...
, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)
- Brigida Banti