1800 in music

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Events

• January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), debuts in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.
• September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Composed; first performance 1803)

Opera

• Luigi Cherubini - Les deux journées
• William Reeve – Paul and Virginia

Births

• January 1 – Johann Kulik, luthier (d. 1872)
• January 14 – Ludwig von Köchel, music researcher and composer (d. 1877)
• March 17 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (d. 1815) (murder)
• November 4 – Eduard Brendler, composer

Deaths

• May 7 – Niccola Piccinni, composer (b. 1728)
• June 6 – Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist (b.1771)
• June 10 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, composer (b. 1747)
• August 3 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1736)
• September 26 – William Billings, America's first major composer (b. 1746)
• date unknown – Johann Christian Fischer, composer (b. 1733)