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1820 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1820.

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Events

  • Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.
  • The Musical Fund Society is founded at Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Its first public concert on April 22, 1821 featured Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony.

    • Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30
  • Felix Mendelssohn - Violin Sonata in F major
  • Franz Schubert – Lazarus (oratorio)
  • Franz Schubert – Quartettsatz, D. 703

    • Opera

  • Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos Felices
  • Giovanni Pacini – La schiava di Bagdad (première October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)
  • "Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
  • "D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.

    • Births

  • January 9 – Pavel Křížkovský, conductor and composer (d. 1885)
  • February 10 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (d. 1901)
  • February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer (d. 1881)
  • March 24 – Fanny Crosby, American lyricist (d. 1915)
  • May 21 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the Luxembourg national anthem (d. 1893)
  • August 13 – George Grove, music writer (d. 1900)
  • August 30 – George Frederick Root, songwriter (d. 1895)
  • September 5 – Louis Köhler, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1886)
  • October 6 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
  • December 17 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (d. 1879)
  • date unknown
  • Maria Severa Onofriana, fado singer (d. 1846)
  • Anna-Kajsa Norman, Swedish folk musician (d. 1903)

    • Deaths

  • February 2 – Peder Schall, composer (b. 1762)
  • March 26 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, French dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1748)
  • August 6 – Antonín Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer (b. 1761)
  • August 28 – Antonín Kraft, cellist and composer (b. 1749)
  • October 3 – Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer (b. 1746)
  • date unknown – Marie Bigot, piano teacher (b. 1786)
  • probable
  • Mikhail Matinsky, scientist, writer and composer (b. 1750)
  • Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, composer (b. 1749)

    • References

    1820 in music Wikipedia
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