1816 in music
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- Louise ReichardtLouise ReichardtLouise Reichardt was a German songwriter and composer.-Biography:Louise Reichardt was born in Berlin. She was the daughter of composers Juliane Reichardt and Johann Friedrich Reichardt and granddaughter of Franz Benda , concert master at the court of Frederick the Great...
becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
in LübeckLübeckThe Hanseatic City of Lübeck is the second-largest city in Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany, and one of the major ports of Germany. It was for several centuries the "capital" of the Hanseatic League and, because of its Brick Gothic architectural heritage, is listed by UNESCO as a World...
. - Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
is appointed Kappellmeister at DresdenDresdenDresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
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Classical music
- Piano Sonata No. 28Piano Sonata No. 28 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101, was written in 1816 and was dedicated to the pianist Baroness Dorothea Ertmann. This piano sonata runs for about 20 minutes and consists of four movements:...
– 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... - Requiem in C-minor – 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....
- Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen – Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
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...
– Gabriella di Vergy - 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...
– Il PigmalioneIl PigmalioneFor the opera by Cherubini, see PimmalioneIl Pigmalione is an opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto of Antonio Simeone Sografi. It is Donizetti's first opera and was written between September and October 1816, when the composer was 19... - Ferdinand Hérold & François Adrien Boieldieu – Charles de France
- Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Otello
- Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo
Births
- February 26 – Franz KrennFranz KrennFranz Krenn was an Austrian composer and composition teacher.Born in Droß, Krenn studied under Ignaz von Seyfried in Vienna. He served as organist in a number of Viennese churches and in 1862 became Kapellmeister of the Vienna Hofkirche...
, composer and music teacher (d. 1897) - March 19 – Johannes VerhulstJohannes VerhulstJohannes Joseph Hermann Verhulst was a Dutch composer and conductor. As a composer mainly of songs and as administrator of Dutch musical life, his influence during his lifetime was considerable.-Life:As a boy, Verhulst sang in a catholic choir; here he distinguished himself by his gift for music...
, conductor and composer (d. 1891) - April 13 – William Sterndale BennettWilliam Sterndale BennettSir William Sterndale Bennett was an English composer. He ranks as the most distinguished English composer of the Romantic school-Biography:...
, pianist and composer (d. 1875) - April 26 – Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
- September 4 – François BazinFrançois BazinFrançois Emmanuel Joseph Bazin was a well-known French opera composer during the nineteenth century. His works are not widely performed today.-Biography:...
, opera composer (d. 1878) - November 17 – August Wilhelm AmbrosAugust Wilhelm AmbrosAugust Wilhelm Ambros was an Austrian composer and music historian of Czech descent.- Life :He was born at Mýto, Rokycany District, Bohemia. His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter , the musical archaeologist and collector...
, composer and music historian (d. 1876) - November 24 – Matteo SalviMatteo SalviMatteo Salvi was a composer of opera and classical music and a theatre director.Salvi was born in Botta di Sedrina , Italy...
, composer (d. 1887) - December 8 – Edvard HelstedEdvard HelstedEdvard Mads Ebbe Helsted was a Danish composer. He was born in Copenhagen and died in Frederiksborg.-References:*This article was initially translated from Danish Wikipedia...
, composer (d. 1900) - date unknown – Edward EdwardsEdward Edwards (musician)Edward Edwards , also known by his bardic name of "Pencerdd Ceredigion", was a Welsh musician and composer.He was born in Aberystwyth and became a regular churchgoer at Llanbadarn Fawr, joining the choir. When the family moved to Capel Dewi, he was appointed precentor of the local chapel. Later...
, musician and composer (d. 1897)
Deaths
- February 10 – Jean Paul Egide MartiniJean Paul Egide MartiniJean Paul Egide Martini, was a composer of classical music. Sometimes known as Martini Il Tedesco, he is best known today for the vocal romance "Plaisir d'Amour," on which the 1961 Elvis Presley standard "Can't Help Falling in Love" is based...
, composer (b. 1741) - March 16 – Giuseppe JannaconiGiuseppe JannaconiGiuseppe Jannaconi was an Italian composer, one of the last in the style of Palestrina.Jannaconi was born in Rome, and studied under S. Rinaldini and Giuseppe Carpani. He is known for scoring many of Palestrina's works, aided by his friend Pasquale Pisari, as well as composing many of pieces of...
, composer (b. 1741) - March 23 – Ignaz VitzthumbIgnaz VitzthumbIgnaz or Ignace Vitzthumb was an Austrian musician, composer and conductor active in the Austrian Netherlands...
, conductor and composer (b. 1724) - May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (b. 1743)
- May 25 – Samuel WebbeSamuel WebbeSamuel Webbe was an English composer.Born in Minorca in 1740, Webbe was brought up in London. His father died when he was still a baby and his mother returned to London where she raised Webbe in difficult circumstances. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to a cabinet maker, and during the...
, composer (b. 1740) - June 5 – Giovanni PaisielloGiovanni PaisielloGiovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and...
, composer (b. 1740) - July 31 – Josef FialaJosef FialaJosef Fiala , was a composer, oboist, viola da gamba virtuoso, cellist, and pedagogue.He was born in Lochovice in Bohemia and began his professional career as an oboist in the service of Countess Netolicka. In 1777 he moved to Munich to serve in the court orchestra of Elector Maximilian Joseph...
, musician and composer (b. 1748) - date unknown
- Margareta AlströmerMargareta AlströmerMargareta Hedvig Alströmer, as married Cronstedt af Fullerö, , was a Swedish painter, singer and countess...
, singer and artist (b. 1763) - João José BaldiJoão José BaldiJoão José Baldi was a composer who was pianist at the court of the Marquis of Alorna and opera conductor in Leiria. He was a classical composer who composed mostly religious music: requiems. He was known in Leiria for his operas. He died in Lisbon, Portugal.-References:*...
, pianist and composer (b. 1770)
- Margareta Alströmer