1804 in music
This is a list of music-related events in 1804.
Events
- January 1 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.
- January 23 – François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
- February 20 – Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.
- April 22 – Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.
- May 8 – Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.
- May 14 – Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.
- September 18 – Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin. There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
- Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- *Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major
- *Piano Sonata No. 23, Op.57
- *Symphony No. 2
- *Triple Concerto, Op.56
- *Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
- Isabella Colbran – Cavatina di partenza
- Jan Ladislav Dussek – Fantasia and Fugue for piano
- Anton Eberl – Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel
- *Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
- *Variations for piano Op. 15
- *Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
- *Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
- Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas
- Niccolo Paganini – Divertimenti Carnevaleschi
- Ferdinand Ries – Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
- Gioachino Rossini – 6 Sonate a quattro
- Antonio Salieri – Requiem in C minor
- Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
- Carl Maria von Weber
- *6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
- *6 Lieder, Op. 30
- *Turandot, Op.37
- Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in C major, Op. 41
Opera
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72
- François-Adrien Boieldieu – Aline, reine de Golconde
- Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
- Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
- Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
- Gaspare Spontini – Milton
- Georg Joseph Vogler – ''Samori''
Births
- January 24 – Delphine de Girardin, lyricist and writer
- January 25 – Antoni Edward Odyniec, librettist and writer
- February 5 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, lyricist and poet
- March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
- March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer
- April 15 – Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet
- May 13 – Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher
- May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer
- June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer
- June 13 – Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer
- June 21 – Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist
- July 14 – Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co.
- July 17 – Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician
- August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano
- September 8 – Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet
- October 1 – Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor
- October 18
- *Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician
- *Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright
- November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer
- date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer
Deaths
- March 29 – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer
- June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer
- July 17 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister
- August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor
- November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger
- November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer
- date unknown
- *Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer
- *Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer
- *Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer
- *Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter
- *Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer
- *Abraham Wood, early American composer