1816 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1816.
Events
- January 9 â Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.[1]
- January 12 â The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.[1]
- February 12 â The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV.[2]
- February 20 â Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia Lâinutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.[3]
- March 21 â Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.[1]
- April 9 â Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.[1]
- April 17 â Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.[1]
- April 29 â Luigi Cherubini's cantata Inno alla primavera, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.[1]
- June 16 â In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II.[1]
- July 13 â Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.[1]
- October 2 â Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.[1]
- October 18 â Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.[1]
- November 19 â Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.[1]
- November 25 â Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.[1]
Popular music
- "The Clown's Bazaar" aka "Grimaldi's Bazaar" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in Gnomes and Fairies or Harlequin Hurry Skurry[4]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
- Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99
- Piano Sonata No. 28
- Sehnsucht, WoO 146
- Luigi Cherubini â Requiem in C minor
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Septet No.1, Op. 74
- Conradin Kreutzer â String Quintet, Op. 62
- Franz Krommer â 3 String Quartets, Op. 92
- Joseph Mayseder â Polonaise No.3, Op. 12
- Giacomo Meyerbeer â Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)[1]
- Ignaz Moscheles â Grande sonate, Op. 41
- George Onslow â 3 String Quartets, Op. 9
- Franz Schubert
- Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D. 343
- Stabat Mater in F minor
- Overture in B-flat major, D.470
- String Trio in B-flat major, D 471
- Lieder: Stimme der Liebe, D.412; 3 Gesänge des Harfners, Op. 12, D.478; Der Wanderer, D.489; Loda's Gespenst, D.150; Die Erwartung, D.159
- Jan Václav VoÅÃÅ¡ek â 6 Impromptus, Op. 7
- Carl Maria von Weber â Divertimento assai facile, Op. 38
Opera
- François Adrien Boieldieu
- La fête du village voisin
- Charles de France (with Ferdinand Hérold)
- Michele Carafa â Gabriella di Vergy
- Gaetano Donizetti â Il Pigmalione
- Ãtienne Méhul â La journée aux aventures
- Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert â Die Bürgschaft, D.435 (unfinished)
- Carlo Soliva â La Testa di Bronzo
- Louis Spohr â Faust[1]
Births
- February 26 â Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher (d. 1897)
- March 19 â Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
- April 13 â William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
- April 26 â Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
- July 16 â Antoine François Marmontel, French pianist (died 1898)
- August 17 â Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- September 4 â François Bazin, opera composer (d. 1878)
- November 17 â August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian (d. 1876)
- November 24 â Matteo Salvi, composer (d. 1887)
- December 8 â Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
- date unknown â Edward Edwards, musician and composer (d. 1897)
Deaths
- February 10 â Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (born 1741)
- February 19 â Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (born 1763)
- March 16 â Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (born 1740)
- March 23 â Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (born 1724)
- May 4 â Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
- May 25 â Samuel Webbe, composer (born 1740)
- June 5 â Giovanni Paisiello, composer (born 1740)
- July 31 â Josef Fiala, musician and composer (born 1748)
- December 15 â Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, patron of Beethoven (born 1772)
- date unknown â João José Baldi, pianist and composer (born 1770)