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1812 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1812.

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Events

  • January 8 - The première of 19-year-old Rossini's L’inganno felice takes place at Teatro San Moisè, Venice.
  • January 17 - Carl Maria von Weber leaves Leipzig for Gotha.
  • February 11 - Carl Czerny gives the first Vienna performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto.
  • February 18 - Carl Maria von Weber performs in Dresden but is not a success.
  • February 20 - Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).
  • March 8 - Composer Georg Joseph Vogler and his pupil Jacob Beer, the future Meyerbeer, leave Darmstadt for Munich.
  • May – The Royal Swedish Opera reopens after a 5-year gap.
  • May 26 - Luigi Cherubini resigns from his position at the Académie Impériale de Musique.
  • June 17 - Vogler and his pupil Beer are presented to the Queen of Bavaria at Nymphenburg.
  • July 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.
  • July 26 - Fifteen-year-old Franz Schubert makes his last appearance as a chorister at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna.
  • September 11 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel's ballet Sappho von Mitilene receives its première at Vienna.
  • October 5 - Ludwig van Beethoven comes to Linz to try to stop his brother Johann's affair with Therese Obermayer.
  • November 9 - Johann van Beethoven marries Therese Obermayer.
  • November 23 - Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, receives its première at the Hoftheater, Munich.
  • December 31 - Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
  • Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10
  • William Crotch - Palestine (oratorio)
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek - Two Duos for piano and harp
  • Giovanni Paisiello - Mass in C
  • Antonio Salieri - Kyrie in C

    • Opera

  • François-Adrien Boieldieu - Jean de Paris
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer - Jephtas Gelübde
  • Gioachino Rossini
  • Ciro in Babilonia
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • L'inganno felice
  • La scala di seta

    • Births

  • January 14 – Karl Graedener, composer (d. 1883)
  • January 21 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (d. 1894)
  • March 11 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (d. 1865)
  • April 20 – Pauline Åhman, harpist (d. 1904)
  • April 27 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (d. 1883)
  • May 14 – Emilie Mayer, composer (d. 1883)
  • June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
  • October 1 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
  • November 28 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (d. 1887)
  • December 28 – Julius Rietz, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

    • Deaths

  • February 9 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (born 1754)
  • March 20 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, pianist and composer (born 1760)
  • March 27 – Joachim Albertini, composer (born 1748)
  • May 21 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (born 1773)
  • June 15 – Anton Stadler, clarinet and basset horn player (born 1753)
  • July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer (born 1732)
  • July 24 – Joseph Schuster, composer (born 1748)
  • August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister (born 1756)
  • September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, impresario, actor, singer and librettist (born 1751)
  • December – Michel-Joseph Gebauer, instrumentalist, bandmaster and composer (born 1763)
  • December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (born 1744)
  • date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer (born 1746)

    • References

    1812 in music Wikipedia
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