1812 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1812.

Events

• January 17 – Carl Maria von Weber leaves Leipzig for Gotha.^[1]
• February 11 – Carl Czerny gives the first Vienna performance of Beethoven's "Emperor" concerto.^[1]
• February 18 – Carl Maria von Weber performs in Dresden but is not a success.
• February 20 – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).^[1][2]
• Date Unknown - Irish composer John Field invents the Nocturne, redefining the form as a short, flowing piano composition written most often in compound duple meter. He wrote his first three, out of eighteen, during this year.^[3]
• March 8 – Composer Georg Joseph Vogler and his pupil Jacob Beer, the future Meyerbeer, leave Darmstadt for Munich.^[1]
• May – The Royal Swedish Opera reopens after a 5-year gap.
• May 26 – Luigi Cherubini resigns from his position at the Académie Impériale de Musique.^[1]
• June 17 – Vogler and his pupil Beer are presented to the Queen of Bavaria at Nymphenburg.^[1]
• July 2 – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.^[1]
• July 26 – Fifteen-year-old Franz Schubert makes his last appearance as a chorister at the Imperial Chapel in Vienna.^[4]
• September 11 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's ballet Sappho von Mitilene receives its première at Vienna.^[1]
• October 5 – Ludwig van Beethoven comes to Linz to try to stop his brother Johann's affair with Therese Obermayer.^[1]
• November 9 – Johann van Beethoven marries Therese Obermayer.^[5]
• December 31 – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.^[1]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
  • Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10
• William Crotch – Palestine (oratorio)^[1]
• Jan Ladislav Dussek – Two Duos for piano and harp^[1]
• Giovanni Paisiello – Mass in C
• Antonio Salieri – Kyrie in C
• Franz Schubert
  • String Quartet No. 2 in C major
  • Klaglied

Opera

• François-Adrien Boieldieu – Jean de Paris
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Jephtas Gelübde (Hoftheater, Munich, 23 November)^[1]
• Gioachino Rossini
  • Ciro in Babilonia
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • L'inganno felice (Teatro San Moisè, Venice, 8 January).^[1]
  • La scala di seta

Births

• January 14 – Karl Graedener, composer (d. 1883)
• January 21 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (d. 1894)
• March 11 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (d. 1865)
• April 20 – Pauline Åhman, harpist (d. 1904)
• April 27 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (d. 1883)
• May 14 – Emilie Mayer, composer (d. 1883)
• June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
• October 1 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
• November 28 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (d. 1887)
• December 28 – Julius Rietz, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

Deaths

• February 9 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (born 1754)
• March 20 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, pianist and composer (born 1760)
• March 27 – Joachim Albertini, composer (born 1748)
• May 21 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (born 1773)
• June 15 – Anton Stadler, clarinet and basset horn player (born 1753)
• July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer (born 1732)
• July 24 – Joseph Schuster, composer (born 1748)
• August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister (born 1756)
• September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, impresario, actor, singer and librettist (born 1751)
• December – Michel-Joseph Gebauer, instrumentalist, bandmaster and composer (born 1763)
• December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (born 1744)
• date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer (born 1746)

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