Music year 1817
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Instrumental and vocal music (selection)
- Ludwig van Beethoven : Fugue for string quintet in D major op. 137; Quintet movement (D minor) for two violins, two violas and violoncello (unfinished); Piano Sonata No. 28 in A major, Op. 101 (completed in 1816 and premiered in 1817).
- Franz Schubert completes one of his most famous and popular art songs , The Trout . The text comes from Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart .
- Johann Simon Mayr : 2 cantatas ( Il sogno di Partenope and Arianna e Bacco )
- Carl Maria von Weber : Divertimento assai facile for guitar and piano in C major op. 38; Seven Variations on a Gypsy Song op.55
- Anton Reicha : Octet for oboes, clarinet, horn, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass op. 96; Andante for cor anglais and wind quartet No. 1 in Eb
- Johann Baptist Cramer : 7th Piano Concerto in E major, Op. 56
- Friedrich Ernst Fesca : String Quintet in D major, Op. 8; String Quintet in E flat major op.9
- Franz Berwald : Concerto in E major for 2 violins and orchestra
- Frédéric Chopin : Polonaise in G minor (earliest piece of music by the composer that has been preserved as a printed work)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel : Adagio, Variations and Rondo on The Pretty Polly op.75
- Georg Gerson : Symphony in E flat major
- Peter von Winter : Ouverture a grand orchester in c minor, op.24
Musical theater
- January 25th : The opera La Cenerentola ossia La bontà in trionfo by Gioachino Rossini has its world premiere at the Teatro della Valle in Rome. The libretto is by Jacopo Ferretti based on the fairy tale Cinderella .
- March 22nd : Premiere of the opera Mennone e Zemira by Johann Simon Mayr in Naples
- May 31 : The world premiere of the Opera semiseria La gazza ladra ( The Thieving Magpie ) by Gioacchino Rossini takes place at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan. The libretto by the Italian doctor and poet Giovanni Gherardini refers to the melodrama La Pie voleuse, ou la Servante de Palaiseau , which the French theater writer Louis-Charles Caigniez wrote together with his colleague Jean-Marie-Théodore Baudouin d'Aubigny.
- June 19th : Premiere of the opera Ifigenia in Tauride by Michele Carafa in Naples.
- September 27 : World premiere of the opera Adele di Lusignano by Michele Carafa in Milan
- November 11th Armida , a romantic opera by Gioachino Rossini , is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples with Isabella Colbran in the title role. The libretto is by Giovanni Schmidt based on episodes from the epic poem The Liberated Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso, completed in 1574 .
- December 27th : premiere of the opera Adelaide di Borgogna (Eng .: "Adelheid von Burgund") by Gioachino Rossini in Rome. The composer has thus released four operas this year.
- December 30th : The opera Adelaide e Comingo by Giovanni Pacini is premiered at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan.
Further world premieres
- Johann Simon Mayr : Amor avvocato (opera); Lanassa (Opera, whereabouts unknown)
- Carl Maria von Weber : König Yngurd , (music for the tragedy by A. Müllner)
- Giacomo Meyerbeer : Romilda e Costanza (Opera) premiered in Padua
- Giovanni Pacini : La sacerdotessa d'Irminsul , (Opera)
- Ferdinand Hérold : Corinne au Capitole (opera); Les Rosières (Opera); La Clochette ou Le Diable page (Opera)
- Franz Danzi : The Rehearsal , (comic opera)
- Louis Emmanuel Jadin : La Gueule du lion ou La Mère esclave (Opera in three acts)
- Peter von Winter : I due Valdomiri and Maometto , two operas that both premiered in Milan.
Born
- February 22nd : Niels Wilhelm Gade , Danish composer and conductor († 1890 )
- March 10 : Marie Nathusius , German narrator and song composer († 1857 )
- March 24th : Aimé Maillart , French composer († 1871 )
- April 4 : Émile Prudent , French pianist, composer and music teacher († 1863 )
- May 11 : Fanny Cerrito , Italian ballet dancer and choreographer († 1909 )
- May 17 : Carl Kuntze , German composer and musician († 1883 )
- May 31 : Edouard Deldevez , French composer, violinist and conductor († 1897 )
- June 7 : Carl Gottlieb Elsässer , Australian composer and music teacher († 1885 )
- June 13th : Antonio de Torres , Spanish guitar maker († 1892 )
- July 17 : Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach , French composer and organist († 1891 )
- July 28 : Adolphe Deloffre , French conductor and violinist († 1876 )
- August 5 : Carl Friedrich Zimmermann , German instrument maker († 1898 )
- August 13 : Károly Thern , Hungarian composer († 1886 )
- August 25 : Friedrich Wilhelm Stade , German organist, conductor and composer († 1902 )
- October 2 : Gunnar Wennerberg , Swedish poet, composer, civil servant and politician († 1901 )
- October 5 : Eduard Franck , German composer († 1893 )
- October 27 : Antoni Kątski , Polish composer and pianist († 1889 )
- November 12th : Martin Gustav Nottebohm , German musicologist, composer and Beethoven researcher († 1882 )
- November 13th : Louis Lefébure-Wély , French organist and composer († 1869 )
- December 19 : Charles Dancla , French violinist and composer († 1907 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- José Escolástico Andrino , Salvadoran composer († 1862 )
- Bernard Ullman , American music impresario († 1885 )
- Joseph Wielhorski , Russian composer († 1892 )
Died
- February 9 : Franz Wilhelm Tausch , German clarinet virtuoso and composer (* 1762 )
- February 23 : Bazyli Bohdanowicz , Polish composer (* 1740 )
- February 28 : Pietro Carlo Guglielmi , Italian composer (* 1772 )
- March 18 : Johann Jakob Walder , Swiss politician, lawyer and composer (* 1750 )
- October 18 : Étienne-Nicolas Méhul , French composer (* 1763 )
- December 1 : Justin Heinrich Knecht , German composer, organist and conductor (* 1752 )
- December 3 : August Eberhard Müller , German composer, virtuoso and Thomaskantor (* 1767 )
See also
Web links
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