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Overview of the events of 1812 in music
Overview of the events of 1812 in music
This is a list of music-related events in
1812 .
Events
January 17 –
Carl Maria von Weber leaves Leipzig for Gotha.
[1]
February 11 –
Carl Czerny gives the first Vienna performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto.
[1]
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 ).
[1]
[2]
March 8 – Composer
Georg Joseph Vogler and his pupil Jacob Beer, the future Meyerbeer, leave Darmstadt for Munich.
[1]
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 .
[1]
June 17 – Vogler and his pupil Beer are presented to the
Queen of Bavaria at Nymphenburg.
[1]
July 2 – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron
Prince Kinsky , seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.
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July 26 – Fifteen-year-old
Franz Schubert makes his last appearance as a chorister at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna.
[3]
September 11 –
Johann Nepomuk Hummel 's ballet Sappho von Mitilene receives its première at Vienna.
[1]
October 5 – Ludwig van Beethoven comes to Linz to try to stop his brother Johann's affair with Therese Obermayer.
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November 9 – Johann van Beethoven marries Therese Obermayer.
[4]
December 31 – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.
[1]
Date unknown – Irish composer
John Field invents the
Nocturne , redefining the form as a short, flowing piano composition written most often in compound duple meter. He writes his first three, out of eighteen, during this year.
[5]
A performance of
George Frideric Handel 's oratorio
Alexander's Feast (Timotheus ) is given in the
Spanish Riding School of the
Hofburg in Vienna, leading to the founding of the
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde by
Joseph Sonnleithner .
Classical music
Ludwig van Beethoven
William Crotch – Palestine (oratorio)
[1]
Jan Ladislav Dussek – Two Duos for piano and harp
[1]
Mauro Giuliani
Studio per la Chitarra, Op. 1
Rondoletto, Op. 4
Grand Potpourri No.3, Op. 31
24 Etudes, Op. 48
Grand Potpourri for Flute and Guitar, Op. 53
Karol Kurpinski – Bitwa pod Możajskiem, Op. 15
Giovanni Paisiello – Mass in C
Ferdinand Ries
Piano Concerto No.3, Op. 55
3 Airs russes variés, Op. 72
Antonio Salieri – Kyrie in C
James Sanderson – "
Hail to the Chief "
Franz Schubert
Overture in D major, D.12
Fugue in D minor, D.13
Der Geistertanz, D.15a
String Quartet No.1, D.18
Overture in D major, D.26
Piano Trio in B-flat major, D.28
Andante in C major, D. 29
Der Jüngling am Bache, D.30
String Quartet No. 2 in C major, D. 32
Serbate, o Dei custodi, D.35
String Quartet No.3, D.36
Die Advokaten, D.37
Klaglied
Carl Maria von Weber
6 Favorit-Walzer der Kaiserin von Frankreich Marie Louise, J.143–148
Piano Sonata No.1 in C major, Op. 24
Opera
Births
January 8 –
Vasily Botkin , translator and critic (died 1869)
January 14 –
Karl Graedener , composer (d. 1883)
January 21 –
Eduard Tauwitz , composer (d. 1894)
February 6 –
Berthold Damcke , German composer (died 1875)
[6]
February 7 –
Charles Dickens , writer and lyricist (died 1870)
February 19 –
Zygmunt Krasiński , lyricist and bard (died 1859)
March 3 –
Alexandre Dubuque , Russian composer (died 1898)
March 11 –
William Vincent Wallace , composer (d. 1865)
April 20 –
Pauline Åhman , harpist (d. 1904)
April 27 –
Friedrich von Flotow , composer (d.
1883 )
[7]
May 4 –
Amalia Redec , pianist and composer (d. 1885)
May 7 –
Robert Browning , lyricist and poet (died 1889)
May 12 –
Edward Lear , lyricist ("
The Owl and the Pussycat ") and artist (died 1888)
May 14 –
Emilie Mayer , composer (d. 1883)
June 27 –
John Pyke Hullah , composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
July 28 –
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski , lyricist and poet (died 1887)
August 12 –
John Oxenford , librettist and dramatist (died 1877)
October 1 –
Johann Rufinatscha , composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
November 1 –
Hermann von Gilm , lyricist and poet (died 1864)
November 14 –
Aleardo Aleardi , librettist and poet (died 1878)
November 28 –
Ludvig Mathias Lindeman , composer (d. 1887)
December 6 –
Gustave Vaëz , librettist and composer (died 1862)
December 28 –
Julius Rietz , German cellist, conductor and composer (died
1877 )
[8]
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 , German 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
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