1807 in music
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Events
- Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
begins negotiating for British publication rights to the music of 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...
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...
– Mass in C - 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 :...
– Hélène and Paris (ballet)
Published popular music
- Thomas MooreThomas MooreThomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death...
– Irish melodies (music by John StevensonJohn Stevenson (composer)Sir John Andrew Stevenson was an Irish composer of classical music. He is best known for his publications of Irish Melodies with poet Thomas Moore...
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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...
- Joseph – Etienne-Nicolas Méhul
- La VestaleLa vestaleLa vestale is an opera composed by Gaspare Spontini to a French libretto by Etienne de Jouy. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra in Paris on December 15, 1807 and is regarded as Spontini's masterpiece...
(The Vestal Virgin) first performed in Paris. Music by Gaspare SpontiniGaspare SpontiniGaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italian opera composer and conductor, extremely celebrated in his time, though largely forgotten after his death.-Biography:...
and libretto by Etienne Jouy.
Births
- February 15 – Ignacy Dobrzynski, PolishPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
symphonist (d. 1867) - March 7 – Adolph Methfessel, German composer (d. 1878)
- March 30 – Henrik RungHenrik RungHenrik Rung was a Danish composer.-Link:*...
, composer (d. 1871) - June 6 – Adrien-Francois ServaisAdrien-Francois ServaisAdrien-François Servais was one of the most influential cellists of the nineteenth century. He was born and died in Halle, Belgium.Servais was originally trained as a violinist before switching to the cello...
, cellist (d. 1866) - September 11 – Ignaz LachnerIgnaz LachnerIgnaz Lachner , was a German composer and conductor.Ignaz Lachner was born into a musical family at Rain am Lech. He was the second of the three famous Lachner brothers. Lachner's brothers Franz and Vinzenz, were also composers...
(d. 1895) - date unknown
- Joseph CasavantJoseph CasavantJoseph Casavant was a French Canadian manufacturer of pipe organs.Originally a blacksmith, Casavant gave up his trade at age 27 to pursue classical studies. He happened upon a 1766 treatise by Dom Bédos de Celles on organ building, called L'Art du Facteur d'Orgues, which he subsequently used to...
, manufacturer of pipe organs (d. 1874) - James P. ClarkeJames P. Clarke (composer)James P. Clarke was a Canadian composer. He was the first person to receive a bachelor's degree in music in North America. He is best known for his work Lays of the Maple Leaf .-Life:...
, composer (d. 1877)
- Joseph Casavant
Deaths
- February 25 – Jeanne-Marie MarsanJeanne-Marie MarsanJeanne-Marie Marsan was a French dramatic actress and an opera singer, active in France and Germany in Europe, and in the French West Indies and Louisiana...
, actress and singer (b. 1746) - March 11 – Anton EberlAnton EberlAnton Eberl was an Austrian composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Eberl was born in Vienna and studied piano and composition from several teachers, including Mozart. Besides being an outstanding composer, he was a pianist of the first rank and toured throughout Europe. He wrote well over 200...
, pianist, composer and music teacher (b. 1765) - June 15 – Charles BernardyCharles BernardyCharles-Alexandre Bernard , known as Charles Bernardy, was a dancer, choreographer and dancing master....
, dancer and choreographer (b. 1724) - December 21 – John NewtonJohn NewtonJohn Henry Newton was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career on the sea at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of...
, author of the hymn, Amazing GraceAmazing Grace"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...
(b. 1725) - date unknown – John Skinner, songwriter (b. 1721)