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This is a list of music-related events in 1802.
Events
[edit]- January 9 – The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.[1]
- January 20 – Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.[1]
- February 15 – Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.[1]
- March 19 – Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.[1]
- April 30 – Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.[1]
- May 5
- Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.[1]
- Composers Jan Ladislav Dussek and Louis Spohr are introduced by Herr Kiekhöver in Hamburg.
- July 20 – The chapel created by Napoleon in the Tuileries is officially opened, with Giovanni Paisiello as its musical director.[1]
- August 15 – Luigi Cherubini, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Nicolò Isouard go into business as publishers of their own music.[1]
- October 6 – Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.[1]
- Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.[2]
Publications
[edit]- Charles-Simon Catel – Traité d’harmonie (Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Frédéric Duvernoy – Méthod pour le Cor (Mme Le Roi, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Johann Nikolaus Forkel – On Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life, Art, and Work: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art[3] (Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel)
- John Gunn – An Essay Theoretical and Practical (London: Preston, for the author)
- Christian Kalkbrenner – Histoire de la Musique (Paris: Amand Kœnig)
- Heinrich Christoph Koch – Musikalisches Lexikon (Frankfurt am Main: August Hermann der Jüngere)
- Jean-Xavier Lefèvre – Méthode de clarinette (Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
- Georg Joseph Vogler – Handbuch zur Harmonielehre (Prague: K. Barth)
Classical music
[edit]- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Second Symphony[4]
- 6 Ländler, WoO 15
- Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
- "No, Non Tubarti", WoO 92a
- "Ne' giorni tuoi felici", WoO 93
- "Graf, Graf, Liebster Graf" WoO 101
- 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
- 6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34
- Eroica Variations, Op. 35
- Matthieu Frédéric Blasius – Clarinet Concerto No. 1
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Wind Quintet Nos.1–3
- Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 40
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Duo in F major, Op. 26
- Piano Sonata No.17, Op. 43
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 19–21, Op. 45
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 22–23, Op. 47
- Emanuel Aloys Förster – 3 String Quartets, Op. 21
- Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work [5]
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)[6]
- Franz Krommer
- Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
- Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35[7]
- Ignaz Pleyel – Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)[1]
- Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
- Anton Ferdinand Titz – 3 String Quartets
- Samuel Wesley – Symphony in B-flat[1]
- Carl Friedrich Zelter – Sammlung kleiner Balladen und Lieder, Z.123
Opera
[edit]- Charles-Simon Catel – Sémiramis
- Michael Kelly – Urania[8]
- Giovanni Simone Mayr – I misteri eleusini (premiered Jan. 6 in Milan)
- Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Le trésor supposé
- William Reeve – Family Quarrels (comic opera)
- Carl Maria Von Weber – Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn
Births
[edit]- February 7 – Johann Nepomuk Vogl, lyricist (died 1866)
- February 20 – Charles-Auguste de Bériot, composer and violinist (died 1870)
- February 25 – Georg Scheurlin, music publisher (died 1872)
- February 26 – Victor Hugo, librettist and poet (died 1885)
- March 3 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
- March 5 – James Turle, editor and organist (died 1882)
- May 31
- Eduard Grund, composer (died 1871)
- Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (died 1870)
- July 3 – Joseph Labitzky, composer and conductor (died 1881)
- July 12 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer[9] (died 1852)
- July 15 – John Barnett, English composer (died 1890)
- July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, librettist and writer (died 1870)
- July 27 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
- August 13 – Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (died 1850)
- August 23 – Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
- August 28 – Karl Joseph Simrock, librettist and poet (died 1876)
- September 18 – Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, composer (died 1874)
- September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, dedicatee and politician (died 1894)
- September 24 – Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, librettist and Lord Chief Justice (died 1880)
- October 7 – Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
- October 10 – George Pope Morris, librettist and publisher (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy, pianist and composer (died c. 1880)
- Ureli Corelli Hill, conductor (died 1875)
- George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
- Marion Dix Sullivan, American composer (died 1860)
- José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)
Deaths
[edit]- January 27 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, conductor and composer, 42
- March 7 – Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, 51
- April 10 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano, 67
- April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, lyricist and physician (born 1731)
- July 26 – Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter and musician, 41 (yellow fever)[10]
- July 28 – Giuseppe Sarti, composer, 72
- August 10 – Antonio Lolli, violinist and composer (born c. 1725)
- August 23 – Corona Schröter, singer, 51
- September 28 – Heinrich Harries, lyricist and pastor (born 1762)
- October 2 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher, 65
- October 22 – Samuel Arnold, composer and organist, 62
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k MusicandHistory.com 1802 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 28 February 2014
- ^ Randel, Don Michael (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. United States: President and Fellows of Harvard College. p. 569. ISBN 0-674-37299-9.
- ^ Geck, Martin. "Johann Sebastian Bach: Life and Work". Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Retrieved 22 February 2012.
- ^ "Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 21". NPR. 2006-06-06. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ^ Haydn, Franz Joseph (1802), Harmoniemesse in B-Flat Major, Kalmus Edition, ISBN 9780769244761
- ^ "Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello & double bass in E flat major/minor, Op. 87". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ^ "Concerto for 2 clarinets & orchestra in E flat major, Op. 35". AllMusic.com. Retrieved 2013-02-20.
- ^ "Dramatist Record". godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
- ^ Charles Louis Hanssens, Requiem Survey.
- ^ Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, Les Artistes français du xviiie siècle oubliés ou dédaignés, Paris, Vve Jules Renouard, 1865, p. 75