1804 in music

EventsEdit

January 1 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.<ref name=musicandhistory>MusicAndHistory.com – 1804 Template:Webarchive. Accessed 1 March 2014</ref>
January 23 – François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
February 20 – Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
April 22 – Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
May 8 – Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
May 14 – Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.<ref>George, Christopher T. (December 1998). The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?". "Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations". Napoleonic Scholarship: The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society 1 (2). Template:ISBN</ref>
September 18 – Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin.<ref name=musicandhistory/> There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.<ref name=musicandhistory/>

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major
- Piano Sonata No. 23, Op.57
- Symphony No. 2 (published; composed 1801–02)
- Triple Concerto, Op.56
- Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
Isabella Colbran – Cavatina di partenza
Jan Ladislav Dussek – Fantasia and Fugue for piano<ref name=musicandhistory/>
Anton Eberl – Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
- Variations for piano Op. 15<ref name="musicandhistory" />
- Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
- Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas
Niccolo Paganini – Divertimenti Carnevaleschi<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ferdinand Ries – Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
Gioachino Rossini – 6 Sonate a quattro
Antonio Salieri – Requiem in C minor
Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
Carl Maria von Weber
- 6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
- 6 Lieder, Op. 30
- Turandot, Op.37 (incidental music for Schiller's production)
Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in C major, Op. 41

Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72 (composed; premiered 1805)
François-Adrien Boieldieu – Aline, reine de Golconde<ref name="musicandhistory" />
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Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
Gaspare Spontini – Milton
Georg Joseph Vogler – Samori<ref name=musicandhistory/>

January 24 – Delphine de Girardin, lyricist and writer (died 1855)
January 25 – Antoni Edward Odyniec, librettist and writer (died 1885)
February 5 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, lyricist and poet (died 1877)
March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
April 15 – Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
May 13 – Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher (died 1860)
May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
June 13 – Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer (died 1878)
June 21 – Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist (died 1875)
July 14 – Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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July 17 – Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician (died 1877)
August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
September 8 – Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet (died 1875)
October 1 – Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
October 18
- Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician (died 1856)
- Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright (died 1880)
November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
July 17 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister (born 1723)
August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
date unknown
- Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
- Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
- Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
- Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
- Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer (born 1726)
- Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)<ref>http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Wood%252C%2BAbraham/all/1 Harmonia Mundi</ref>