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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.

Classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30
Franz Berwald – Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 2
Fanny Mendelssohn-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
Friedrich Kuhlau – Elisa, Op.29 (premiered April 17)
Giovanni Pacini – La schiava di Bagdad (première October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)
Gioacchino Rossini – Maometto II (premiered Dec. 3 in Naples)
Franz Schubert – Sakuntala , D. 701 (started, never finished)

Published popular music

"Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
"D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.

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)^[1]
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)^[2]
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)^[3]
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)^[4]
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)

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D major is a major scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F♯, G, A, B, and C♯. Its key signature has two sharps. The D major scale is:

A major is a major scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C♯, D, E, F♯, and G♯. Its key signature has three sharps. Its relative minor is F-sharp minor and its parallel minor is A minor. The key of A major is the only key where the Neapolitan sixth chord on requires both a flat and a natural accidental.

A-flat major is a major scale based on A♭, with the pitches A♭, B♭, C, D♭, E♭, F, and G. Its key signature has four flats.

A minor is a minor scale based on A, with the pitches A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Its key signature has no flats and no sharps. Its relative major is C major and its parallel major is A major.

E minor is a minor scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F♯, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has one sharp. Its relative major is G major and its parallel major is E major.

B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, C♯, D, E, F♯, G, and A. Its key signature has two sharps. Its relative major is D major and its parallel major is B major.

A concert piece is a musical composition, in most cases in one movement, intended for performance in a concert. Usually it is written for one or more virtuoso instrumental soloists and orchestral or piano accompaniment.

References

↑ The Musical Monitor. Mrs. David Allen Campbell. 1918. p. 620.
↑ Paul Vernon (1998). A History of the Portuguese Fado. Ashgate. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-85928-377-6.
↑ The Musicians's Year Book. E.P. Dutton. 1895. p. 145.
↑ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.

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[1] The Musical Monitor. Mrs. David Allen Campbell. 1918. p. 620.

[Vernon1998-2] Paul Vernon (1998). A History of the Portuguese Fado. Ashgate. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-85928-377-6.

[3] The Musicians's Year Book. E.P. Dutton. 1895. p. 145.

[4] David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.

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