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1816 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1816.

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Events

  • January 9 - Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
  • January 12 - The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.
  • February 12 - The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV.
  • February 20 - Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
  • March 21 - Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.
  • April 9 - Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.
  • April 17 - Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.
  • April 29 - Luigi Cherubini's cantata Inno alla primavera, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.
  • June 16 - In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II.
  • July 13 - Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.
  • October 2 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.
  • October 18 - Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.
  • November 19 - Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.
  • November 25 - Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 28
  • Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in C-minor
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer - Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)
  • Franz Schubert
  • Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen
  • Stabat Mater in F minor
  • String Trio in B flat major

    • Opera

  • Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
  • Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
  • Ferdinand Hérold & François Adrien Boieldieu – Charles de France
  • Étienne Méhul - La journée aux aventures
  • Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Otello
  • Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo
  • Louis Spohr - Faust

    • Births

  • February 26 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher (d. 1897)
  • March 19 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
  • April 13 – William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
  • April 26 – Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
  • August 17 – Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
  • September 4 – François Bazin, opera composer (d. 1878)
  • November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian (d. 1876)
  • November 24 – Matteo Salvi, composer (d. 1887)
  • December 8 – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
  • date unknown – Edward Edwards, musician and composer (d. 1897)

    • Deaths

  • February 10 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (born 1741)
  • February 19 - Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (born 1763)
  • March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (born 1741)
  • March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (born 1724)
  • May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
  • May 25 – Samuel Webbe, composer (born 1740)
  • June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (born 1740)
  • July 31 – Josef Fiala, musician and composer (born 1748)
  • December 15 - Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowicz, patron of Beethoven (born 1772)
  • date unknown - João José Baldi, pianist and composer (born 1770)

    • References

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