Music year 1823

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Music year 1823

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Ludwig van Beethoven : Diabelli Variations op. 120; Missa solemnis op.123
Johann Simon Mayr : La vita campestre (cantata for tenor and orchestra)
Gioachino Rossini : Omaggio pastorale (cantata)
Franz Schubert : The beautiful miller (song cycle)
Ferdinand Ries : Farewell Concerto from England for pianoforte and orchestra in A minor op.132
Friedrich Ernst Fesca : The 103rd Psalm for four voices, choir and orchestra op. 26; 5 chants for one and two voices and piano op. 27; Singing to the holy Caecilia for four voices WoO 5

Musical theater

18th January : World premiere of the opera Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante . The material from the early 18th century has been set to music by more than 60 composers, including Mercadante.
February 3 : The world premiere of the opera Semiramide ( Semiramis ) by Gioacchino Rossini based on a libretto by Gaetano Rossi takes place at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Rossini wrote the title role for his wife Isabella Colbran .
February 15 : The opera Cordelia by Conradin Kreutzer with the libretto by Pius Alexander Wolff is premiered at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna. Not least thanks to its first interpreter Wilhelmine Schröder , the opera becomes an extraordinary success.
April 11th : The romantic opera Sulmona by Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner is premiered in Stuttgart.
June 28 : premiere of the opera Abufar, ossia La famiglia araba by Michele Carafa in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
July 2nd : Premiere of the opera Alfredo il Grande by Gaetano Donizetti in Naples.
July 28 : Premiere of the opera Jessonda by Louis Spohr in Kassel.
23 August : Premiere of the opera Temistocle by Giovanni Pacini . It is the last of many settings of this material from the early 18th century.
3rd September : World premiere of the opera Il fortunato inganno by Gaetano Donizetti in Naples.
September 16 : World premiere of the opera Le valet de chambre by Michele Carafa at the Opéra-Comique, Paris
October 25 : Premiere of the opera Euryanthe by Carl Maria von Weber in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
November 20th : Premiere of the opera Sigune , by Conradin Kreutzer at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.
December 1st : The world premiere of the second version of the opera Libussa by Conradin Kreutzer takes place in Berlin.
December 15th : World premiere of the opera La France et l'Espagne , by François-Adrien Boieldieu in Paris, (Hôtel de Ville).

December 20th : Premiere of the play Rosamunde by Helmina von Chézy with incidental music by Franz Schubert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna.

December 27th : Premiere of the opera Demetrio by Johann Simon Mayr in Turin. It is Mayr's last opera.

Other works

Franz Schubert : The Conspirators (opera, completed 1823, premiere 1861) ; Fierrabras (opera, completed 1823, premiere 1897)
Giovanni Pacini : La vestale (opera)
Saverio Mercadante : Gli sciti (opera); Costanzo ed Almeriska (Opera)
Ferdinand Hérold : Le Muletier (opera); Vendôme en Espagne (opera) together with Auber.
Luigi Ricci : L'impresario in angustie (opera)
Joseph Weigl : The iron gate , (opera in two acts).

Born

0January 3 : Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens , Belgian organist and composer († 1881 )
January 15 : Josef Seiler , German poet, composer and organist († 1877 )
January 24th : Wilhelm Franz Speer , German composer, organist and choir conductor († 1898 )
January 27 : Édouard Lalo , French composer († 1892 )
0February 7 : Richard Genée , Austrian librettist, playwright and composer († 1895 )
February 23 : Adolph Kullak , German pianist and music writer († 1862 )
June 30 : Selmar Bagge , German composer († 1896 )
0August 7th : Faustina Hasse Hodges , American composer and organist († 1895 )
October 13 : Immanuel Faißt , German composer and university professor († 1894 )
October 21 : Emilio Arrieta , Spanish composer († 1894 )
November 20 : Edmond Dédé , American composer and violinist († 1903 )
November 29 : Yuri Nikolajewitsch Golitsyn , Russian composer († 1872 )
December 10 : Theodor Kirchner , German composer, conductor, organist and pianist († 1903 )

Died

February 16 : Johann Gottfriedschicht , German composer, Gewandhauskapellmeister, Thomaskantor (* 1753 )
0March 1 : Pierre-Jean Garat , French singer (baritone) (* 1762 )
May 15 : Antonín František Bečvařovský , Czech composer (* 1754 )
May 17th : Giambattista Dall'Olio , Italian musician (* 1739 )
June 20 : Theodor von Schacht , German composer (* 1748 )
October 23 : Marcos Coelho Neto , Brazilian composer (* 1763 )
November 15 : Luigi Caruso , Italian classical composer and conductor (* 1754 )

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