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This is a list of music-related events in 1820.

Events

  • Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.
  • The Musical Fund Society is founded at Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Its first public concert on April 22, 1821, featured Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.
  • Franz Liszt plays in public for the first time in Ödenburg.
  • "Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
  • "London Cheats" aka "There Never Were Such Times" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in The Yellow Drawf or Harlequin Knight of the Golden Moon"
  • "D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30
  • Franz Berwald – Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 2
  • Fanny Hensel – "Annette", H-U 14
  • Friedrich Kuhlau
  • 3 Sonatinas, Op.20
  • Fantasy and Variations, Op.25
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • "Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus" MWV K 2
  • Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q 7
  • Recitativo in E minor, MWV U 11
  • Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 12
  • Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 18
  • Ignaz Moscheles – Piano Concerto No.3, Op.58
  • Ferdinand Ries – Sextet, Op.100 (On "The Last Rose of Summer")
  • Friedrich Schneider – Das Weltgericht, Op.46
  • Franz Schubert
  • Lazarus, oratorio
  • Quartettsatz, D. 703
  • Psalm 23, D.706
  • Louis Spohr
  • Grand Rondo in G major for violin and piano, Op. 51
  • Potpourri on Irish Themes in A major, Op. 59
  • Potpourri on Themes from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for violin and piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
  • Quintet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 52
  • Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 49
  • Violin Concerto No. 9 in D minor, Op. 55

Opera

  • Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos Felices (premiere in Bilbao)
  • Michele Carafa – I due Figaro (premiere June 6 at La Scala, Milan)
  • Friedrich Kuhlau – Elisa, eller Venskab og Kjærlighed, Op.29 (premiered April 17 in Copenhagen)
  • Giovanni Pacini – La schiava in Bagdad (premiere October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)
  • Gioacchino Rossini – Maometto II (premiered December 3 at Real Teatro di San Carlo, Naples)
  • Franz Schubert – Sakuntala, D. 701 (started, never finished)

Births

  • January 9 – Pavel Křížkovský, conductor and composer (d. 1885)
  • February 10 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (d. 1901)
  • February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer (d. 1881)
  • March 7 – Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, German composer and voice teacher (d. 1900)
  • March 24 – Fanny Crosby, American lyricist (d. 1915)
  • May 21 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the Luxembourg national anthem (d. 1893)
  • June 22 – Franz Kroll, pianist (died 1877)
  • July 7 – George Cooper, organist (died 1876)
  • July 20 – Enrico Crivelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1870)
  • July 26 – Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (d. 1846)
  • August 13 – George Grove, music writer (d. 1900)
  • August 30 – George Frederick Root, songwriter (d. 1895)
  • September 5 – Louis Köhler, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1886)
  • October 6 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
  • December 17 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (d. 1879)
  • date unknown
  • Maria Severa Onofriana, fado singer (d. 1846)
  • Anna-Kajsa Norman, Swedish folk musician (d. 1903)

Deaths

  • February 2 – Peder Schall, composer (b. 1762)
  • March 26 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, French dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1748)
  • August 6 – Antonín Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer (b. 1761)
  • August 28 – Antonín Kraft, cellist and composer (b. 1749)
  • October 3 – Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer (b. 1746)
  • date unknown – Marie Bigot, piano teacher (b. 1786)
  • probable
  • Mikhail Matinsky, scientist, writer and composer (b. 1750)
  • Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, composer (b. 1749)

References