1817 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1817.

Events

Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Improved form of ophicleide invented by Jean Hilaire Asté in France.

Classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven
- String Quintet, Op.104
- Fugue in D major, Op.137
- Gesang der Mönche, WoO 104
- So oder So, WoO 148
- Resignation, WoO 149
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – 30 Caprices, Op. 2
Ferdinando Carulli – 6 Duos for Guitar and Flute, Op. 109
Frederic Chopin – Two Polonaises
Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
Gaetano Donizetti
- English Horn Concertino, A 459 (premiered June 19 in Bergamo)
- Sinfonia for Winds in G minor, A 509 (composed April 19)
Friedrich Dotzauer – Pot-Pourri for Cello and Guitar, Op. 21
John Field
- Nocturne No.4 in A major, H.36
- Nocturne No.6 in F major ("Berceuse")
Georg Gerson – Symphony in E-flat major
Mauro Giuliani
- Divertimenti, Op. 78
- Preludes, Op. 83
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Adagio, Variationen und Rondo über 'Pretty Polly', Op. 75
- Variations sur un theme original, Op. 76
Anselm Hüttenbrenner – 6 Variations, Op. 2
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz – 2 Harp Duos, Op. 5
Iwan Müller – Clarinet Quartet No. 2
Niccolo Paganini – Violin Concerto No.1, Op.6
Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no. 1 in E-flat major
Franz Schubert
- Piano Sonata No.4, D.537
- Allegro and Scherzo, D.570 (July)
- String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581 (Autumn)
- Notable Lieder
  - Trost, D.523
  - Schlaflied, D.527
  - Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531
  - Ganymed, D.544
  - An die Musik, D.547
  - Die Forelle, D.550
Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.11, Op. 43
Václav Jan Tomášek – 6 Eglogues, Op. 47

Opera

Franz Danzi – Die Probe
Gioacchino Rossini
- La Cenerentola
- La Gazza Ladra
- Armida
- Adelaide di Borgogna

Publications

Francesco Galeazzi – Elementi di Musica

Published Popular Music

"Oft, in the Stilly Night" – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore

Births

February 3 – Émile Prudent, composer (died 1863)
February 22 – Niels Gade, composer (d. 1890)
March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer (d. 1878)
March 17
- Karl Schroder I, violinist (died 1890)
- Julius Stahlknecht, composer (died 1892)
March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer (d. 1871)
March 28 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes, composer (died 1880)
May 26 – Emil Erslev, composer (died 1882)
May 27 – Giuseppe Bardari, librettist (died 1861)
May 31 – Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez, composer (died 1897)
June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker (d. 1892)
August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1886)
October 5 – Eduard Franck, German composer (died 1893)
November 12
- Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist (d. 1882)
- Carlo Pedrotti, composer and conductor (died 1893)
November 13
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (d. 1869)
- Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
November 24 – Fritz Spindler, pianist (died 1905)
December 19 – Charles Dancla, composer (died 1907)

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)
June 29 – Ernst Schulze, lyricist and poet (born 1789)
August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano (b. 1766)
October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (b. 1741)
October 12 – Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (born 1750)
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)
December 3 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (born 1767)
December 11 – Max von Schenkendorf, poet and songwriter (born 1783)
date unknown –
- John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)
- Pedro Étienne Solère, composer (born 1753)