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This article is about
music-related events in
1821
.
Contents
Events
Classical music
Opera
Publications
Births
Deaths
References
Events
Construction work begins on the
Teatro Regio
at Parma.
José Bernardo Alcedo
wins a contest, sponsored by General
José de San Martín
, to choose a national anthem for Peru. The anthem is "Somos libres, seámoslo siempre," with lyrics by
José de la Torre Ugarte
.
Classical music
Ludwig van Beethoven
–
Piano Sonata No. 31
Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner
– Piano Sextet Op. 58
Friedrich Kuhlau
– 9 Variations For Piano
Felix Mendelssohn
–
Symphonies for Strings 1–6
George Onslow
– Cello Sonata, Op.16 No.3 (with viola part)
Ferdinand Ries
2 Piano Sonatinas, Op. 5
Fantasie nach Schiller's Gedicht 'Resignation', Op. 109
Franz Schubert
"
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern
", D.714; part song for male voices and low strings; Op.posth. 167 (1858)
Symphony No. 7
in E major, D 729
Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in F minor, WoO 19
Mass in C minor, Op. 54
Jan Václav Voříšek
–
Symphony in D
Carl Maria von Weber
–
Konzertstück in F minor
, for piano and orchestra, Op. 79
Opera
Johann Kaspar Aiblinger
–
Rodrigo und Chimene
Michele Carafa
–
Jeanne d'Arc à Orléans
Saverio Mercadante
Andronico
[
1
]
Elisa e Claudio
[
2
]
Giovanni Pacini
–
Cesare in Egitto
[
3
]
Gioachino Rossini
–
Matilde di Shabran
,
premiered Feb. 24 in
Rome
.
Carl Maria von Weber
–
Der Freischütz
Publications
Ananias Davisson
–
Introduction to Sacred Music, Extracted from the Kentucky Harmony and Chiefly Intended for the Benefit of Young Scholars
Births
April 27
–
Henry Willis
, organ builder (d. 1901)
May 6
–
Emilie Hammarskjöld
, composer (d. 1854)
May 25
–
Diederich Krug
, pianist and composer (d. 1880)
June 15
–
Nikolai Zaremba
, musical theorist and composer (d. 1879)
June 27
–
August Conradi
, organist and composer (d. 1873)
July 18
–
Pauline Viardot
, singer and composer (d. 1910)
October 4
–
Fanny Stål
pianist (d. 1889)
October 8
–
Friedrich Kiel
, composer (d. 1885)
October 13
–
Oscar Byström
, academic and composer (d. 1909)
October 16
–
Franz Doppler
, flautist and composer (d. 1883)
[
4
]
October 20
–
Emilio Arrieta
, composer (d. 1894)
[
5
]
December 8
–
Josif Runjanin
, composer of the Croatian national anthem (d. 1878)
December 22
–
Giovanni Bottesini
, composer (d. 1889)
Deaths
March 8
–
Harriett Abrams
, operatic soprano (b. c.1758)
[
6
]
May 15
–
John Wall Callcott
, composer (b. 1766)
[
7
]
June 25
–
Antoine Bullant
, bassoonist and composer (born 1750)
August 6
–
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1757)
[
8
]
August 10
–
Salvatore Viganò
, choreographer and composer (born 1769)
[
9
]
September 22
–
Louise-Rosalie Lefebvre
, "Madame Dugazon", entertainer (born 1755)
[
10
]
October 28
–
Gaspare Pacchierotti
,
castrato
singer (born 1740)
[
11
]
November 10
–
Andreas Romberg
, violinist and composer (born 1767)
[
12
]
date unknown
Jules Granier, composer (born 1770)
Kamalakanta Bhattacharya
, Bengali poet and songwriter (born 1722)
[
13
]
References
↑
Amanda Holden (2001).
The New Penguin Opera Guide
. Penguin. p.
567
.
ISBN
978-0-14-051475-9
.
↑
William Ashbrook (1983).
Donizetti and His Operas
. Cambridge University Press. p.
217.
ISBN
978-0-521-27663-4
.
↑
John A. Emerson; University of California, Berkeley. Music Library (1 January 1988).
Catalog of Pre-1900 Vocal Manuscripts in the Music Library, University of California at Berkeley
. University of California Press. p.
158.
ISBN
978-0-520-09703-2
.
↑
Leonardo De Lorenzo (1992).
My Complete Story of the Flute: The Instrument, the Performer, the Music
. Texas Tech University Press. p.
138.
ISBN
978-0-89672-277-4
.
↑
Christopher Webber (16 October 2002).
The Zarzuela Companion
. Scarecrow Press. p.
27.
ISBN
978-1-4616-7390-3
.
↑
William D. Rubinstein
; Michael Jolles;
Hilary L. Rubinstein
(22 February 2011).
The Palgrave Dictionary of Anglo-Jewish History
. Palgrave Macmillan. p.
12.
ISBN
978-1-4039-3910-4
.
↑
Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997).
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland
. A&C Black. p.
55.
ISBN
978-0-7201-2330-2
.
↑
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni (1982).
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni: Caprices and Airs Varies and Cinquante Etudes
. A-R Editions, Inc. p.
3.
ISBN
978-0-89579-163-4
.
↑
Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973).
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Tibbett to M. West
. SIU Press. p.
162.
ISBN
978-0-8093-1802-5
.
↑
Leander Jan De Bekker (1937).
The Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians
. Crown Publishers. p.
160.
↑
Johann Adam Hiller (12 April 2001).
Treatise on Vocal Performance and Ornamentation by Johann Adam Hiller
. Cambridge University Press. p.
174.
ISBN
978-1-139-42898-9
.
↑
Bertil van Boer (5 April 2012).
Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period
. Scarecrow Press. p.
478.
ISBN
978-0-8108-7386-5
.
↑
K. Ayyappa Paniker (1997).
Medieval Indian Literature: Surveys and selections
. Sahitya Akademi. p.
64.
ISBN
978-81-260-0365-5
.
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