1812 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1812.
Events
- January 8 - The première of 19-year-old Rossini's L’inganno felice takes place at Teatro San Moisè, Venice.[1]
- January 17 - Carl Maria von Weber leaves Leipzig for Gotha.[1]
- February 11 - Carl Czerny gives the first Vienna performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto.[1]
- February 18 - Carl Maria von Weber performs in Dresden but is not a success.
- February 20 - Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).[1][2]
- March 8 - Composer Georg Joseph Vogler and his pupil Jacob Beer, the future Meyerbeer, leave Darmstadt for Munich.[1]
- May – The Royal Swedish Opera reopens after a 5-year gap.
- May 26 - Luigi Cherubini resigns from his position at the Académie Impériale de Musique.[1]
- June 17 - Vogler and his pupil Beer are presented to the Queen of Bavaria at Nymphenburg.[1]
- July 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.[1]
- July 26 - Fifteen-year-old Franz Schubert makes his last appearance as a chorister at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna.[3]
- September 11 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel's ballet Sappho von Mitilene receives its première at Vienna.[1]
- October 5 - Ludwig van Beethoven comes to Linz to try to stop his brother Johann's affair with Therese Obermayer.[1]
- November 9 - Johann van Beethoven marries Therese Obermayer.[4]
- November 23 - Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, receives its première at the Hoftheater, Munich.[1]
- December 31 - Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.[1]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
- Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
- Violin Sonata No. 10
- William Crotch - Palestine (oratorio)[1]
- Jan Ladislav Dussek - Two Duos for piano and harp[1]
- Giovanni Paisiello - Mass in C
- Antonio Salieri - Kyrie in C
Opera
- François-Adrien Boieldieu - Jean de Paris
- Giacomo Meyerbeer - Jephtas Gelübde
- Gioachino Rossini
Births
- January 14 – Karl Graedener, composer (d. 1883)
- January 21 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (d. 1894)
- March 11 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (d. 1865)
- April 20 – Pauline Åhman, harpist (d. 1904)
- April 27 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (d. 1883)
- May 14 – Emilie Mayer, composer (d. 1883)
- June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
- October 1 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
- November 28 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (d. 1887)
- December 28 – Julius Rietz, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
Deaths
- February 9 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (born 1754)
- March 20 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, pianist and composer (born 1760)
- March 27 – Joachim Albertini, composer (born 1748)
- May 21 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (born 1773)
- June 15 – Anton Stadler, clarinet and basset horn player (born 1753)
- July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer (born 1732)
- July 24 – Joseph Schuster, composer (born 1748)
- August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister (born 1756)
- September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, impresario, actor, singer and librettist (born 1751)
- December – Michel-Joseph Gebauer, instrumentalist, bandmaster and composer (born 1763)
- December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (born 1744)
- date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer (born 1746)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n MusicandHistory.com - 1812. Accessed 23 November 2013
- ^ Pamela Weston. "Heinrich Baermann." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
- ^ Duncan, Edmondstoune (1905). Schubert. J.M. Dent. ISBN 1-4437-8279-3. OCLC 2058050.
- ^ Cooper, Barry (2008). Beethoven. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 978-0-19-531331-4. p. 212