1801 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• January 12 - Domenico Cimarosa is buried at Chiesa di Sant’Angelo, Venice, with a requiem mass performed by local musicians.^[1]
• March 28 - Ludwig van Beethoven's ballet The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus) premières in Vienna's Burgtheater.
• April 12 - Théâtre Feydeau in Paris closes down as a result of its director's other commitments.^[1]
• April 21 - The Teatro Nuovo in Trieste is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Simon Mayr's Ginevra di Scozia.
• April 24 - Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Seasons is premièred as Die Jahreszeiten in Vienna for its aristocratic patrons at the Palais Schwarzenberg; it has its public première on May 19 at the Redoutensaal.^[2]
• December 27 - Nineteen-year-old Niccolò Paganini becomes first violin of Lucca's national orchestra.^[1]
• Publication of Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte by Muzio Clementi in London.

Published popular music

• "'Twas in the Solemn Midnight Hour", composed and sung by Mrs Bland^[3]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 23
  • Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24
  • Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 26
  • Piano Sonata No. 13 & No. 14, Op. 27
  • Piano Sonata No. 15, Op. 29
  • String Quintet, Op. 29
  • The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
• Jan Ladislav Dussek - Two piano sonatas C.184-5^[1]
• John Field - Three piano sonatas op.1^[1]
• John Marsh – Symphony no. 30 in E minor^[4]
• Pavel Vranický – Ballet Das Urteil des Paris^[5]

Opera

• Simon Mayr - Ginevra di Scozia^[1]
• Étienne Méhul – L'irato
• Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg – Das Pfauenfest

Births

• January 11 - John Lodge Ellerton, composer (died 1873)
• January 29 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, composer (died 1857)
• February 21 – Jan Kalivoda, composer
• March 26 – Sophie Daguin, ballerina and choreographer (died 1881)
• April 12 – Joseph Lanner, composer (died 1843)
• June 25 – Antonio D'Antoni, composer and conductor (died 1859)
• October 17 - Alessandro Curmi, pianist and composer (died 1857)
• October 23 – Albert Lortzing, composer (died 1851)
• November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer (died 1835)

Deaths

• January 11 – Domenico Cimarosa, composer, 51 (probable stomach cancer)^[1]
• March 14 - Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, 63
• March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, composer, 59
• May 13 - Bartholomeus Ruloffs, Dutch conductor and composer, 59
• May 14 - Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, organist and trumpeter, 66^[6]
• August 31 - Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist, 88
• October 23 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, conductor and composer, 60
• November 9 – Carl Stamitz, composer, 56
• December 10 – Jonathan Battishill, composer of church music, 63

References

1. MusicAndHistory.com - 1801. Accessed 17 March 2014
2. Clark, Caryl (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Haydn. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press.
3. The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music. Accessed 13 Dec 2014
4. Marsh, John; Graham-Jones, Ian (2001). Symphonies. Part 2, The Chichester symphonies and finales (1788–1801). Middleton, Wis.: A-R Editions. pp. ix. ISBN 0-89579-487-X. Retrieved 2008-05-18.
5. "List of Wranitzky's Works". Retrieved 2008-05-18.
6. "Altenburg Johann Ernst". Editions Bim. Retrieved 22 December 2013.