1818 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1818.

Events

April 12 – Heinrich Stölzel and Friedrich Blühmel patent the first brass instrument valve.
June 10 – The Teatro Nuovo at Pesaro in the Papal States of Italy opens with a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's La gazza ladra conducted by the composer in the town of his birth.
September – Soprano Giuditta Pasta makes her Venice début.
October 12 – The first National Theatre Munich opens as a home for the Bavarian State Opera with a performance of Ferdinand Fränzl's Die Weihe.
October 16 – The first work for the newly invented valved horn is played, Concertino für drei Waldhörner und ein chromatisches Ventilhorn, by composer-performer Georg Abraham Schneider.
December 24 – The Christmas carol "Silent Night" with words by the priest Josef Mohr set to music by organist Franz Xaver Gruber is first performed at St. Nikolaus parish church in Oberndorf bei Salzburg in Austria.
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* Johann Nepomuk Schelble founds the Society of St Cecilia at Frankfurt.
* Beethoven receives the gift of a piano from Thomas Broadwood of the London manufacturers John Broadwood & Sons.

All of the following items are found in the IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library.

George Anderson – The Battle of Waterloo
Heinrich Baermann – Clarinet Concertino, Op. 29
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in B flat "Hammerklavier" Op.106
Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Clarinet Concerto No. 2, Op. 5
Franz Danzi
*Symphony in D major, P. 223
*Concerto Concertant, P. 227
*Clarinet Potpourri No. 2, P. 246
*Flute Sonatina in D major, P. 257
*Clarinet Sonata in B-flat major
Friedrich Dotzauer – Oboe Quartet, Op. 37
Federigo Fiorillo – 3 Duos, Op. 31
Mauro Giuliani – Variations on "Deh! calma oh ciel" from Othello, Op. 101
Johann Neopmuk Hummel – Adagio, Variationen und Rondo über ein russisches Thema, Op. 78
Franz Krommer – String Trio, Op. 96
Karol Józef Lipiński – Variations, Op. 5
Sigismund Neukomm – Symphony, Op. 19
George Onslow – 3 Piano Trios, Op. 14
Anton Reicha – Wind Quintets, Op. 88
Franz Schubert
*Adagio in D-flat major, D. 505
*4 Polonaises, D. 599
*3 Marches héroïques, D. 602
*Fantasy in C major, D. 605a
*March in E major, D. 606
*Rondo in D major, D. 608
*Die Geselligkeit, D. 609
*Trio in E major, D. 610
*Piano Sonata No.10, D. 613
*Sonata for Piano Duet, D. 617
*Polonaise in B-flat major, D. 618a
*8 Variations on a French Song, D. 624
*Piano Sonata No. 11, D.625
*Blanka, D.631
*3 Marches militaires, D.733
*6 Grandes marches, D.819
*Symphony No. 6
Louis Spohr - String Quartet No. 11 in E, Op. 43
Jan Václav Voříšek – 12 Rhapsodies, Op. 1

January 14 – Zacharias Topelius, lyricist and historian
February 6 or August 7– Henry Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer
March 1 – Giulio Briccialdi, composer
March 11
*Antonio Bazzini, composer and violinist
*Marius Petipa, Russian ballet dancer
March 31 – Carolina Granberg, Swedish ballerina
April 6 – Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, lyricist and author
April 19 – Manuel Saumell, composer
June 17 – Charles Gounod, composer
June 28 – Cesare Ciardi, composer and musician
July 1 – Henrietta Treffz, operatic mezzo-soprano and first wife of Johann Strauss II
August 7 – Henry Charles Litolff, composer and virtuoso
September 12 – Theodor Kullak, pianist, composer and music teacher
October 15 – Alexander Dreyschock, pianist and composer
October 26 – Stefano Golinelli, pianist and composer
Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Kazakh folk musician and composer