1825 in music
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- First performance 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...
's Ninth Symphony in England - François-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien BoïeldieuFrançois-Adrien Boieldieu was a French composer, mainly of operas, often called "the French Mozart".-Biography:...
's opera La dame blancheLa Dame blancheLa dame blanche is an opéra comique in three acts by the French composer François-Adrien Boieldieu. The libretto was written by Eugène Scribe and is based on episodes from no less than five of the works by Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott, including his novels The Monastery, Guy Mannering, and The...
premieres in Paris. - Maria MalibranMaria MalibranThe mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran , was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity, becoming a legendary figure after her death at age 28...
makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of SevilleThe Barber of SevilleThe Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution is an opera buffa in two acts by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Cesare Sterbini. The libretto was based on Pierre Beaumarchais's comedy Le Barbier de Séville , which was originally an opéra comique, or a mixture of spoken play with music...
. - Friedrich KuhlauFriedrich KuhlauFriedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....
visits 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...
and meets Beethoven. - Josef LannerJosef LannerJoseph Lanner was an Austrian dance music composer. He was best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake...
and Johann Strauss IJohann Strauss IJohann Strauss I , born in Vienna, was an Austrian Romantic composer famous for his waltzes, and for popularizing them alongside Joseph Lanner, thereby setting the foundations for his sons to carry on his musical dynasty...
part company.
Classical music
- Juan Crisóstomo ArriagaJuan 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...
– Symphony in D major - 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...
- String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat majorString Quartet No. 13 (Beethoven)The String Quartet No. 13 in B major, op. 130, by Ludwig van Beethoven was completed in November 1825. The number traditionally assigned to it is based on the order of its publication; it is actually the fourteenth quartet in order of composition. It was premiered in March 1826 by the Schuppanzigh...
- String Quartet No. 15 in A MinorString Quartet No. 15 (Beethoven)The Quartet in A minor, Op. 132, by Ludwig van Beethoven, was written in 1825, given its public premiere on November 6 of that year by the Schuppanzigh Quartet and was dedicated to Count Nicolai Galitzin, as were Opp. 127 and 130...
- String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major
- Jean-François Lesueur – Te Deum (for the coronation of King Charles X of FranceCharles X of FranceCharles X was known for most of his life as the Comte d'Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. A younger brother to Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him...
) - Felix MendelssohnFelix MendelssohnJakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
- Octet for StringsOctet (Mendelssohn)Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20 was composed in the autumn of 1825 , when the composer was aged 16. He wrote it as a birthday gift for his friend and violin teacher Eduard Rietz ; it was slightly revised in 1832 before the first public performance on 30 January 1836 at the...
Opera
- Vincenzo BelliniVincenzo BelliniVincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was an Italian opera composer. His greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi , La sonnambula , Norma , Beatrice di Tenda , and I puritani...
– Adelson e SalviniAdelson e SalviniAdelson e Salvini is a three act opera semiseria composed by Vincenzo Bellini from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. The opera was based on the 1772 novel Épreuves du Sentiment by François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud, and it draws on a previously performed play by Prospère... - 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...
– Alahor in Granata - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
– Don Sanche ou le Chateau d'AmourDon SancheDon Sanche, ou Le château de l'amour , S.1, is an opera in one act composed in 1824-25 by Franz Liszt, with French libretto by Théaulon and de Rancé, based on a story by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. For 30 years it was believed to be lost until it was rediscovered in 1903...
(Don Sanche or the Castle of Love) - Giovanni PaciniGiovanni PaciniGiovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas...
– L'ultimo giorno di Pompei - Nicola VaccaiNicola VaccaiNicola Vaccai was an Italian composer, particularly of operas, and a singing teacher.-Life and career as a composer:...
– Giulietta e Romeo
Popular music
- "Cherry Ripe" – w. HerrickRobert Herrick (poet)Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English poet.-Early life:Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith....
, m. Charles Edward HornCharles Edward HornCharles Edward Horn was an English composer and singer. He was born in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London to Charles Frederick Horn and his wife, Diana Dupont. He was the eldest of their seven children. His father taught him music; he also took music lessons briefly in 1808 from singer Venanzio... - "The Minstrel's Return'd From The War" – John Hill HewittJohn Hill HewittJohn Hill Hewitt was an American songwriter, playwright, and poet. He is best known for his songs about the American South, including "A Minstrel's Return from the War", "The Soldier's Farewell", "The Stonewall Quickstep", and "Somebody's Darling"...
Births
- January 23 – Louis EhlertLouis EhlertLouis Ehlert was a German composer and music critic.Ehlert entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1845, where he studied under Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn. In 1850 he moved to Berlin where he was a critic and teacher. From 1869 until 1871 he taught at the Schule des höheren Klavierspiels...
, composer and music critic (d. 1884) - February 28 – Jean-Baptiste ArbanJean-Baptiste ArbanJoseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, pedagogue and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet à piston or valved cornet...
, cornet virtuoso and conductor (d. 1889) - March 12 – August MannsAugust MannsSir August Friedrich Manns was a German-born conductor who made his career in England. After serving as a military bandmaster in Germany, he moved to England and soon became director of music at London's Crystal Palace. He increased the resident band to full symphonic strength and for more than...
, conductor (d. 1907) - June 30 – HervéHervé (composer)Hervé , real name Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger, was a French singer, composer, librettist, conductor and scene painter, whom Ernest Newman, following Reynaldo Hahn, credited with inventing the genre of operetta in Paris.-Life:Hervé was born in Houdain near Arras...
, singer, conductor and composer of operettas (d. 1892) - August 7 – Gaetano AntoniazziGaetano AntoniazziGaetano Antoniazzi was an Italian violin-maker.Antoniazzi was born in Cremona, where he learned his craft in the Ceruti workshop before establishing himself in Milan in 1870 and bringing with him the Cremonese tradition of his teachers Enrico and Giovanni Battista Ceruti...
, violin-maker (d. 1897) - August 21 – Kate LoderKate LoderKate Fanny Loder, later Lady Thompson, was an English composer and pianist.-Biography:Kate Loder was born in Bath, where the Loder family were prominent musicians. Her father was the flautist George Loder. Her mother, a piano teacher born Fanny Philpot, was the sister of the pianist Lucy Anderson...
, pianist and composer (d. 1904) - August 22 – Julius SchulhoffJulius SchulhoffJulius Schulhoff, was a Bohemian pianist and composer of Jewish birth. He was the great-uncle of the 20th century composer Erwin Schulhoff....
, pianist and composer (d. 1898) - September 25 – Johann Strauss IIJohann Strauss IIJohann Strauss II , also known as Johann Baptist Strauss or Johann Strauss, Jr., the Younger, or the Son , was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas...
, conductor and composer (d. 1899) - December 19 – George Frederick BristowGeorge Frederick BristowGeorge Frederick Bristow was an American composer. He advocated American classical music, rather than favoring European pieces. He was famously involved in a related controversy involving William Henry Fry and the New York Philharmonic Society.-Musical career:Bristow was born into a musical...
, composer (d. 1898) - date unknown
- Balbina SteffenoneBalbina SteffenoneBalbina Steffenone was a 19th century soprano.Born in Turin, Italy, she studied in Bologna under Teresa Bertinotti, debuting as Lucia in Macerata in 1842. After singing across Italy, she spent 1845-47 singing at Covent Garden, then went to North America, where she stayed for seven years...
, operatic soprano (d. 1896) - Jovan SundečićJovan SundecicJovan Sundečić , was a Serbian poet from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and a secretary of Prince Nikola I of Montenegro...
, poet and lyricist (d. 1900) - Charles WelsCharles WelsCharles Wels was a Bohemian-American pianist, organist, composer, and music teacher. He studied under Václav Tomášek before relocating to the US. In the US he did piano compositions and a funeral march for Abraham Lincoln...
, pianist, organist, composer and music teacher (d. 1906)
- Balbina Steffenone
Deaths
- February 5 – Pierre GaveauxPierre GaveauxPierre Gaveaux was a French operatic tenor and composer, notable for creating the role of Jason in Cherubini's Médée and for composing the first operatic version of the story that later found fame as Fidelio....
, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1761) - March 24 – Giovanni Domenico PerottiGiovanni Domenico PerottiGiovanni Domenico Perotti was an Italian composer....
, composer (b. 1761) - May 6 – Lady Anne BarnardLady Anne BarnardLady Anne Barnard , née Anne Lindsay, eldest daughter of James Lindsay, 5th Earl of Balcarres was born at Balcarres House, Fife, Scotland. She was author of the ballad Auld Robin Gray and an accomplished travel writer, artist and socialite of the period...
, balladeer (b. 1750) - May 7 – Antonio SalieriAntonio SalieriAntonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
, composer (b. 1750) - May 12 – Elias MannElias MannElias Mann was born May 8 1750 in Weymouth, Massachusetts and died in Northhampton May 12, 1825. Elias Mann was one of the first American composers. He was one of the men responsible for founding the Massachusetts Musical Society-Scores:...
(b. 1750) - July 10 – Ludwig FischerLudwig Fischer (bass)Johann Ignaz Ludwig Fischer , commonly called Ludwig Fischer, was a German opera singer, a notable bass of his time.-Life:...
, operatic bass (b. 1745) - July 29 – Micah HawkinsMicah HawkinsMicah Hawkins was an American poet, playwright, and composer, largely of music for theater, who also operated a New York City tavern and grocery store....
, composer and writer (b. 1777) - August 3 – Ambrogio MinojaAmbrogio MinojaAmbrogio Minoja was a classical composer from Italy, born in Ospedaletto Lodigiano, in the territory of Lodi, in the region of Lombardy...
, composer (b. 1752) - August 23 – Amos BullAmos BullAmos Bull was one of the first American composers. In 1795 he authored, The Responsary, a book of hymns that was used in New England churches st the time.-References:...
, composer (b. 1744) - September 13 – Luigi BassiLuigi BassiLuigi Bassi, Pesaro, 5 September 1766 – Dresden, 13 September 1825, was an Italian operatic baritone.When writing his Life of Rossini, Stendhal tells of the time in 1813 when he met Bassi in Dresden and spoke of "Mr Mozart;" Bassi said he was entranced that someone should still refer to him as "Mr"...
, operatic baritone (b. 1766) - November 1 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
- November 19 – Jan Václav VoříšekJan Václav VoríšekJan Václav Hugo Voříšek , was a Czech composer of classical music, pianist, and organist.-Life:...
, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1791) - December 29 – Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer
- December 30 – Peter Gronland, composer
- probable – Giuseppe CambiniGiuseppe CambiniGiuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini was an Italian composer and violinist.Born in Livorno, it is likely that Cambini studied violin with Filippo Manfredi; the only evidence for this is however Cambini's own unreliable account, which also claims inaccurately that he worked with Luigi Boccherini and...
, violinist and composer (b. 1746)