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1817 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1817.

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Events

  • Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quintet (Opus 104)
  • Frederic Chopin - Two Polonaises
  • Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
  • Georg Gerson - Symphony in E-flat major
  • Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major
  • Franz Schubert - String Trio in B flat major, D. 581

    • Opera

  • Franz Danzi – Die Probe
  • Gioacchino Rossini – La Cenerentola, La Gazza Ladra, Armida, Adelaide di Borgogna
  • "Oft, in the Stilly Night" – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore

    • Births

  • February 22 – Niels Gade, composer (d. 1890)
  • March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer (d. 1878)
  • March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer (d. 1871)
  • June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker (d. 1892)
  • August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1886)
  • November 12 – Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist (d. 1882)
  • November 13 – Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)

    • Deaths

  • January 14 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (b. 1729)
  • January 28 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, conductor and composer (b. 1761)
  • March 1 – Luigi Gatti, composer (b. 1740)
  • August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano (b. 1766)
  • October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (b. 1741)
  • October 18 – Etienne Méhul, composer (b. 1763)
  • November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (b. 1732)
  • December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (b. 1752)
  • date unknown – John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)

    • References

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