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1803 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1803.

Contents

Events

  • 5 April – first performance of Beethoven's third piano concerto
  • 26 December – Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ

    • Classical Music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Christus am Ölberge, oratorio
  • Piano Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' started
  • Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
  • Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
  • Violin Sonata No. 9
  • Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Concerto for Clarinet no 3 in B flat major
  • Anton Eberl - Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 33
  • Joseph Haydn – unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
  • Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 37)
  • Georg von Pasterwitz – 300 Themata und Versetten, op. 4
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti – Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major; Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major

    • Opera

  • Gaetano Andreozzi – Il trionpho di Alessandro
  • Luigi Cherubini – Anacréon
  • Anton Fischer – Die Entlarvten
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine

    • Births

  • January 6 – Henri Herz, pianist and composer (died 1888)
  • April 2 - Franz Lachner, Bavarian composer/conductor (died 1890)
  • June 24 – George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
  • July 24 – Adolphe Adam, French composer (died 1856)
  • September 4 – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (died 1856)
  • December 11 – Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869)

    • Deaths

  • January 2 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, composer (born 1733)
  • January 28 – Karl von Marinelli, theatre manager (born 1745)
  • February 5 – Giovanni Battista Casti, librettist (born 1724)
  • February 6 – Gasparo Angiolini, dancer, choreographer and composer (born 1731)
  • June 6 – Louis Gallodier, dancer and choreographer (born c.1734)
  • August 29 – Giovanni de Gamerra, librettist (born 1742)
  • September 5 – François Devienne, composer (born 1759)
  • September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, composer (born 1766)
  • September 21 – John Christopher Moller, composer and music publisher (born 1755)
  • date unknown
  • Johann Becker, organist and composer (born 1726)
  • Johann Christoph Kellner, organist and composer (born 1736)

    • References

    1803 in music Wikipedia
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