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1804 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1804.

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Events

  • January 1 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.
  • January 23 - François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
  • February 20 - Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.
  • April 22 - Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.
  • May 8 - Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.
  • May 14 - Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently-completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.
  • September 18 - Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin. There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
  • Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written
  • Opus 85 Christus am Ölberge (completed)
  • Symphony No. 2 (published)
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek - Fantasia and Fugue for piano
  • Anton Eberl - Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Variations for piano op.15
  • Leopold Kozeluch - Three Piano Sonatas
  • Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D minor, Op. 2

    • Opera

  • François-Adrien Boieldieu - Aline, reine de Golconde
  • Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
  • Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
  • Gaspare Spontini – Milton
  • Georg Joseph Vogler - Samori

    • Births

  • March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
  • March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
  • May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
  • June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
  • July 14 - Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)
  • August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
  • October 1 - Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
  • November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
  • date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

    • Deaths

  • March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
  • June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
  • August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
  • November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
  • November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
  • date unknown
  • Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
  • Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
  • Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
  • Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
  • Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)

    • References

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