This is a list of music-related events in 1804.
Events
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major
- Piano Sonata No. 23, Op.57
- Symphony No. 2 (published; composed 1801âÂÂ02)
- Triple Concerto, Op.56
- Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
- Isabella Colbran â Cavatina di partenza
- Jan Ladislav Dussek â Fantasia and Fugue for piano
- Anton Eberl â Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
- Variations for piano Op. 15
- Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
- Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
- Leopold Kozeluch â Three Piano Sonatas
- Niccolo Paganini â Divertimenti Carnevaleschi
- Ferdinand Ries â Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
- Gioachino Rossini â 6 Sonate a quattro
- Antonio Salieri â Requiem in C minor
- Louis Spohr â Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
- Carl Maria von Weber
- 6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
- 6 Lieder, Op. 30
- Turandot, Op.37 (incidental music for Schiller's production)
- Joseph Wölfl â Symphony in C major, Op. 41
Opera
Births
- January 24 â Delphine de Girardin, lyricist and writer (died 1855)
- January 25 â Antoni Edward Odyniec, librettist and writer (died 1885)
- February 5 â Johan Ludvig Runeberg, lyricist and poet (died 1877)
- March 14 â Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
- March 30 â Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
- April 15 â Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
- May 13 â Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher (died 1860)
- May 31 â Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
- June 1 â Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
- June 13 â Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer (died 1878)
- June 21 â Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist (died 1875)
- July 14 â Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)
- July 17 â Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician (died 1877)
- August 19 â Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
- September 8 â Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet (died 1875)
- October 1 â Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
- October 18
- Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician (died 1856)
- Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright (died 1880)
- November 27 â Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
- date unknown â Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
Deaths
- March 29 (or 30) â Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
- June 16 â Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
- July 17 â Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister (born 1723)
- August 24 â Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
- November 5 â Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
- November 19 â Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
- date unknown
- Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
- Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
- Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
- Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
- Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer (born 1726)
- Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)
References