1803 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1803.
Events
- 5 April – first performance of Beethoven's third piano concerto
- 26 December – Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ
Classical Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Christus am Ölberge, oratorio
- Piano Sonata No. 21 'Waldstein' started
- Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
- Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
- Violin Sonata No. 9
- Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Concerto for Clarinet no 3 in B flat major
- Joseph Haydn – unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op 103
- Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major (op 37)
- Georg von Pasterwitz – 300 Themata und Versetten, op. 4
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major; Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major
Opera
- Gaetano Andreozzi – Il trionpho di Alessandro
- Luigi Cherubini – Anacréon
- Anton Fischer – Die Entlarvten
- Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine
Births
- January 6 – Henri Herz, pianist and composer (died 1888)
- April 2 - Franz Lachner, Bavarian composer/conductor (died 1890)
- June 24 – George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
- July 24 – Adolphe Adam, French composer (died 1856)
- September 4 – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (died 1856)
- December 11 – Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869)
Deaths
- January 2 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, composer (born 1733)
- January 28 – Karl von Marinelli, theatre manager (born 1745)
- February 5 – Giovanni Battista Casti, librettist (born 1724)
- February 6 – Gasparo Angiolini, dancer, choreographer and composer (born 1731)
- June 6 – Louis Gallodier, dancer and choreographer (born c.1734)
- August 29 – Giovanni de Gamerra, librettist (born 1742)
- September 5 – François Devienne, composer (born 1759)
- September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, composer (born 1766)
- September 21 – John Christopher Moller, composer and music publisher (born 1755)
- date unknown
- Johann Becker, organist and composer (born 1726)
- Johann Christoph Kellner, organist and composer (born 1736)