1801 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 12 – Domenico Cimarosa is buried at Chiesa di Sant’Angelo, Venice, with a requiem mass performed by local musicians.[1]
  • March 28 – Ludwig van Beethoven's ballet The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus) premières in Vienna's Burgtheater.
  • April 12 – Théâtre Feydeau in Paris closes down as a result of its director's other commitments.[1]
  • April 21 – The Teatro Nuovo in Trieste is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Simon Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia.
  • April 24 – Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Seasons is premièred as Die Jahreszeiten in Vienna for its aristocratic patrons at the Palais Schwarzenberg; it has its public première on May 19 at the Redoutensaal.[2]
  • December 27 – Nineteen-year-old Niccolò Paganini becomes first violin of Lucca's national orchestra.[1]
  • Publication of Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte by Muzio Clementi in London.
  • Probable publication of A Favorite Collection of Tunes with Variations Adapted for the Northumberland Small Pipes, Violin, or Flute by William Wright in Newcastle upon Tyne with contributions by John Peacock (piper).
  • "'Twas in the Solemn Midnight Hour", composed and sung by Mrs Bland[3]

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 23
    • Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24
    • Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 26
    • Piano Sonata No. 13 & No. 14 (Moonlight), Op. 27
    • Piano Sonata No. 15, Op. 28
    • String Quintet, Op. 29
    • The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
  • Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Sonatas, Op. 25
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek
    • Two Piano Sonatas C.184-5[1]
    • Piano Concerto, Op. 49
  • John Field – Three Piano Sonatas Op. 1[1]
  • Franz Joseph Haydn
    • Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:13
    • The Spirit's Song, Hob.XXVIa:41
    • The Seasons
  • Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 19
  • John Marsh – Symphony no. 30 in E minor[4]
  • Pavel Vranický – Ballet Das Urteil des Paris[5]
  • Johann Baptist Wanhal – Clarinet Sonata in C major
  • Joseph Woelfl – Duet for Cello and Piano, Op. 31
  • Anton Wranitzky – 3 String Quintets, Op. 8
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter – 12 Lieder am Clavier zu singen, Z.122

Opera

  • Domenico Cimarosa – Artemisia
  • Simon Mayr – Ginevra di Scozia[1]
  • Étienne Méhul – L'irato
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer – Astyanax
  • Marcos Portugal – La morte di Semiramide
  • Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg – Das Pfauenfest

Methods and theory writings

  • Johann Georg Heinrich Backofen – Anleitung zum Harfenspiel
  • André Ernest Modeste Grétry – Méthode simple pour apprendre à préluder (Paris: l'imprimerie de la République)
  • Johann Christian Kittel – Der angehende praktische Organist (Erfurt: Beyer und Maring)
  • Giovanni Punto – Étude ou Exercice Journalier (Offenbach: Johann André)
  • Karl Zelter – Karl Friedrich Christian Fasch (Berlin: Johann Friedrich Unger)

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

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 MusicAndHistory.com – 1801 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 17 March 2014
  2. ↑ Clark, Caryl (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press.
  3. ↑ The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. Accessed 13 Dec 2014
  4. ↑ Marsh, John; Graham-Jones, Ian (2001). Symphonies. Part 2, The Chichester symphonies and finales (1788–1801). Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions. pp. ix. ISBN 0-89579-487-X. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  5. ↑ "List of Wranitzky's Works". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
  6. ↑ "Altenburg Johann Ernst". Editions Bim. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
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