1823 in music

List of years in music (Table)
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Events

Franz Liszt leaves Vienna for Paris.
Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La Vestale
The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.

January 3 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer (d. 1881)
January 27 – Édouard Lalo, composer (d. 1892)
March 6 – Marietta Alboni, operatic contralto (d. 1894)
August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (d. 1889)
August 17 – Theodor Julius Jaffé, opera singer and actor (d. 1898)
October 21 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (d. 1894)
November 26 – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (d. 1874)
December 1 – Ernest Reyer, opera composer and music critic (d. 1909)
date unknown
- John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (d. 1857)
- Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, Kazakh folk musician and composer (d. 1896)