1808 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular Music 3 Classical Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Events

• December 22 - Ludwig van Beethoven puts on a marathon benefit concert in Vienna, including the first performances of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Choral Fantasy

• Harvard forms its own orchestra.

[edit] Popular Music

• "(Believe Me, if All) Those Endearing Young Charms" by Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson

[edit] Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6
• Bernhard Henrik Crusell - Clarinet Concerto no. 2
• Carl Maria von Weber - Momento capriccioso

[edit] Births

• March 24 - Maria Malibran, soprano
• May 15 - Michael William Balfe
• December 26 - Albert Grisar
• Michael Costa
• Auguste Franchomme

[edit] Deaths

• date unknown - Gaetano Appolino Baldassare Vestris, dancer