1817 in music
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[edit] Events
- Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.
[edit] Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quintet (Opus 104)
- Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
- Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major
[edit] Opera
- Franz Danzi – Die Probe
- Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola, La Gazza Ladra, Adelaide di Borgogna
[edit] Published Popular Music
- "Oft In The Stilly Night – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore
[edit] Births
- February 22 – Niels Gade, composer (d. 1890)
- March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer (d. 1878)
- March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer (d. 1871)
- June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker (d. 1892)
- August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1886)
- November 12 – Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist (d. 1882)
- November 13 – Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
[edit] Deaths
- January 14 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (b. 1729)
- January 28 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, conductor and composer (b. 1761)
- March 1 – Luigi Gatti, composer (b. 1740)
- August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano (b. 1766)
- October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (b. 1741)
- October 18 – Etienne Méhul, composer (b. 1763)
- November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (b. 1732)
- December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (b. 1752)
- date unknown – John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)
