1803 in music

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Events

• 5 April - first performance of Beethoven's third piano concerto
• 26 December - Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Christus am Ölberge, oratorio
  • Piano Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' started
  • Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
  • Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
  • Violin Sonata No. 9
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Concerto for Clarinet no 3 in B flat major
• Joseph Haydn – unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
• Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 37)
• Georg von Pasterwitz - 300 Themata und Versetten, op. 4
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major; Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major

Opera

• Gaetano Andreozzi – Il trionpho di Alessandro
• Luigi Cherubini – Anacréon
• Anton Fischer – Die Entlarvten
• Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine

Births

• January 6 – Henri Herz, pianist and composer (died 1888)
• April 2-Franz Lachner, Bavarian composer/conductor (died 1890)
• June 24 – George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
• July 24 – Adolphe Adam, French composer (died 1856)
• December 11 – Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869)
• September 4 – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (died 1856)

Deaths

• January 2 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, composer (born 1733)
• January 28 – Karl von Marinelli, theatre manager (born 1745)
• February 5 – Giovanni Battista Casti, librettist (born 1724)
• February 6 – Gasparo Angiolini, dancer, choreographer and composer (born 1731)
• June 6 – Louis Gallodier, dancer and choreographer (born c.1734)
• August 29 – Giovanni de Gamerra, librettist (born 1742)
• September 5 – François Devienne, composer (born 1759)
• September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, composer (born 1766)
• September 21 – John Christopher Moller, composer and music publisher (born 1755)
• date unknown
  • Johann Becker, organist and composer (born 1726)
  • Johann Christoph Kellner, organist and composer (born 1736)