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. 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. March 28 – Anton Weidinger gives the first public performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major at the Vienna Burgtheater. 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. 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. 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. 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. December 1 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel establish the Bureau de Musique, a music publishing company, in Leipzig. == 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 François Adrien Boieldieu – Harp concerto in C Major Bartolomeo Campagnoli – 6 Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 10 Adelaide Suzanne Camille Delaval – Prelude, Divertimento and Waltz, Op. 3 Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonata No.18, Op. 44 Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari – 3 Trio Sonatas, Op. 25 Adalbert Gyrowetz – Divertissement, Op. 50 Louis-Emmanuel Jadin – 3 String Quartets, Livre 1 Leopold Kozeluch – Three Grand Sonatas for piano accompanied by violin and cello Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 18 Wenzel Thomas Matiegka – Fantaisie in C major, Op. 4 Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Der Jubel oder Juchhei (liederspiel) Carl Maria von Weber – 6 Variations sur un thème original, Op. 2 1832 == Opera == François Adrien Boieldieu – Le Calife de Bagdad 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 Carl Maria von Weber – Das stumme Waldmädchen == Methods and theory writings == Anton Bemetzrieder – A Complete Treatise on Music (London: Thomas Rickaby) Johann Dalberg – Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der Harmonie (Erfurt: Beyer und Maring) Gottlieb Graupner – A New Preceptor for the German Flute (Boston: G. Graupner) P. Hoey – A Plain and Concise Method of Learning the Gregorian Note (Dublin: P. Wogan) Samuel Holyoke – The Instrumental Assistant (Exeter, NH: H. Ranlet) William Shield – An Introduction to Harmony (London: printed for the Author, sold by G. G. & J. Robinson) Georg Joseph Vogler Choral-System (Kopenhagen: Haly'schen Musikhandlung) Musik-skole (Kiøbenhavn: Niels Christensen) == 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) March 5 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, librettist and philosopher (died 1875) May 5 – Raymond Brucker, librettist and writer (died 1875) June 24 – Antonio James Oury (Anna Caroline Oury), composer and pianist (died 1880) July 30 – Alexander Veltman, lyricist and writer (died 1870) July 31 – Michel Masson, lyricist and writer (died 1883) August 26 – Joseph Christoph Kessler, German pianist and composer (died 1872) October 12 – Francesco Florimo, composer and music historian (died 1888) November 6 – Eduard Grell, composer and conductor (died 1886) December 1 – Mihály Vörösmarty, lyricist and poet (died 1855) December 4 – Emil Aarestrup, lyricist and poet (died 1856) date unknown Eduard Brendler, composer (died 1831) Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan, French operatic soprano (died 1865) Pavel Mochalov, lyricist and actor (died 1848) == Deaths == January 4 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian castrato and singing teacher (born 1714) January 6 – William Jones, music theorist and clergyman (born 1726) March 9 – Dominique Della-Maria, composer and mandolin virtuoso (born 1768) April 29 – Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer (born 1733) May 7 – Niccolò Piccinni, composer (born 1728) June 6 – Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer (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) August 4 – Julije Bajamonti, composer and historian (born 1744) 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) == References ==