1800 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1800.

Events

• January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), is premièred in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.^[1]
• February 22 - Lorenzo da Ponte, best known as Mozart's former librettist, goes bankrupt in London; his partner in the publishing business, Jan Ladislav Dussek, has already gone into hiding.^[1]
• March 28 - Anton Weidinger gives the first public performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major at the Vienna Burgtheater.^[1]
• April 2 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 debuts at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
• April 21 - Haydn's Creation is performed in London. In the interval, Samuel Wesley plays one of his own organ concertos.^[1]
• June 2 - The premiere of Cesare in Farmacusa, with music by Antonio Salieri and words by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, takes place at the Kärntnertortheater, Vienna.^[1]
• September 6 - During Lord Nelson's visit to Eisenstadt, his companion Emma, Lady Hamilton, performs Haydn’s Arianna a Naxos and The Battle of the Nile, with Haydn himself on piano.
• September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.
• October 8 - Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz pays Ludwig van Beethoven 200 florins for his String Quartets.^[1]
• October 14 - Nine-year-old prodigy Jakob Meyer Beer makes his début on the concert platform, playing a Mozart piano concerto; Jakob later reinvents himself as Giacomo Meyerbeer.^[1]
• December 1 - Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel establish the Bureau de Musique, a music publishing company, in Leipzig.^[1]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony No. 1
  • Piano Concerto No. 3 (composed; first performance in 1803)
  • Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. 22; Piano Sonata in A Flat Major, Op. 26
• Leopold Kozeluch - Three Grand Sonatas for piano accompanied by violin and cello^[1]
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Der Jubel oder Juchhei (liederspiel)^[1]

Opera

• Luigi Cherubini – Les deux journées
• Ferdinando Paer – La testa riscaldata, La sonnambula, Ginevra degli Almieri and Poche ma buone
• William Reeve – Paul and Virginia
• Antonio Salieri – Cesare in Farmacusa and L'Angiolina

Births

• January 1
  • Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer (died 1886)
  • Johann Kulik, luthier (died 1872)
• January 11 - Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Italian operatic soprano (died 1853)
• January 14 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, music researcher and composer (died 1877)
• August 26 - Joseph Christoph Kessler, German pianist and composer (died 1872)
• date unknown
  • Eduard Brendler, composer (died 1831)
  • Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan, French operatic soprano (died 1865)

Deaths

• January 4 - Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian castrato and singing teacher (born 1714)
• March 20 - Maria Anna Aloysia Apollonia Keller, estranged wife of Joseph Haydn (born 1729)
• April 29 – Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer (born 1733)
• May 7 – Niccolò_Piccinni, composer (born 1728)
• June 6 – Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist (born 1771)
• June 10 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, composer (born 1747)
• June 11 - Margarethe Danzi, German composer and soprano (born 1768)
• August 3 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer (born 1736)
• September 8 - Pierre Gaviniès, French violinist and composer (born 1728)
• September 26 – William Billings, America's first major composer (born 1746)
• September 27 - Hyacinthe Jadin, French composer (born 1776; tuberculosis)^[2]

References