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
- Franz Danzi – Die Probe
- Gioacchino Rossini
- *La Cenerentola
- *La Gazza Ladra
- *Armida
- *''Adelaide di Borgogna''
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