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.
Popular music "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)
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