1820 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1820.
Events
- Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.
- The Musical Fund Society is founded at Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Its first public concert on April 22, 1821, featured Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.
- Franz Liszt plays in public for the first time in Ãdenburg.
Popular music
- "Hail to the Chief" â words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
- "London Cheats" aka "There Never Were Such Times" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in The Yellow Drawf or Harlequin Knight of the Golden Moon"[1]
- "D'ye Ken John Peel" â words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven â Piano Sonata No. 30
- Franz Berwald â Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 2
- Fanny Hensel â "Annette", H-U 14
- Friedrich Kuhlau
- 3 Sonatinas, Op.20
- Fantasy and Variations, Op.25
- Felix Mendelssohn
- "Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus" MWV K 2
- Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q 7
- Recitativo in E minor, MWV U 11
- Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 12
- Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 18
- Ignaz Moscheles â Piano Concerto No.3, Op.58
- Ferdinand Ries â Sextet, Op.100 (On "The Last Rose of Summer")
- Friedrich Schneider â Das Weltgericht, Op.46
- Franz Schubert
- Lazarus, oratorio
- Quartettsatz, D. 703
- Psalm 23, D.706
- Louis Spohr
- Grand Rondo in G major for violin and piano, Op. 51
- Potpourri on Irish Themes in A major, Op. 59
- Potpourri on Themes from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for violin and piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
- Quintet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 52
- Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 49
- Violin Concerto No. 9 in D minor, Op. 55
Opera
- Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga â Los Esclavos Felices (premiere in Bilbao)
- Michele Carafa â I due Figaro (premiere June 6 at La Scala, Milan)
- Friedrich Kuhlau â Elisa, eller Venskab og Kjærlighed, Op.29 (premiered April 17 in Copenhagen)
- Giovanni Pacini â La schiava in Bagdad (premiere October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)
- Gioacchino Rossini â Maometto II (premiered December 3 at Real Teatro di San Carlo, Naples)
- Franz Schubert â Sakuntala, D. 701 (started, never finished)
Births
- January 9 â Pavel KÅÞkovský, conductor and composer (d. 1885)
- February 10 â Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (d. 1901)
- February 17 â Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer (d. 1881)[2]
- March 7 â Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, German composer and voice teacher (d. 1900)[3]
- March 24 â Fanny Crosby, American lyricist (d. 1915)
- May 21 â Michel Lentz, lyricist of the Luxembourg national anthem (d. 1893)
- June 22 â Franz Kroll, pianist (died 1877)
- July 7 â George Cooper, organist (died 1876)
- July 20 â Enrico Crivelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1870)
- July 26 â Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (d. 1846)[4]
- August 13 â George Grove, music writer (d. 1900)
- August 30 â George Frederick Root, songwriter (d. 1895)
- September 5 â Louis Köhler, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1886)
- October 6 â Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)[5]
- December 17 â Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (d. 1879)
- date unknown
- Maria Severa Onofriana, fado singer (d. 1846)
- Anna-Kajsa Norman, Swedish folk musician (d. 1903)
Deaths
- February 2 â Peder Schall, composer (b. 1762)
- March 26 â Jean-Ãtienne Despréaux, French dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1748)
- August 6 â AntonÃn Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer (b. 1761)[6]
- August 28 â AntonÃn Kraft, cellist and composer (b. 1749)
- October 3 â Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer (b. 1746)
- date unknown â Marie Bigot, piano teacher (b. 1786)
- probable
- Mikhail Matinsky, scientist, writer and composer (b. 1750)
- Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, composer (b. 1749)