1800 in music
This is a list of music-related events in 1800.
Events
- January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées, is premièred in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.
- February 22 – Lorenzo da Ponte, best known as Mozart's former librettist, goes bankrupt in London; his partner in the publishing business, Jan Ladislav Dussek, has already gone into hiding.
- March 28 – Anton Weidinger gives the first public performance of Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat major at the Vienna Burgtheater.
- April 2 – Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 debuts at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- April 21 – Haydn's Creation is performed in London. In the interval, Samuel Wesley plays one of his own organ concertos.
- June 2 – The premiere of Cesare in Farmacusa, with music by Antonio Salieri and words by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, takes place at the Kärntnertortheater, Vienna.
- September 6 – During Lord Nelson's visit to Eisenstadt, his companion Emma, Lady Hamilton, performs Haydn's Arianna a Naxos and The Battle of the Nile, with Haydn himself on piano.
- September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.
- October 8 – Prince Joseph Franz von Lobkowitz pays Ludwig van Beethoven 200 florins for his String Quartets.
- October 14 – Nine-year-old prodigy Jakob Meyer Beer makes his début on the concert platform, playing a Mozart piano concerto; Jakob later reinvents himself as Giacomo Meyerbeer.
- December 1 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister and Ambrosius Kühnel establish the Bureau de Musique, a music publishing company, in Leipzig.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- * Symphony No. 1
- *Piano Concerto No. 3
- *Piano Sonata in B-flat Major Op. 22
- *Piano Sonata in A-flat Major Op. 26
- François Adrien Boieldieu – Harp concerto in C Major
- Bartolomeo Campagnoli – 6 Fugues for Solo Violin, Op. 10
- Adelaide Suzanne Camille Delaval – Prelude, Divertimento and Waltz, Op. 3
- Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonata No.18, Op. 44
- Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari – 3 Trio Sonatas, Op. 25
- Adalbert Gyrowetz – Divertissement, Op. 50
- Louis-Emmanuel Jadin – 3 String Quartets, Livre 1
- Leopold Kozeluch – Three Grand Sonatas for piano accompanied by violin and cello
- Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 18
- Wenzel Thomas Matiegka – Fantaisie in C major, Op. 4
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Der Jubel oder Juchhei
- Carl Maria von Weber – 6 Variations sur un thème original, Op. 2 1832
Opera
- François Adrien Boieldieu – Le Calife de Bagdad
- Luigi Cherubini – Les deux journées
- Ferdinando Paer – La testa riscaldata, La sonnambula, Ginevra degli Almieri and Poche ma buone
- William Reeve – Paul and Virginia
- Antonio Salieri – Cesare in Farmacusa and L'Angiolina
- Carl Maria von Weber – ''Das stumme Waldmädchen''
Methods and theory writings
- Anton Bemetzrieder – A Complete Treatise on Music
- Johann Dalberg – Untersuchungen über den Ursprung der Harmonie
- Gottlieb Graupner – A New Preceptor for the German Flute
- P. Hoey – A Plain and Concise Method of Learning the Gregorian Note
- Samuel Holyoke – The Instrumental Assistant
- William Shield – An Introduction to Harmony
- Georg Joseph Vogler
- * Choral-System
- * ''Musik-skole''
Births
- January 1
- *Filipina Brzezinska-Szymanowska, Polish pianist and composer
- *Johann Kulik, luthier
- January 11 – Giuseppina Ronzi de Begnis, Italian operatic soprano
- January 14 – Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, music researcher and composer
- March 5 – Georg Friedrich Daumer, librettist and philosopher
- May 5 – Raymond Brucker, librettist and writer
- June 24 – Antonio James Oury, composer and pianist
- July 30 – Alexander Veltman, lyricist and writer
- July 31 – Michel Masson, lyricist and writer
- August 26 – Joseph Christoph Kessler, German pianist and composer
- October 12 – Francesco Florimo, composer and music historian
- November 6 – Eduard Grell, composer and conductor
- December 1 – Mihály Vörösmarty, lyricist and poet
- December 4 – Emil Aarestrup, lyricist and poet
- date unknown
- *Eduard Brendler, composer
- *Maria Caterina Rosalbina Caradori-Allan, French operatic soprano
- *Pavel Mochalov, lyricist and actor
Deaths
- January 4 – Giovanni Battista Mancini, Italian castrato and singing teacher
- January 6 – William Jones, music theorist and clergyman
- March 9 – Dominique Della-Maria, composer and mandolin virtuoso
- April 29 – Johann Christian Fischer, oboist and composer
- May 7 – Niccolò Piccinni, composer
- June 6 – Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer
- June 10 – Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, composer
- June 11 – Margarethe Danzi, German composer and soprano
- August 3 – Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist and composer
- August 4 – Julije Bajamonti, composer and historian
- September 8 – Pierre Gaviniès, French violinist and composer
- September 26 – William Billings, America's first major composer
- September 27 – Hyacinthe Jadin, French composer