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.[ 1] 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.[ 1] 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. 15Giovanni Paisiello – Mass in CFerdinand Ries
Piano Concerto No.3, Op. 55
3 Airs russes variés, Op. 72 Antonio Salieri – Kyrie in CJames 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. 32Serbate, 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 5 – Franz Schneider , composer and organist (born 1737)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
References
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^ "John Field" . Classical-Music.com . Retrieved 2017-06-01 .^ Wilibald Gurlitt (editor): Damcke, Berthold. In Riemann Musiklexikon Personenteil A–K. B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 362.^ The New Kobbé's Opera Book . Ebury Press. 1997. p. 231. ISBN 9780091814106 ^ Gilman, D. C. ; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Rietz, Julius" New International Encyclopedia