1823 in music

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Events

• Franz Liszt leaves Vienna for Paris.
• Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
• Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La Vestale
• The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Diabelli Variations, Opus 120; Missa Solemnis Opus 123.
• Franz Krommer – Symphony No. 6 in D
• Felix Mendelssohn – Concerto for 2 pianos
• Ferdinand Ries – Cello Sonata in G minor, Opus 125
• Franz Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Alfredo il grande
• Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide
• Franz Schubert – Fierrabras
• Carl Maria von Weber – Euryanthe

Popular Music

• "Home! Sweet Home!" w. John Howard Payne m. Henry Bishop

Publications

• Emanuel Aloys Förster – Anleitung zum General-Baß

Births

• January 3 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer (d. 1881)
• January 27 – Édouard Lalo, composer (d. 1892)
• March 6 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
• August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (d. 1889)
• August 17 – Theodor Julius Jaffé, opera singer and actor (d. 1898)
• October 21 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (d. 1894)
• November 26 – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (d. 1874)
• December 1 – Ernest Reyer, opera composer and music critic (d. 1909)
• date unknown
  • John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (d. 1857)
  • Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, Kazakh folk musician and composer (d. 1896)

Deaths

• February 16 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer (b. 1753)
• March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat, singer (b. 1764)
• March 18 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
• April 15 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (b. 1772)
• June 20 – Theodor von Schacht, German composer (b. 1748)
• October 2 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer (b. 1765)
• November 12 – Emanuel Aloys Förster, composer and music teacher (b.