1817 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1817.

Events

Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Improved form of ophicleide invented by Jean Hilaire Asté in France.

Classical music

Ludwig van Beethoven
*String Quintet, Op.104
*Fugue in D major, Op.137
*Gesang der Mönche, WoO 104
*So oder So, WoO 148
*Resignation, WoO 149
Alexandre-Pierre-François Boëly – 30 Caprices, Op. 2
Ferdinando Carulli – 6 Duos for Guitar and Flute, Op. 109
Frederic Chopin – Two Polonaises
Muzio Clementi – Gradus ad Parnassum Volume I is published simultaneously in London, Paris and Leipzig on March 1.
Gaetano Donizetti
*English Horn Concertino, A 459
*Sinfonia for Winds in G minor, A 509
Friedrich Dotzauer – Pot-Pourri for Cello and Guitar, Op. 21
John Field
*Nocturne No.4 in A major, H.36
*Nocturne No.6 in F major
Georg Gerson – Symphony in E-flat major
Mauro Giuliani
*Divertimenti, Op. 78
*Preludes, Op. 83
Johann Nepomuk Hummel
*Adagio, Variationen und Rondo über 'Pretty Polly', Op. 75
*Variations sur un theme original, Op. 76
Anselm Hüttenbrenner – 6 Variations, Op. 2
Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz – 2 Harp Duos, Op. 5
Iwan Müller – Clarinet Quartet No. 2
Niccolo Paganini – Violin Concerto No.1, Op.6
Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no. 1 in E-flat major
Franz Schubert
*Piano Sonata No.4, D.537
*Allegro and Scherzo, D.570
*String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581
*Notable Lieder
**Trost, D.523
**Schlaflied, D.527
**Der Tod und das Mädchen, D.531
**Ganymed, D.544
**An die Musik, D.547
**Die Forelle, D.550
Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.11, Op. 43
Václav Jan Tomášek – 6 Eglogues, Op. 47

Opera

Publications

Francesco Galeazzi – ''Elementi di Musica''

Published Popular Music

"Oft, in the Stilly Night" – w.m. Thomas Moore
"Te souviens-tu?" – Émile Debraux and Joseph-Denis Doche

Births

February 3 – Émile Prudent, composer
February 22 – Niels Gade, composer
March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer
March 17
*Karl Schroder I, violinist
*Julius Stahlknecht, composer
March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer
March 28 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes, composer
May 26 – Emil Erslev, composer
May 27 – Giuseppe Bardari, librettist
May 31 – Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez, composer
June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker
August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer
September 23 - Léon Charles François Kreutzer, music critic, music historian, and composer
October 5 – Eduard Franck, German composer
November 12
*Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist
*Carlo Pedrotti, composer and conductor
November 13
*Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist
*Henry Brinley Richards, composer
November 24 – Fritz Spindler, pianist
December 19 – Charles Dancla, composer

Deaths

January 14 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer
January 28 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, conductor and composer
March 1 – Luigi Gatti, composer
June 29 – Ernst Schulze, lyricist and poet
August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano
October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer
October 12 – Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist
October 18 – Etienne Méhul, composer
November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer
December 3 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer
December 11 – Max von Schenkendorf, poet and songwriter
date unknown –
*John Peacock, Northumbrian piper
*Pedro Étienne Solère, composer