1813 in music

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Events

• January 24 – Musicians found the Philharmonic Society of London (later The Royal Philharmonic Society) to give the first public orchestral concerts in London.
• March 8 - The inaugural concert of the Philharmonic Society takes place at the Argyll Rooms, off Piccadilly. Johann Peter Salomon leads the orchestra, and the pianist is Muzio Clementi.
• March 21 - Pianist Josepha Barbara Auernhammer gives her last public concert, appearing with her daughter, Marianna Auenheim.
• December 8 - Two new works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Wellington's Victory (originally written for panharmonicon) and Symphony No. 7 are premiered in a benefit concert for Austrian and Bavarian soldiers wounded at the Battle of Hanau. The orchestra, conducted by Beethoven himself, is led byhis friend, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and includes some of the finest musicians of the day, such as violinist Louis Spohr, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Antonio Salieri, Anton Romberg, and the Italian double bass virtuoso, Domenico Dragonetti,
• Louise Reichardt moves to Hamburg, where she opens the first public music school for women and conducts a women's choir.
• Franz Krommer succeeds Leopold Kozeluch as court composer to the Imperial Court of Austria.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Wellington's Victory
• Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 1 in D major, D. 82

Opera

• François-Adrien Boieldieu – Le nouveau Seigneur de village
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Fünf sind Zwei
• Giovanni Pacini – Annetta e Lucindo
• Louis Spohr – Faust
• Gioacchino Rossini – Tancredi

Births

• February 14 – Alexander Dargomyzhsky, composer (d. 1869)
• March 2 – George Alexander Macfarren, composer (d. 1887)
• May 22 – Richard Wagner, composer (d. 1883)
• June 16 – Otto Jahn, music writer (d. 1869)
• August 15 – Léon Gastinel, composer (d. 1906)
• September 2 – Gustav Hölzel, operatic bass-baritone and composer (d. 1883)
• September 3 – Mathilda Gelhaar, opera singer (d. 1889)
• October 10 – Giuseppe Verdi, composer (d. 1901)
• October 16 – Julie von Webenau, composer (d. 1887)
• November 19 – Augusta Smith, opera singer
• November 30 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, pianist and composer (d. 1888)
• December 27 – Jakob Rosenhain, pianist and composer (d. 1894)
• date unknown – Johanna von Schoultz, opera singer (d. 1863)

Deaths

• January 11 – Giuseppe Aprile, castrato singer (b. 1731)
• March 14 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, composer and cantor (b. 1743)
• May 5 – Stepan Degtiarev, composer (b. 1766)
• June 7 – Maria Hester Park, pianist, singer and composer (b. 1760)
• August 19 – Johann Carl Friedrich Rellstab, composer and music publisher (b. 1759)
• August 20 – Johann Baptist Vanhal, composer (b. 1739)
• August 26 – Daniel Gottlob Türk, composer, organist and music professor (b. 1756)
• September 24 – André Grétry, composer (b. 1741)
• October 5 – Etienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (b. 1754)
• November 2 – Johann Gottfried Vierling, organist and composer (b. 1750)
• November 29 – Jean Balthasar Tricklir, cellist and composer (b. 1750)
• December 1 – Ferdinando Bertoni, organist and composer (b. 1725)