1804 in music

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Events

Beethoven angrily renames his Third Symphony from the Napoleon to the Eroica after Napoleon crowns himself emperor.
Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written
- Opus 85 Christus am Ölberge (completed)
- Symphony No. 2 (published)
Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D minor, Op. 2

March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, composer (d. 1890)
May 31 – Louise Farrenc, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
August 19 – Christina Enbom (d. 1880)
November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, conductor and composer (d. 1885)
date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
November 19 – 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)
- Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)