1800 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1800.
Events
- January 16 â Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), is premièred in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.[1]
- February 22 â Lorenzo da Ponte, best known as Mozart's former librettist, goes bankrupt in London; his partner in the publishing business, Jan Ladislav Dussek, has already gone into hiding.[1]
- March 28 â Anton Weidinger gives the first public performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major at the Vienna Burgtheater.[1]
- April 2 â Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 debuts at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- April 21 â Haydn's Creation is performed in London. In the interval, Samuel Wesley plays one of his own organ concertos.[1]
- June 2 â The premiere of Cesare in Farmacusa, with music by Antonio Salieri and words by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, takes place at the Kärntnertortheater, Vienna.[1]
- September 6 â During Lord Nelson's visit to Eisenstadt, his companion Emma, Lady Hamilton, performs Haydn's Arianna a Naxos and The Battle of the Nile, with Haydn himself on piano.
- September 16 â François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.
- October 8 â Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz pays Ludwig van Beethoven 200 florins for his String Quartets.[1]
- October 14 â Nine-year-old prodigy Jakob Meyer Beer makes his début on the concert platform, playing a Mozart piano concerto; Jakob later reinvents himself as Giacomo Meyerbeer.[1]
- December 1 â Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel establish the Bureau de Musique, a music publishing company, in Leipzig.[1]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony No. 1
- Piano Concerto No. 3 (composed; first performance in 1803)
- Piano Sonata in B-flat Major Op. 22
- Piano Sonata in A-flat Major Op. 26
- François Adrien Boieldieu â Harp concerto in C Major
- Bartolomeo Campagnoli â 6 Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 10
- Adelaide Suzanne Camille Delaval â Prelude, Divertimento and Waltz, Op. 3
- Jan Ladislav Dussek â Piano Sonata No.18, Op. 44
- Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari â 3 Trio Sonatas, Op. 25
- Adalbert Gyrowetz â Divertissement, Op. 50
- Louis-Emmanuel Jadin â 3 String Quartets, Livre 1
- Leopold Kozeluch â Three Grand Sonatas for piano accompanied by violin and cello[1]
- Franz Krommer â 3 String Quartets, Op. 18
- Wenzel Thomas Matiegka â Fantaisie in C major, Op. 4
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt â Der Jubel oder Juchhei (liederspiel)[1]
- Carl Maria von Weber â 6 Variations sur un thème original, Op. 2 1832
Opera
- François Adrien Boieldieu â Le Calife de Bagdad
- Luigi Cherubini â Les deux journées
- Ferdinando Paer â La testa riscaldata, La sonnambula, Ginevra degli Almieri and Poche ma buone
- William Reeve â Paul and Virginia
- Antonio Salieri â Cesare in Farmacusa and L'Angiolina
- Carl Maria von Weber â Das stumme Waldmädchen
Methods and theory writings
- Anton Bemetzrieder â A Complete Treatise on Music (London: Thomas Rickaby)
- Johann Dalberg â Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der Harmonie (Erfurt: Beyer und Maring)
- Gottlieb Graupner â A New Preceptor for the German Flute (Boston: G. Graupner)
- P. Hoey â A Plain and Concise Method of Learning the Gregorian Note (Dublin: P. Wogan)
- Samuel Holyoke â The Instrumental Assistant (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet)
- William Shield â An Introduction to Harmony (London: printed for the Author, sold by G. G. & J. Robinson)
- Georg Joseph Vogler
- Choral-System (Kopenhagen: Haly'schen Musikhandlung)
- Musik-skole (Kiøbenhavn: Niels Christensen)
Births
- January 1
- Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer (died 1886)
- Johann Kulik, luthier (died 1872)
- January 11 â Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Italian operatic soprano (died 1853)
- January 14 â Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, music researcher and composer (died 1877)
- March 5 â Georg Friedrich Daumer, librettist and philosopher (died 1875)
- May 5 â Raymond Brucker, librettist and writer (died 1875)
- June 24 â Antonio James Oury (Anna Caroline Oury), composer and pianist (died 1880)
- July 30 â Alexander Veltman, lyricist and writer (died 1870)
- July 31 â Michel Masson, lyricist and writer (died 1883)
- August 26 â Joseph Christoph Kessler, German pianist and composer (died 1872)
- October 12 â Francesco Florimo, composer and music historian (died 1888)
- November 6 â Eduard Grell, composer and conductor (died 1886)
- December 1 â Mihály Vörösmarty, lyricist and poet (died 1855)
- December 4 â Emil Aarestrup, lyricist and poet (died 1856)
- date unknown
- Eduard Brendler, composer (died 1831)
- Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan, French operatic soprano (died 1865)
- Pavel Mochalov, lyricist and actor (died 1848)
Deaths
- January 4 â Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian castrato and singing teacher (born 1714)
- January 6 â William Jones, music theorist and clergyman (born 1726)
- March 9 â Dominique Della-Maria, composer and mandolin virtuoso (born 1768)
- April 29 â Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer (born 1733)
- May 7 â Niccolò Piccinni, composer (born 1728)
- June 6 â Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer (born 1771)
- June 10 â Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, composer (born 1747)
- June 11 â Margarethe Danzi, German composer and soprano (born 1768)
- August 3 â Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer (born 1736)
- August 4 â Julije Bajamonti, composer and historian (born 1744)
- September 8 â Pierre Gaviniès, French violinist and composer (born 1728)
- September 26 â William Billings, America's first major composer (born 1746)
- September 27 â Hyacinthe Jadin, French composer (born 1776; tuberculosis)[2]