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This article is about music-related events in 1824.

Events

  • May 7 – First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
  • June 21 – Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi, Ferdinand Ries, Friedrich Kalkbrenner and Cipriani Potter are in the audience.
  • Baluswami Dikshitar (brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar) is appointed State Vidwan of Ettayapuram.
  • Franz Liszt commences theory lessons with Antonin Reicha and composition lessons with Ferdinando Paer.
  • First Norfolk and Norwich Festival held in England
  • Robert Stephen Hawker – "The Song of the Western Men"
  • "O Tannenbaum" lyrics published by Ernst Anschutz

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Missa Solemnis
  • Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral"
  • Hector Berlioz – Messe solennelle
  • Ferdinando Carulli – 18 Petits morceaux, Op. 211
  • Frederic Chopin – Mazurka Op. 7 No. 4
  • Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Sonata in D minor, Op. 63
  • Carl Czerny – Piano Sonata Nos.3, 4, and 5, Op. 57, 65 and 76
  • Friedrich Ernst Fesca – String Quartet, Op.34
  • Fanny Hensel – Sonata for Piano in C minor
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Introduction et rondo brillant, Op. 98
  • Friedrich Kuhlau
  • 3 Grand Solos, Op. 57
  • 3 Sonatinas, Op. 59
  • 3 Sonatas with Variations, Op. 60
  • Kaspar Kummer – Flute Trio, Op. 24
  • Maximilian Joseph Leidesdorf – Horn Sonata, Op. 164
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
  • Concerto for 2 pianos
  • Bernhard Molique – Flute Concerto, Op. 69
  • George Onslow
  • Piano Trio No.8, Op. 26
  • Piano Trio No.9, Op. 27
  • Antoine Reicha – 6 Piano Trios, Op. 101
  • Ferdinand Ries – Rule Britannia, Op. 116
  • Franz Schubert: List of compositions by Franz Schubert (1824), &nbsp;799–822, including:
  • Octet, D&nbsp;803
  • String Quartet No.&nbsp;13, D&nbsp;804 (Rosamunde)
  • String Quartet No.&nbsp;14, D&nbsp;810 (Death and the Maiden)
  • Sonata in C&nbsp;major for piano four-hands, D&nbsp;812
  • "Gebet", D&nbsp;815
  • Arpeggione Sonata, D&nbsp;821 (Grand Duo)

Opera

  • Gaetano Donizetti – L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
  • Friedrich Kuhlau – Lulu
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto
  • Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret ("The mountain adventure")
  • Nicola Vaccai
  • Pietro il grande (première January 17 at Teatro Ducale, Parma)
  • La pastorella feudataria (première September 18 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)

Births

  • January 22 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer, music teacher and critic (d. 1865)
  • March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (d. 1884)
  • March 7 – Robert Ambrose, organist and composer (d. 1908)
  • April 22 – Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher (d. 1881)
  • June 13 – Julius Eichberg, composer (d. 1893)
  • June 23 – Carl Reinecke, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
  • August 1 – John P. Ordway, doctor, composer, music entrepreneur and politician (d. 1880)
  • August 19 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer (d. 1898)
  • September 4 – Anton Bruckner, composer (d. 1896)
  • September 8 – Jaime Nunó, composer of the Mexican national anthem (d. 1908)
  • November 25 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (d. 1893)
  • December 24 - Peter Cornelius, composer, writer, translator (d. 1874)
  • date unknown
  • François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (d. 1865)
  • Frederick Ellard, composer (d. 1874)
  • Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer (d. 1884)
  • Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (d. 1892)

Deaths

  • January 7 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (born 1747)
  • February 1 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (born 1759)
  • March 3 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer (born 1755)
  • April 18 – Edward Jones, royal harpist (born 1752)
  • June 21 – Étienne Aignan, opera librettist (born 1773)
  • September 16 – Giacomo Tritto, opera composer (born 1733)
  • December 5 – Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, harpsichordist (born 1744)
  • date unknown
  • Nicolas Lupot, luthier (born 1758)
  • Alexander Uber, cellist and composer (born 1783)
  • probable – János Bihari, violinist (born 1764)

References