1824 in music

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Events

• May 7 – First performance of Beethoven 9th Symphony.
• June 21 – Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi is among the audience.

Popular Music

• Robert Stephen Hawker – "The Song of the Western Men"

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis
• Hector Berlioz – Messe solennelle
• Fanny Hensel – Sonata for Piano in C minor
• Franz Schubert – Octet; String Quartets in A minor and D minor (Death and the Maiden Quartet)

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
• Friedrich Kuhlau – Lulu
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto
• Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret (The mountain adventure)

Births

• January 22 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer, music teacher and critic (d. 1865)
• March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (d. 1884)
• March 7 – Robert Ambrose, organist and composer (d. 1908)
• April 22 – Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher (d. 1881)
• June 13 – Julius Eichberg, composer (d. 1893)
• June 23 – Carl Reinecke, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
• August 1 – John P. Ordway, doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician (d. 1880)
• September 4 – Anton Bruckner, composer (d. 1896)
• September 8 – Jaime Nunó, composer of the Mexican national anthem (d. 1908)
• November 25 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (d. 1893)
• date unknown
  • François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (d. 1865)
  • Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer (d. 1884)
  • Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (d. 1892)

Deaths

• January 7 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (born 1747)
• February 1 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (born 1759)
• March 3 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer (born 1755)
• April 18 – Edward Jones, royal harpist (born 1752)
• June 21 – Étienne Aignan, opera librettist (born 1773)
• September 16 – Giacomo Tritto, opera composer (born 1733)
• date unknown
  • Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, harpsichordist (born 1744)
  • Nicolas Lupot, luthier (born 1758)
  • Alexander Uber, cellist and composer (born 1783)
• probable – János Bihari, violinist (born 1764)