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1801 in music
Overview of the events of 1801 in music
Events
Published popular music
- "'Twas in the Solemn Midnight Hour", composed and sung by Mrs Bland[3]
Classical music
Opera
Methods and theory writings
Births
- January 11 – John Lodge Ellerton, composer (died 1873)
- January 29 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, composer (died 1857)
- February 1 – Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, Swedish Composer (died 1878)
- February 21 – Jan Kalivoda, composer
- February 22 – William Barnes, lyricist and writer (died 1886)
- March 11 – Frédéric Bérat, composer and songwriter (died 1855)
- March 19 – Salvatore Cammarano, Italian librettist (died 1852)
- March 26 – Sophie Daguin, ballerina and choreographer (died 1881)
- April 12 – Joseph Lanner, composer (died 1843)
- June 20 – Gustavo Carulli, composer (died 1876)
- June 25 – Antonio D'Antoni, composer and conductor (died 1859)
- August 1 – Karl Johann Philipp Spitta, librettist and poet (died 1859)
- September 13 – Stefan Witwicki, lyricist and poet (died 1847)
- October 17 – Alessandro Curmi, pianist and composer (died 1857)
- October 23 – Albert Lortzing, composer (died 1851)
- November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer (died 1835)
- November 27 – Aleksandr Varlamov, Russian composer (died 1848)
Deaths
- January 11 – Domenico Cimarosa, composer, 51 (probable stomach cancer)[1]
- March 2 – Charles-Albert Demoustier, lyricist and writer (born 1760)
- March 14 – Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, 63
- March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, composer, 59
- March 25 – Friedrich von Hardenberg, librettist and poet (born 1772)
- May 13 – Bartholomeus Ruloffs, Dutch conductor and composer, 59
- May 14 – Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, organist and trumpeter, 66[6]
- August 31 – Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist, 88
- October 23 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, conductor and composer, 60
- November – Thomas Augustine Geary, Irish composer (born 1773)
- November 9 – Carl Stamitz, composer, 56
- December 10 – Jonathan Battishill, composer of church music, 63
References
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