1824 in music
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Events
- May 7 – First performance of Beethoven 9th SymphonySymphony No. 9 (Beethoven)The Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125, is the final complete symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven. Completed in 1824, the symphony is one of the best known works of the Western classical repertoire, and has been adapted for use as the European Anthem...
. - June 21 – 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...
makes his London debut. Muzio ClementiMuzio ClementiMuzio Clementi was a celebrated composer, pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer. Born in Italy, he spent most of his life in England. He is best known for his piano sonatas, and his collection of piano studies, Gradus ad Parnassum...
is among the audience.
Classical music
- Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
– Missa Solemnis - Hector BerliozHector BerliozHector Berlioz was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande messe des morts . Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a...
– Messe solennelleMesse solennelle (Berlioz)Messe solennelle is a setting of the Catholic Solemn Mass by the French composer Hector Berlioz. It was written in 1824, when the composer was twenty, and first performed at the church of Saint-Roch, Paris on 25 July 1825, and again at the church of Saint-Eustache in 1827. After this, Berlioz... - Fanny Hensel – Sonata for Piano in C minor
- 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...
– Octet; String Quartets in A minor and D minor (Death and the Maiden Quartet)
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...
– L'ajo nell'imbarazzoL'ajo nell'imbarazzoL'ajo nell'imbarazzo is a melodramma giocoso, or opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Jacopo Ferretti, after the 1807 play by Giovanni Giraud... - Friedrich KuhlauFriedrich KuhlauFriedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....
– Lulu - 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...
– Il crociato in EgittoIl crociato in EgittoIl crociato in Egitto is an opera in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, with a libretto by Gaetano Rossi. It was first performed at La Fenice theatre, Venice on 7 March, 1824. The part of Armando was sung by the famous castrato, Giovanni Battista Velluti; the opera was probably the last ever written... - Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret (The mountain adventure)
Births
- January 22 – Josef Leopold ZvonařJosef Leopold ZvonarJosef Leopold Zvonař was a Czech composer, pedagogue, and music critic.Zvonař was born in Kublov, studied at the organ school in Prague with Pitsch, and worked as an assistant teacher and organist there; he was briefly the school's director. In 1860 he became director of Žofín Academy, a woman's...
, composer, music teacher and critic (d. 1865) - March 2 – Bedřich SmetanaBedrich SmetanaBedřich Smetana was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style which became closely identified with his country's aspirations to independent statehood. He is thus widely regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music...
, composer (d. 1884) - March 7 – Robert AmbroseRobert Ambrose (composer)Robert Steele Ambrose was a Canadian organist and composer of English birth.-Life:Ambrose was born on March 7, 1824 to Charles Ambrose and Sophia Stoneham in Chelmsford, England. Robert's father was the organist at Chelmsford Cathedral, where Robert most likely received his early musical training...
, organist and composer (d. 1908) - April 22 – Richard WüerstRichard WüerstRichard Wüerst was a German composer, music professor and pedagogue.Wüerst was a pupil of Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen's at the Royal Academy and a pupil of Felix Mendelssohn's in Berlin...
, composer and music teacher (d. 1881) - June 13 – Julius EichbergJulius EichbergJulius Eichberg was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.-Biography:...
, composer (d. 1893) - June 23 – Carl ReineckeCarl ReineckeCarl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist.-Biography:Reinecke was born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany; until 1864 the town was under Danish rule. He studied with his father, Johann Peter Rudolph Reinecke, a music teacher...
, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910) - August 1 – John P. OrdwayJohn P. OrdwayJohn Pond Ordway ) was a doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician.Ordway was born at Salem, Massachusetts. Graduating from Harvard Medical College in 1859, Ordway was one of the first surgeons to volunteer at the start of the Civil War, serving in the 6th Regiment, Massachusetts...
, doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician (d. 1880) - September 4 – Anton BrucknerAnton BrucknerAnton Bruckner was an Austrian composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, complex polyphony, and considerable length...
, composer (d. 1896) - September 8 – Jaime NunóJaime NunóJaime Nunó Roca was a Catalan composer who composed music for Mexico's national anthem.He was born on September 8, 1824 in Sant Joan de les Abadesses, a town in the province of Girona, in Catalonia, Spain. Both his parents, Francesc Nunó and Magdalena Roca, died before his ninth birthday...
, composer of the Mexican national anthem (d. 1908) - November 25 – Antonio GhislanzoniAntonio GhislanzoniAntonio Ghislanzoni was an Italian journalist, poet, and novelist who wrote librettos for Verdi, among other composers, of which the best known are Aida and the revised version of La forza del destino....
, librettist (d. 1893) - date unknown
- François Xavier BazinFrançois Xavier BazinFrançois-Xavier Bazin was a French archetier and bow maker and was first of the Bazin dynasty.Bazin was born in Mirecourt. Notable experts suggest that he was influenced and purportedly studied with Dominique Peccatte in Paris, then established himself in Mirecourt around 1840.He was brother of...
, bow-maker (d. 1865) - Velvel ZbarjerVelvel ZbarjerVelvel Zbarjer , birth name Benjamin Wolf Ehrenkrantz , a Galician Jew, was a Brody singer. Following in the footsteps of Berl Broder, his "mini-melodramas in song" were precursors of Yiddish theater.Born in Zbarazh, Galicia, he moved to Romania in 1845...
, Brody singer (d. 1884) - Charlotta NorbergCharlotta NorbergMaria Charlotta Norberg, as married Törner, , Swedish Ballerina and ballet teacher. She was counted as one of the greatest stars of the Swedish Ballet in the 19th century....
, ballerina (d. 1892)
- François Xavier Bazin
Deaths
- January 7 – Faustino ArévaloFaustino ArévaloFaustino Arévalo was a Spanish Jesuit hymnographer and patrologist....
, hymnographer (born 1747) - February 1 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (born 1759)
- March 3 – Giovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...
, violinist and composer (born 1755) - April 18 – Edward JonesEdward Jones (harpist)Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne....
, royal harpist (born 1752) - June 21 – Étienne AignanÉtienne AignanÉtienne Aignan was a French translator, political writer, librettist and playwright born in Beaugency, Loiret.In 1814 he was made a member of the Académie française, replacing Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in Seat 27....
, opera librettist (born 1773) - September 16 – Giacomo TrittoGiacomo TrittoGiacomo Domenico Mario Antonio Pasquale Giuseppe Tritto was an Italian composer, known primarily for his 54 operas. He was born in Altamura, and studied in Naples; among his teachers were Nicola Fago, Girolamo Abos, and Pasquale Cafaro. One of his pupil was Ferdinando Orlandi...
, opera composer (born 1733) - date unknown
- Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de JouyAnne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de JouyAnne Louise Brillon de Jouy was a French musician and composer.-Life:...
, harpsichordist (born 1744) - Nicolas LupotNicolas LupotNicolas Lupot - born in Stuttgart, 1758-1824, was one of the most illustrious French Luthier/ Violin Makers of his time. He apprenticed under his father and worked in Orleans until 1794....
, luthier (born 1758) - Alexander UberAlexander UberAlexander Uber was a German cello virtuoso, composer, and Kapellmeister; he was a student of Johannes Jäger. Among his compositions are a cello concerto, a set of variations for cello and orchestra, several instrumental works, and some Lieder...
, cellist and composer (born 1783)
- Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy
- probable – János BihariJános BihariJános Bihari was an influential Hungarian Romani violinist. He is one of the founders of Romani academic music and the musical genre verbunkos....
, violinist (born 1764)