1822 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1822.

Events

March 16 â Marriage of Gioachino Rossini and Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran.
Over the middle of the year Franz Schubert begins writing his Symphony No. 8, in B minor (D 759), but leaves it unfinished.
Official date of the invention of the accordion by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.)^{[citation needed]}
The Royal Academy of Music is founded in London with William Crotch as first principal. It opens in March 1823 before the Royal charter is granted in June 1830.
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
Harpist Franz Stockhausen marries soprano Margarethe Schmuck.
Franz Liszt arrives in Vienna and commences piano lessons with Carl Czerny and theory lessons with Antonio Salieri. The latter writes a letter to Prince Esterhazy to advocate for Liszt's continued study in Vienna. On December 1, Liszt gives his first public performance in Vienna, sharing the billing with Caroline Unger. He plays Hummel's Piano Concerto No. 2.

"Araby's Daughter" (song) w. Thomas Moore m. George Kiallmark. The words are derived from Moore's "Farewell to Araby's Daughter" published in 1817.

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Sonata op. 111 in C minor
- Gratulations Menuett for Orchestra, WoO 3
- The Consecration of the House
Ferdinando Carulli â 3 Nocturnes concertants, Op. 143
Mauro Giuliani â Serenade, Op. 19
Johann Nepomuk Hummel â Birthday Cantata for Goethe
Niels Peter Jensen â Flute Sonata, Op. 6
Friedrich Kuhlau
- Violin Sonata, Op. 33
- Leichte Variationen Ã¼ber sechs Oestreichische Volkslieder, Op. 42
- 3 Sonatinas, Op. 44
Luigi Legnani â 36 Caprices, Op. 20
Franz Liszt â Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli
Ferdo LivadiÄ â Nocturne in F-sharp minor
Joseph Mayseder â String Quartet No.6, Op. 23
Felix Mendelssohn
- Concerto for Piano and Strings in A minor
- Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor
- Sinfonia for Strings No. 7 in D minor^[1]
- Sinfonia for Strings No. 8 in D Major
Brizio Petrucci â Requiem Mass
Anton Reicha â Wind Quintet, Op. 99 Nos. 2, 5
Ferdinand Ries â Variations, Op. 105 Nos. 1 and 2
Pierre Rode â 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 22
Gioachino Rossini â La santa alleanza
Franz Schubert
- Symphony no. 8
- Wanderer Fantasy
- Der Wachtelschlag, D.742
- Die Rose, D.745
- Geist der Liebe, D.747
- Am Geburtstage des Kaisers, D.748
- Heliopolis, D.753
Jan VÃ¡clav VoÅÃÅ¡ek â Impromptu

January 8 â Carlo Alfredo Piatti, cellist (d. 1901)
February 14 â Betty Boije, Finnish-Swedish contralto and composer (d. 1854)
February 26 â Franz Strauss, horn player and composer, father of Richard Strauss (d. 1905)
February 28 â Nicolas Maline, luthier (d. 1877)
April 3 â Elma StrÃ¶m, Swedish opera singer (d. 1889)
April 8 â Giuseppe Apolloni, opera composer (d. 1889)
April 25 â James Pierpont, songwriter (d. 1893)
May 27 â Joachim Raff, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1882)
July 22 â Luigi Arditi, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1903)
August 15 â Wilhelm Rust, musicologist and composer (d. 1892)
October 13 â Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1896)
October 14 â Julie Berwald, singer.
December 3 â Korla Awgust Kocor, conductor and composer (d. 1904)
December 16 â Charles Edward Horsley (d.1876)
December 22 â Charles Lebouc, cellist (d. 1893)
date unknown â Giulio Regondi, guitarist and composer (d. 1872)

January â Americo Sbigoli, operatic tenor (burst blood vessel)
February 2 â Jean-Baptiste Davaux, French violinist and composer, 79^[2]
March 2 â Hermann Uber, composer, 40^[3]
March 19 â JÃ³zef Wybicki, soldier-poet, lyricist of the Polish national anthem, 74^[4]
March 22 â Johann Wilhelm HÃ¤ssler, organist, pianist and composer, 74/5
April 3 â Ãdouard Du Puy, violinist, singer and composer, 51/2
June 25 â E. T. A. Hoffmann, composer and author, inspiration for Tales of Hoffmann, 46^[5]
August 25 â William Herschel, British astronomer and composer, 83^[6]
September 8 â Joseph Karl Ambrosch, operatic tenor and composer, 63^[7]
October 16 â Eva Marie Veigel, dancer, 98^[8]
November 18 â Anton Teyber, pianist and composer, 66^[9]
December 28 â Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter, 67^[10]