1819 In Music

This is a list of music-related events in 1819.

Events

*February 23 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel is appointed Kapellmeister to the Weimar court, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
* Breitkopf & Härtel publishes piano music by Maria Szymanowska.
*Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.
*Franz Liszt plays for Carl Czerny for the first time. The latter is impressed and agrees to take him on as a pupil.

Classical music

*Hector Berlioz – La Dépit de la bergère, H 7
*João Domingos Bomtempo – Requiem in C Minor
*Muzio Clementi – The publication of ''Gradus ad Parnassum'' Volume II is entered at Stationer's Hall, London on April 16.
* Louis-Francois Dauprat – 3 Mélodies, Op. 25
* Friedrich Ernst Fesca – String Quartet, Op. 12
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel
**Piano Sonata No.5, Op. 81
**Piano Trio in E major, Op. 83
*Friedrich Kuhlau – 8 Variations on a Danish Song, Op. 16
*Ignaz Moscheles – Grande Sonate, Op. 47
*George Onslow – Violin Sonata No.4, Op. 15
*Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major
*Andreas Romberg – Sinfonia alla turca, Op. 51
*Franz Schubert – Trout Quintet
*Maria Szymanowska
**Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
**Grande valse
**6 Minuets
**Polonaise sur l'air national favori du feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
*Carl Maria von Weber
**Rondo brillante, Op. 62
**Polacca brillante, Op. 72

Opera

*Saverio Mercadante – ''L'Apoteosi d'Ercole''
*Giovanni Pacini
**''Il falegname di Livonia''
**''La sposa fedele''
*Andreas Romberg – ''Die Großmut des Scipio''
*Gioachino Rossini
**''Bianca e Falliero''
**''La donna del lago''
**''Eduardo e Cristina''
**''Ermione''

Births

*January 12 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (d. 1883)
*January 18 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman, opera singer (d. 1879)
*February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (d. 1890)
*February 24 – Emilia Uggla, pianist (d. 1855)
* 13 March – Henriette Wienecke, composer (d. 1907)
*April 4 – Lucile Grahn, ballerina (d. 1907)
*April 7 – Hubert Léonard, composer and musician (died 1890)
*April 11 – Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
*April 18 – Franz von Suppé, composer (d. 1895)
*May 3 – Nicola De Giosa, Italian composer (died 1885)
*May 5
** Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (d. 1881)
** Stanisław Moniuszko, composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1872)
*May 13 – Henry Farmer, British composer (died 1891)
*June 12 – Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1911)
* June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)
*July 3 – Théodore Gouvy, composer (d. 1898)
*July 26 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (d. 1887)
*September 13 – Clara Schumann, pianist, composer (d. 1896)
*September 15 – Jules Étienne Pasdeloup, composer and conductor (died 1887)
*October 20 – Carl Mikuli, pianist, conductor, composer (d. 1897)
*October 23 – Isaac Baker Woodbury, music collector and composer (died 1858)
*''date unknown'' – Ebba d'Aubert, Swedish pianist (d. 1860)

Deaths

*March 9 – János Fusz, composer (b. 1777)
*April 29 – Louis-Augustin Richer, classical singer, singing master and composer (b. 1740)
*May 16 – Micaela Villegas, Peruvian entertainer (b. 1748)
* June 20 – Maria Anna Braunhofer, operatic soprano (b. 1748)
*June 21 – Georg Druschetzky, composer (b. 1745)
*June 30 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians (b. 1746)
*September 7 – Jean-Louis Duport, cellist (b. 1749)
*December 29 – Josepha Weber, operatic soprano (b. 1758)
*''date unknown'' – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer (b. 1744)

References

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