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This is a list of music-related events in 1805.

Events

  • April 7 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton, marking the beginning of his middle period.
  • November 20 – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore) is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
  • Louis Spohr is appointed musical director to the court of Gotha.
  • Niccolò Paganini begins touring Europe.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Leonora Overture No.2, Op. 72a
  • Erlkönig, WoO 131
  • ETA Hoffmann – Piano Sonatas
  • Franz Krommer – Concerto for Oboe in F Major, Op. 52
  • Louis Spohr
  • 2 String Quartets, Op. 4
  • Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 7
  • Joseph Wölfl
  • Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 25
  • Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 33

Opera

  • Michele Carafa – Il Fantasma
  • Luigi Cherubini – Faniska
  • James Hook – The Soldier's Return
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio

Births

  • January 7 – Philip Klitz, composer (d. 1854)
  • February 22 – Robert Reinick, lyricist and artist (died 1852)
  • March 5 – Théodore Labarre, harpist and composer (d. 1870)
  • March 17 – Manuel García, singer and music teacher (d. 1906)
  • May 14 – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer (d. 1900)
  • July 8 – Luigi Ricci, opera composer (d. 1859)
  • July 27 – Luigi Felice Rossi, composer and musicologist (d. 1863)
  • October 28 – John Thomson, composer (d. 1841)
  • November 1 – Alessandro Nini, composer (d. 1880)
  • November 14 – Fanny Mendelssohn, pianist and composer (d. 1847)

Deaths

  • January 23 – Václav Pichl, composer (b. 1741)
  • February 4 – Johann George Tromlitz, flautist (b. 1725)
  • April – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, organist, conductor, composer and music teacher (b. 1746)
  • April 28 – Peter Pelham, harpsichordist, organist and composer (b. 1721)
  • May 9 – Friedrich Schiller, librettist and poet (born 1759)
  • May 10 – Johann Evangelist Haydn, tenor, brother of Joseph Haydn and Michael Haydn (b. 1743)
  • May 28 – Luigi Boccherini, composer (b. 1743)
  • August – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (b. 1776)
  • November – Hamoir, dancer and theatre director
  • December 18 – Gennaro Astarita, opera composer (b. c.1745)

References