1804 in music - WikiHQ

This is a list of music-related events in 1804.

Events

January 1 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.
January 23 – François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
September 18 – Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin.
Ferdinand Ries – Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
Gioachino Rossini – 6 Sonate a quattro
Antonio Salieri – Requiem in C minor
Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
Carl Maria von Weber
6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
6 Lieder, Op. 30
Turandot, Op.37 (incidental music for Schiller's production)
Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in C major, Op. 41

Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72 (composed; premiered 1805)
François-Adrien Boieldieu – Aline, reine de Golconde
March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
April 15 – Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
May 13 – Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher (died 1860)
May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
June 13 – Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer (died 1878)
June 21 – Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist (died 1875)
July 14 – Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)
July 17 – Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician (died 1877)
August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
September 8 – Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet (died 1875)
October 1 – Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
October 18
Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician (died 1856)
Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright (died 1880)
November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
July 17 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister (born 1723)
August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
date unknown
Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer (born 1726)
Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)