1823 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1823.

Events

• April 13 - According to his official biographer, Gustav Schilling, eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven;^[1] however, there is no record of Beethoven having attended the concert.
• August 12 - Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La vestale.^[2]
• Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
• The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.
• Soprano Henriette Méric-Lalande catches the attention of the critic Castil-Blaze, who introduces her to the famous tenor Manuel García, thereby advancing her career.^[3]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Diabelli Variations, Opus 120; Missa Solemnis Opus 123.
• Franz Krommer – Symphony No. 6 in D
• Felix Mendelssohn – Concerto for 2 pianos
• Ferdinand Ries – Cello Sonata in G minor, Opus 125
• Franz Schubert – Die Schöne Müllerin

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Alfredo il grande
• Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide
• Franz Schubert – Fierrabras
• Carl Maria von Weber – Euryanthe

Popular Music

• "Home! Sweet Home!" w. John Howard Payne m. Henry Bishop

Publications

• Emanuel Aloys Förster – Anleitung zum General-Baß

Births

• January 3 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer (died 1881)
• January 27 – Édouard Lalo, composer (died 1892)
• July 22 - Paulina Rivoli, operatic soprano (died 1881)
• August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (died 1889)
• August 15 – Léon Gastinel, French composer (died 1906)
• August 17 – Theodor Julius Jaffé, opera singer and actor (died 1898)
• October 21 – Emilio Arrieta, composer (died 1894)
• November 26 – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (died 1874)
• December 1 – Ernest Reyer, opera composer and music critic (died 1909)
• December 11 - David Bennett, Canadian soldier and musician (died 1902)
• date unknown
  • John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (died 1857)
  • George Lichtenstein, Hungarian pianist and music teacher (died 1893)
  • Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly, Kazakh folk musician and composer (died 1896)

Deaths

• February 16 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer (born 1753)
• March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat, singer (born 1764)
• March 18 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French cellist and composer (born 1753)
• April 15 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (born 1772)
• June 20 – Theodor von Schacht, German composer (born 1748)
• October 2 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer (born 1765)
• November 12 – Emanuel Aloys Förster, composer and music teacher (born 1748)

References