Music year 1804

Music year 1804

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Antonio Salieri : Requiem in C minor for solos, four-part choir and orchestra ; 11 marches for orchestra (around 1804);
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul : Mass Solennelle for soloists, choir and organ
Anton Eberl : Symphony in D minor op. 34; Quartet in G minor for piano, violin, viola and violoncello ; Prelude suivie de VIII variations in G major for two pianos op. 31; Six songs for soprano and piano op. 23;
Ludwig van Beethoven completes the 3rd Symphony in E flat major, op. 55, with the nickname Eroica (Heroic Symphony). The premiere takes place on April 7, 1805. Beethoven also composed in 1804 a. a. the Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, Op. 54

January 26th : The world premiere of the opera La Romance by Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
March 17th : Premiere of the opera Aline, reine de Golconde by François-Adrien Boieldieu in St. Petersburg.

May 12 : World premiere of the opera La petite maison by Gaspare Spontini at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

May 15th : The Singspiel Fanchon, the Leyer Girl by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel has its world premiere at the Court Opera in Berlin .

May 18th : premiere of the opera Amor non ha ritegno by Johann Simon Mayr at the Scala in Milan.

July 5th : Premiere of the opera Elisa by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice.

August 10 : premiere of the opera Zamori by Johann Simon Mayr in Piacenza.

October 3rd : Premiere of the opera Leonora by Ferdinando Paër in Dresden.

November 10th : premiere of the opera Die Negeri by Antonio Salieri in the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

November 27 : World premiere of the opera Milton by Gaspare Spontini at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

Further world premieres

Carl Maria von Weber : Rübezahl , (Opera in 2 Acts) Only the overture, which was later revised, has survived.
Louis Emmanuel Jadin : The composer premieres the following three operas: (1) Jean Bart et Patoulet , (2) Mon cousin de Paris; and (3) La Grand-mère.
Nicolas Dalayrac : The composer brings out the following three operas: (1) La Jeune prude ou Les Femmes entre elles (1 act); (2) Une Heure de Mariage (1 act) and Le Pavillon du calife ou Almanzor et Zobéide (2 acts).
Peter von Winter : Two operas are being published in London, each based on a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte: (1) Il trionfo dell'amor fraterno and (2) Il ratto di Proserpina .

March 14 : Johann Strauss (father) , Austrian composer († 1849 )
March 30th : Salomon Sulzer , Austrian chasan and sacred musician († 1890 )
April 23 : Marie Taglioni , Italian dancer († 1884 )
May 31 : Émile Chevé , French music theorist and music teacher († 1864 )
May 31 : Louise Farrenc , French composer, pianist and musicologist († 1875 )
0June 1 : Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , Russian composer († 1857 )
0June 6 : Per Conrad Boman , Swedish composer († 1861 )
0September 1 : Ernst Julius Otto , German composer, choir director and Kreuzkantor († 1877 )
October 10 : Albín Mašek , Czech composer († 1878 )
October 18 : Charles-Alexandre Fessy , French organist and composer († 1856 )
November 14 : Heinrich Dorn , German Romantic composer († 1892 )
November 27 : Julius Benedict , British composer and conductor of German origin († 1885 )
0December 6 : Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient , German opera singer (soprano) († 1860 )

February 22nd : Joseph Benda , Bohemian-German musician (* 1724 )
March 30th : Ivan Chandoschkin , Russian composer (* 1747 )
June 16 : Johann Adam Hiller , German composer, music writer and Kapellmeister (* 1728 )
July 17th : Christian Ernst Graf , German composer (* 1723 )
August 19 : Albert Androt , French composer (* 1781 )
August 24 : Josef Valentin Adamberger , German opera singer (* 1743 )
November 19 : Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi , Italian composer (* 1728 )

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