Music year 1816
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- Antonio Salieri is celebrating his 50th anniversary as a musician and has received numerous awards from the French National Institute and the Music Conservatory in Paris, among others. He becomes an honorary member of the Styrian Music Association and the Milan Conservatory as well as the recipient of the "Great Golden Civil Medal of Honor on a Chain".
Instrumental and vocal music (selection)
- Ludwig van Beethoven : To the distant beloved op. 98 (song cycle); Der Mann von Wort - Lied op. 99; Piano Sonata No. 28 op.101 (completed 1816, premiered in 1817)
- Johann Simon Mayr : 6 cantatas ( Egeria , Annibale , Lo spavento , La tempesta , Lefest d'Ercole , L'armonia )
- Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major, Op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49; Grand Duo concertant for clarinet and piano in E flat major op.48 (chamber music)
- Gioachino Rossini : Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo (Cantata)
- Louis Spohr : Violin Concerto No. 8 in A minor , op.47
- Giacomo Meyerbeer : Gli amori di Teolinda (scenic cantata)
- Franz Schubert : 4th Symphony in C minor; 5th Symphony in B flat major; Mass No. 4 in C major
- Anton Reicha : 12 trios for 2 horns and violoncello , op.93
- Ferdinand Ries : Octet for piano, violin, viola, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violoncello and double bass in C major op. 128; Sonatina for piano for two hands in A minor, Op. 45
- Franz Berwald : Theme and Variations in B flat major for violin and orchestra
Musical theater
- February 20 : The opera The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini under the direction of the composer is premiered at the Teatro Argentina in Rome under the name Almaviva o sia L'inutile precauzione . The opera with the libretto by Cesare Sterbini based on the play Le Barbier de Seville by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais fails the audience. Only the second performance is a great success.
- 3rd March : World premiere of the opera La testa di bronzo o sia La capanna solitaria by Carlo Evasio Soliva at the Scala in Milan.
- March 5th : Premiere of the opera La Fête du village voisin by François-Adrien Boieldieu at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- June 16 : The world premiere of the operetta Hans Max Giesbrecht von der Humpenburg or The New Age of Knights by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner takes place in Munich.
- June 18 : premiere of the opera Charles de France ou Amour et gloire by François-Adrien Boieldieu at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
- June 21, premiere of the opera Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère by Gaspare Spontini in collaboration with Henri Montan Berton and Rodolphe Kreutzer in Paris.
3rd July : World premiere of the opera Gabriella di Vergy by Michele Carafa in Naples. The material was later used by Gaetano Donizetti for his opera of the same name , published in 1826 .
- August 3 : The premiere of the opera Undine by ETA Hoffmann takes place at the State Theater on Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin . Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué wrote the libretto based on his own story of the same name . The stage design comes from Karl Friedrich Schinkel .
- September 1st : Louis Spohr's romantic opera Faust is premiered in Prague . The libretto by Joseph Carl Bernard takes up the legend of Faust . It is not influenced by Goethe's Faust , the first part of which was published in 1808 . Instead, it essentially refers to a play and poem by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger and Heinrich von Kleist .
- September 26th : World premiere of the opera La gazzetta by Gioachino Rossini in Naples.
- December 4th : World premiere of the opera Otello by Gioachino Rossini in Naples.
- Franz Schubert begins with the composition of the opera Die Bürgschaft . The work breaks off in the third act and remains unfinished. The fragment was premiered in concert on March 7, 1908 in Vienna.
- Gaetano Donizetti writes the opera Il Pigmalione . The work will not have its world premiere until 1960.
Further world premieres
- Étienne-Nicolas Méhul : La Journée aux aventures , (comic opera, last stage work by the composer)
- Victor Dourlen : Plus heureux que sage (opera); Le Frère Philippe (Opera)
- Joseph Weigl : Margaritta d'Anjou ossia L'orfana d'Inghilterra , an opera in two acts that premiered in Milan.
- Louis Emmanuel Jadin : L'Inconnu ou Le Coup d'épée viager (Opera in three acts).
Born
- February 21 : Józef Michał Poniatowski , Polish composer, singer and diplomat († 1873 )
- February 26 : Franz Krenn , Austrian composer († 1897 )
- June 4 : Adele Muzzarelli , Italian soubrette, singer and dancer († 1885 )
- July 16 : Antoine François Marmontel , French composer († 1898 )
- August 17 : Benjamin Bilse , German conductor and composer († 1902 )
- September 4 : François Bazin , French composer († 1878 )
- September 15 : Edouard Wolff , Polish pianist and composer († 1880 )
- October 2 : Siegfried Saloman , Danish composer († 1899 )
- October 6 : William Batchelder Bradbury , American composer († 1868 )
- October 14 : Auguste Placet , French violinist and conductor († 1888 )
- November 11th : August Wilhelm Ambros , Austrian music critic and composer († 1876 )
- December 17 : Ferdinand Gleich , writer and composer († 1898 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Vicenç Cuyàs , Catalan composer († 1839 )
Died
- February 14 : Jean-Paul-Égide Martini , Franco-German composer (* 1741 )
- June 5 : Giovanni Paisiello , Italian composer (* 1740 )
- September 26 : František Martin Pecháček , Czech composer (* 1763 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Anna Lucia De Amicis , Italian soprano (* 1733 )
- Ignác Held , Bohemian composer (* 1764 )
See also
Web links
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