1812 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1812.

Events

• January 8 - The première of 19-year-old Rossini's L’inganno felice takes place at Teatro San Moisè, Venice.^[1]
• January 17 - Carl Maria von Weber leaves Leipzig for Gotha.^[1]
• February 11 - Carl Czerny gives the first Vienna performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto.^[1]
• February 18 - Carl Maria von Weber performs in Dresden but is not a success.
• February 20 - Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).^[2][1]
• March 8 - Composer Georg Joseph Vogler and his pupil Jacob Beer, the future Meyerbeer, leave Darmstadt for Munich.^[1]
• May – The Royal Swedish Opera reopens after a 5-year gap.
• May 26 - Luigi Cherubini resigns from his position at the Académie Impériale de Musique.^[1]
• June 17 - Vogler and his pupil Beer are presented to the Queen of Bavaria at Nymphenburg.^[1]
• July 2 - Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.^[1]
• July 26 - Fifteen-year-old Franz Schubert makes his last appearance as a chorister at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna.^[3]
• September 11 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel's ballet Sappho von Mitilene receives its première at Vienna.^[1]
• October 5 - Ludwig van Beethoven comes to Linz to try to stop his brother Johann's affair with Therese Obermayer.^[1]
• November 9 - Johann van Beethoven marries Therese Obermayer.^[4]
• November 23 - Meyerbeer's first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, receives its première at the Hoftheater, Munich.^[1]
• December 31 - Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.^[1]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
  • Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10
• William Crotch - Palestine (oratorio)^[1]
• Jan Ladislav Dussek - Two Duos for piano and harp^[1]
• Giovanni Paisiello - Mass in C
• Antonio Salieri - Kyrie in C

Opera

• François-Adrien Boieldieu - Jean de Paris
• Giacomo Meyerbeer - Jephtas Gelübde
• Gioachino Rossini
  • Ciro in Babilonia
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • L'inganno felice
  • La scala di seta

Births

• January 14 – Karl Graedener, composer (d. 1883)
• January 21 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (d. 1894)
• March 11 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (d. 1865)
• April 27 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (d. 1883)
• May 14 – Emilie Mayer, composer (d. 1883)
• June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
• October 1 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
• November 28 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (d. 1887)
• December 28 – Julius Rietz, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
• date unknown
  • Pauline Åhman, harpsichordist
  • Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano (d. 1866)

Deaths

• February 9 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (born 1754)
• March 20 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, pianist and composer (born 1760)
• March 27 – Joachim Albertini, composer (born 1748)
• May 21 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (born 1773)
• June 15 – Anton Stadler, clarinet and basset horn player (born 1753)
• July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer (born 1732)
• July 24 – Joseph Schuster, composer (born 1748)
• August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister (born 1756)
• September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, impresario, actor, singer and librettist (born 1751)
• December – Michel-Joseph Gebauer, instrumentalist, bandmaster and composer (born 1763)
• December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (born 1744)
• date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer (born 1746)

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