1822 in music
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Events
- March 16 – Marriage of Gioacchino RossiniGioacchino RossiniGioachino Antonio Rossini was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces...
and Spanish soprano Isabella ColbranIsabella ColbranIsabella Colbran was a Spanish opera singer, who was known in her native country as Isabel Colbrandt. Many sources note her as a dramatic coloratura soprano but, some believe that she was a mezzo-soprano with a high extension, a soprano sfogato...
. - Official date of the invention of the accordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
by Christian Friedrich Ludwig BuschmannChristian Friedrich Ludwig BuschmannChristian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann was a German musical instrument maker, often credited with inventing the harmonica and sometimes the accordion.-Thuringia:Buschmann was born in Friedrichroda, Thuringia...
. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.) - The Royal Academy of MusicRoyal Academy of MusicThe Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...
is founded. - Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
- Harpist Franz Stockhausen marries soprano Margarethe SchmuckMargarethe StockhausenMargarethe Stockhausen , born Margarethe Schmuck, was a soprano singer who had a distinguished career in Europe and Britain during the 1820s and 1830s...
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Classical music
- Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
– Birthday Cantata for GoetheJohann Wolfgang von GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer, pictorial artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath. He is considered the supreme genius of modern German literature. His works span the fields of poetry, drama, prose, philosophy, and science. His Faust has been called the greatest long... - Franz LisztFranz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
– Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli - Brizio Petrucci – Requiem Mass
- Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
– Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished" - Jan Václav VoříšekJan Václav VoríšekJan Václav Hugo Voříšek , was a Czech composer of classical music, pianist, and organist.-Life:...
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Opera
- Gaetano DonizettiGaetano DonizettiDomenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. His best-known works are the operas L'elisir d'amore , Lucia di Lammermoor , and Don Pasquale , all in Italian, and the French operas La favorite and La fille du régiment...
– Zoraida di Granata - Giacomo MeyerbeerGiacomo MeyerbeerGiacomo Meyerbeer was a noted German opera composer, and the first great exponent of "grand opera." At his peak in the 1830s and 1840s, he was the most famous and successful composer of opera in Europe, yet he is rarely performed today.-Early years:He was born to a Jewish family in Tasdorf , near...
– L'esule di GranataL'esule di GranataL'esule di Granata is a melodramma in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The Italian libretto was by Felice Romani based on the rivalries between the Zegridi and the Abenceraggi factions in the last days of the kingdom of Granada... - Franz SchubertFranz SchubertFranz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...
– Alfonso und EstrellaAlfonso und EstrellaAlfonso und Estrella is an opera with music by Franz Schubert, set to a German libretto by Franz von Schober, written in 1822...
Births
- February 26 – Franz StraussFranz StraussFranz Joseph Strauss was a German musician. He was a composer, a virtuoso horn player and accomplished performer on the guitar, clarinet and viola...
, horn player and composer, father of Richard StraussRichard StraussRichard Georg Strauss was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include Der Rosenkavalier and Salome; his Lieder, especially his Four Last Songs; and his tone poems and orchestral works, such as Death and Transfiguration, Till...
(d. 1905) - February 28 – Nicolas MalineNicolas MalineNicolas Maline was a luthier and an archetier/bow maker.He was apprenticed in Mirecourt and worked for Etienne Pajeot, J.B...
, luthier (d. 1877) - March 7 – Victor MasséVictor MasséVictor Massé was a French composer.-Biography:...
, composer (d. 1884) - April 8 – Giuseppe ApolloniGiuseppe ApolloniGiuseppe Apolloni was an Italian composer born in Vicenza, Italy. He composed a total of 5 operas, only one of which, L'ebreo was successful. He died in Vicenza....
, opera composer (d. 1889) - April 25 – James PierpontJames Pierpont (musician)James Lord Pierpont was an American songwriter, arranger, organist, and composer, best known for writing and composing Jingle Bells in 1857, originally entitled "The One Horse Open Sleigh". He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Winter Haven, Florida...
, songwriter (d. 1893) - May 27 – Joachim RaffJoachim RaffJoseph Joachim Raff was a German-Swiss composer, teacher and pianist.-Biography:Raff was born in Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to fight for Napoleon in...
, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1882) - July 22 – Luigi ArditiLuigi ArditiLuigi Arditi was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor.Arditi was born in Crescentino, Piemonte . He began his musical career as a violinist, and studied music at the Conservatory of Milan. He made his debut in 1843 as a director at Vercelli, and it was there that he was made an honorary...
, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1903) - August 15 – Wilhelm RustWilhelm RustWilhelm Rust was a German musicologist and composer. He is most noted today for his substantial contributions to the Bach Gesellschaft edition of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach....
, musicologist and composer (d. 1892) - October 13 – Carl Martin ReinthalerCarl Martin ReinthalerCarl Martin Reinthaler was a German organist, conductor and composer.Alternative spellings include Karl Martin Reinthaler and Carl Martin Rheinthaler.-Biography:Reinthaler was born in Erfurt and died in Bremen...
, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1896) - October 14 – Julie BerwaldJulie BerwaldJulie Mathilda Berwald was a Swedish concert and opera singer.Born to the concert singer Mathilda Berwald and the musician Johan Fredrik Berwald. She and her sisters Fredrique and Hedvig Eleonora was educated to singers by their mother and sang with her at their fathers concerts...
, singer. - October 15 – Kornél ÁbrányiKornél ÁbrányiKornél Ábrányi, or Ábrányi Kornél in Hungarian iteration was a Hungarian pianist, music writer and theorist, and composer...
, pianist and composer (d. 1903) - December 3 – Korla Awgust KocorKorla Awgust KocorKorla Awgust Kocor was a Sorbian composer and conductor.Kocor was born in Großpostwitz. He was the composer of the music of the Lusatian national anthem Rjana Łužica. He has been called the "founding father of secular Sorbian music."-References:...
, conductor and composer (d. 1904) - December 10 – César FranckCésar FranckCésar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....
, organist and composer (d. 1890) - December 22 – Charles LeboucCharles LeboucCharles Joseph Lebouc was a French cellist. Born in Besançon, France, Lebouc attended the Conservatoire in Paris where he studied under Olive Charlier Vaslin and then Louis Norblin, and later became a cello professor. He played chamber music...
, cellist (d. 1893) - date unknown – Giulio RegondiGiulio RegondiGiulio Regondi was an Italian classical guitarist, concertinist and composer.Regondi was a child prodigy. Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d'amitié, op. 46 to Regondi in 1831, when the boy was just nine.There is a reference to his appearing in London in 1831, presented as a child prodigy of the...
, guitarist and composer (d. 1872)
Deaths
- January – Americo SbigoliAmerico SbigoliAmerico Sbigoli was an Italian tenor.He is best known for the unusual manner of his death, as documented by the composer Giovanni Pacini. Singing the second tenor part in a performance of Pacini's opera Cesare in Egitto, Sbigoli took part in a vocal quintet with first tenor Domenico Donzelli...
, operatic tenor (burst blood vessel) - February 2 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
- March 2 – Hermann UberHermann UberFriedrich Christian Hermann Uber was a German composer, who also served as the cantor of the Kreuzkirche in Dresden....
, composer (b. 1781) - March 22 – Johann Wilhelm HässlerJohann Wilhelm HässlerJohann Wilhelm Hässler , was a German composer, organist and pianist.Hässler was born in Erfurt, Germany. He first studied under his uncle Johann Christian Kittel, who was an organist at Erfurt. His first post was as organist of the local Barfilsserkirche in around 1762...
, organist, pianist and composer (b. 1747) - April 3 – Jean Baptiste Édouard Du PuyJean Baptiste Édouard Du PuyJean Baptiste Édouard Louis Camille Du Puy was a Swiss-born singer, composer, director and violinist. He lived and worked in Copenhagen and Stockholm from 1793 until his death in 1822.-Early years:...
, violinist, singer and composer (b. 1770) - June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, composer and author, inspiration for Tales of Hoffmann (b. 1776)
- September 8 – Joseph Karl Ambrosch, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1754)
- October 16 – Eva Marie VeigelEva Marie VeigelEva Marie Veigel was a dancer and the wife of actor David Garrick....
, dancer (b. 1724) - November 18 – Anton TeyberAnton TeyberAnton Teyber , was an Austrian organist, Kapellmeister and composer.Anton Teyber was born and died in Vienna. His brother was Franz Teyber. He taught the children of the Holy Roman Emperor before working as a composer to the Dresden opera and Vienna court. He is notable for his two 'Concertos for...
, pianist and composer (b. 1756) - date unknown
- Albert Christoph DiesAlbert Christoph Dies-As painter:He was born at Hanover , and began his studies there. For one year he studied in the academy of Düsseldorf, and then he started at the age of twenty with thirty ducats in his pocket for Rome, studying briefly on the way in Mannheim and Basel. In Rome he lived a frugal life till 1796;...
, composer and painter (born 1755) - Józef WybickiJózef WybickiJózef Rufin Wybicki was a Polish general, poet and political figure.-Life:He was a close friend of General Jan Henryk Dąbrowski, and in 1797 he wrote Mazurek Dąbrowskiego , which in 1927 was adopted as the Polish national anthem.During the Kościuszko Uprising, he was counselor of the Military...
, soldier-poet, lyricisst of the Polish national anthem (b. 1747)
- Albert Christoph Dies