1806 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1806.
Events
- Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition
- Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
- The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
- Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
- Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
- The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- 7 Hungarian Dances
- 12 Minuets
- Carl Maria von Weber â Concertino for Horn and Orchestra
- Joseph Wölfl â Piano Concerto No. 5 "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43
Opera
- Ãtienne Méhul â Uthal
Births
- January 3 â Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854)[1]
- January 27 â Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)[2]
- March 3 â Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist (d. 1885)[3]
- August 17 â Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
- September 2 â Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837)
- November 4 â Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
- December 4 â Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)
Deaths
- January 30 â Vicente MartÃn y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
- February 18 - Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1755)[4]
- February 23 â John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
- February 24 â Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738)
- March 16 â Giuseppe Colla, composer (b. 1731)[5]
- March 23 â George Pinto, composer (b. 1785)
- June 14 â Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731)
- August 10 â Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737)
- date unknown
- José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728)
- Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)[6]