1802 in music
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Events
- January 9 â The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.[1]
- January 20 â Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.[1]
- February 15 â Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.[1]
- March 19 â Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.[1]
- April 30 â Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.[1]
- May 5
- Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.[1]
- Composers Jan Ladislav Dussek and Louis Spohr are introduced by Herr Kiekhöver in Hamburg.
- July 20 â The chapel created by Napoleon in the Tuileries is officially opened, with Giovanni Paisiello as its musical director.[1]
- August 15 â Luigi Cherubini, Ãtienne-Nicolas Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Nicolò Isouard go into business as publishers of their own music.[1]
- October 6 â Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.[1]
- Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.[2]
Publications
- Charles-Simon Catel â Traité dâharmonie (Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Frédéric Duvernoy â Méthod pour le Cor (Mme Le Roi, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Johann Nikolaus Forkel â On Johann Sebastian Bachâs Life, Art, and Work: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art[3] (Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel)
- John Gunn â An Essay Theoretical and Practical (London: Preston, for the author)
- Christian Kalkbrenner â Histoire de la Musique (Paris: Amand KÅnig)
- Heinrich Christoph Koch â Musikalisches Lexikon (Frankfurt am Main: August Hermann der Jüngere)
- Jean-Xavier Lefèvre â Méthode de clarinette (Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Georg Joseph Vogler â Handbuch zur Harmonielehre (Prague: K. Barth)
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Second Symphony[4]
- 6 Ländler, WoO 15
- Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
- "No, Non Tubarti", WoO 92a
- "Ne' giorni tuoi felici", WoO 93
- "Graf, Graf, Liebster Graf" WoO 101
- Piano Sonata No. 16
- Piano Sonata No. 17
- Piano Sonata No. 18
- 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
- 6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34
- Eroica Variations, Op. 35
- Matthieu Frédéric Blasius â Clarinet Concerto No. 1
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini â Wind Quintet Nos.1â3
- Muzio Clementi â 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 40
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Duo in F major, Op. 26
- Piano Sonata No.17, Op. 43
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 19â21, Op. 45
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 22â23, Op. 47
- Emanuel Aloys Förster â 3 String Quartets, Op. 21
- Joseph Haydn â Harmoniemesse, his last major work [5]
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)[6]
- Franz Krommer
- Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
- Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35[7]
- Ignaz Pleyel â Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt â Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)[1]
- Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
- Anton Ferdinand Titz â 3 String Quartets
- Samuel Wesley â Symphony in B-flat[1]
- Carl Friedrich Zelter â Sammlung kleiner Balladen und Lieder, Z.123
Opera
- Charles-Simon Catel â Sémiramis
- Michael Kelly â Urania[8]
- Giovanni Simone Mayr â I misteri eleusini (premiered Jan. 6 in Milan)
- Etienne Nicolas Méhul â Le trésor supposé
- William Reeve â Family Quarrels (comic opera)
- Carl Maria von Weber â Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn
Births
- February 7 â Johann Nepomuk Vogl, lyricist (died 1866)
- February 20 â Charles-Auguste de Bériot, composer and violinist (died 1870)
- February 25 â Georg Scheurlin, music publisher (died 1872)
- February 26 â Victor Hugo, librettist and poet (died 1885)
- March 3 â Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
- March 5 â James Turle, editor and organist (died 1882)
- May 31
- Eduard Grund, composer (died 1871)
- Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (died 1870)
- July 3 â Joseph Labitzky, composer and conductor (died 1881)
- July 12 â Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer[9] (died 1852)
- July 15 â John Barnett, English composer (died 1890)
- July 24 â Alexandre Dumas, librettist and writer (died 1870)
- July 27 â Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
- August 13 â Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (died 1850)
- August 23 â Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
- August 28 â Karl Joseph Simrock, librettist and poet (died 1876)
- September 18 â Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, composer (died 1874)
- September 19 â Lajos Kossuth, dedicatee and politician (died 1894)
- September 24 â Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, librettist and Lord Chief Justice (died 1880)
- October 7 â Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
- October 10 â George Pope Morris, librettist and publisher (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy, pianist and composer (died c. 1880)
- Ureli Corelli Hill, conductor (died 1875)
- George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
- Marion Dix Sullivan, American composer (died 1860)
- José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)
Deaths
- January 27 â Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, conductor and composer, 42
- March 7 â Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, 51
- April 10 â Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano, 67
- April 18 â Erasmus Darwin, lyricist and physician (born 1731)
- July 26 â Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter and musician, 41 (yellow fever)[10]
- July 28 â Giuseppe Sarti, composer, 72
- August 10 â Antonio Lolli, violinist and composer (born c. 1725)
- August 23 â Corona Schröter, singer, 51
- September 28 â Heinrich Harries, lyricist and pastor (born 1762)
- October 2 â Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher, 65
- October 22 â Samuel Arnold, composer and organist, 62