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1802 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1802.

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Events

  • January 9 - The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.
  • January 20 - Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.
  • February 15 - Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.
  • March 19 - Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.
  • April 30 - Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.
  • May 5
  • Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.
  • Composers Jan Ladislav Dussek and Louis Spohr are introduced by Herr Kiekhöver in Hamburg.
  • July 20 - The chapel created by Napoleon in the Tuileries is officially opened, with Giovanni Paisiello as its musical director.
  • August 15 - Luigi Cherubini, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Nicolò Isouard go into business as publishers of their own music.
  • October 6 - Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.
  • Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.

    • Publications

  • Johann Nikolaus Forkel - Life of Johann Sebastian Bach

    • Classical music

  • Beethoven – Second Symphony
  • Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)
  • Franz Krommer – Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E flat major, Op. 35
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)
  • Samuel Wesley - Symphony in B flat

    • Opera

  • Michael Kelly – Urania
  • William Reeve – Family Quarrels (comic opera)
  • Carl Maria Von Weber - Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn

    • Births

  • March 3 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
  • July 12 – Charles-Louis Hanssens, composer (died 1852)
  • July 27 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
  • August 23 - Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
  • October 7 – Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
  • date unknown
  • George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
  • José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)

    • Deaths

  • January 27 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, conductor and composer, 42
  • April 10 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano, 66
  • July 26 - Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter and musician, 41 (yellow fever)
  • July 28 – Giuseppe Sarti, composer, 72
  • August 10 – Antonio Lolli, violinist and composer (born c. 1725)
  • August 23 – Corona Schröter, singer, 51
  • October 2 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher, 65
  • October 22 – Samuel Arnold, composer and organist, 62

    • References

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