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This is a list of music-related events in 1802.

Events

January 9 – The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.

Charles-Simon Catel – Traité d’harmonie (Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Frédéric Duvernoy – Méthod pour le Cor (Mme Le Roi, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Johann Nikolaus Forkel – On Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life, Art, and Work: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art (Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel)
John Gunn – An Essay Theoretical and Practical (London: Preston, for the author)
Christian Kalkbrenner – Histoire de la Musique (Paris: Amand Kœnig)
Heinrich Christoph Koch – Musikalisches Lexikon (Frankfurt am Main: August Hermann der Jüngere)
Jean-Xavier Lefèvre – Méthode de clarinette (Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Georg Joseph Vogler – Handbuch zur Harmonielehre (Prague: K. Barth)

Ludwig van Beethoven
Second Symphony
6 Ländler, WoO 15
Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
"No, Non Tubarti", WoO 92a
"Ne' giorni tuoi felici", WoO 93
"Graf, Graf, Liebster Graf" WoO 101
Piano Sonata No. 16
Piano Sonata No. 17
Piano Sonata No. 18
3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34
Eroica Variations, Op. 35
Matthieu Frédéric Blasius – Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Wind Quintet Nos.1–3
Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 40
Jan Ladislav Dussek
Duo in F major, Op. 26
Piano Sonata No.17, Op. 43
Piano Sonatas Nos. 19–21, Op. 45
Piano Sonatas Nos. 22–23, Op. 47
Emanuel Aloys Förster – 3 String Quartets, Op. 21
Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)
Franz Krommer
Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35
Ignaz Pleyel – Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)
Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
Anton Ferdinand Titz – 3 String Quartets
Samuel Wesley – Symphony in B-flat
Giovanni Simone Mayr – I misteri eleusini (premiered Jan. 6 in Milan)
Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Le trésor supposé
William Reeve – Family Quarrels (comic opera)
Carl Maria von Weber – Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn

February 26 – Victor Hugo, librettist and poet (died 1885)
March 3 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
March 5 – James Turle, editor and organist (died 1882)
May 31
Eduard Grund, composer (died 1871)
Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (died 1870)
July 3 – Joseph Labitzky, composer and conductor (died 1881)
July 12 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer (died 1852)
July 15 – John Barnett, English composer (died 1890)
July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, librettist and writer (died 1870)
July 27 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
August 13 – Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (died 1850)
August 23 – Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
August 28 – Karl Joseph Simrock, librettist and poet (died 1876)
September 18 – Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, composer (died 1874)
September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, dedicatee and politician (died 1894)
September 24 – Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, librettist and Lord Chief Justice (died 1880)
October 7 – Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
October 10 – George Pope Morris, librettist and publisher (died 1864)
date unknown
Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy, pianist and composer (died c. 1880)
Ureli Corelli Hill, conductor (died 1875)
George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
Marion Dix Sullivan, American composer (died 1860)
José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)