1823 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1823.

Events

April 13 - According to his official biographer, Gustav Schilling, eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven;^[1] however, there is no record of Beethoven having attended the concert.
August 12 - Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La vestale.^[2]
Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.
Soprano Henriette Méric-Lalande catches the attention of the critic Castil-Blaze, who introduces her to the famous tenor Manuel García, thereby advancing her career.^[3]

January 3 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer (died 1881)
January 27 – Édouard Lalo, composer (died 1892)
July 22 - Paulina Rivoli, operatic soprano (died 1881)
August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (died 1889)
August 15 – Léon Gastinel, French composer (died 1906)
August 17 – Theodor Julius Jaffé, opera singer and actor (died 1898)
October 21 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (died 1894)
November 26 – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (died 1874)
December 1 – Ernest Reyer, opera composer and music critic (died 1909)
December 11 - David Bennett, Canadian soldier and musician (died 1902)
date unknown
- John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (died 1857)
- George Lichtenstein, Hungarian pianist and music teacher (died 1893)
- Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, Kazakh folk musician and composer (died 1896)

^ Schilling: Franz Liszt, p.51.
^ Hector Berlioz website. Accessed 2 October 2013
^ Le guide de l'opéra, Roland Mancini & Jean-Jacques Rouveroux, (Fayard, 1986) ISBN 2-213-01563-5