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1806 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1806.

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Events

  • Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
  • The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
  • Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
  • Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
  • The poem Twinkle Twinkle Little Star is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

    • Classical Music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony No. 4
  • Piano Concerto No. 4
  • Violin Concerto
  • 3 String Quartets, Op. 59
  • 32 Variations in C minor.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 7 Hungarian Dances; 12 Minuets

    • Opera

  • Étienne Méhul – Uthal

    • Births

  • January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854)
  • January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)
  • August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
  • September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837)
  • November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
  • December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)

    • Deaths

  • January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
  • February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
  • February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738)
  • March 23 – George Pinto, composer (b. 1785)
  • June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731)
  • August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737)
  • date unknown
  • Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1757)
  • José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728)
  • Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)

    • References

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