1814 in music

1814 in music

Events

* Invention of the metronome by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel

Classical Music

*John Field - "Nocturnes"
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel - "6 Polonaises for piano"
*Franz Schubert - "Gretchen am Spinnrade"

Opera

*Ludwig van Beethoven - "Fidelio" (Vienna)
*Friedrich Kuhlau - "Røverborgen (The Robbers' Castle)"
*Giovanni Pacini - "La ballerina raggiratrice"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "Il Turco in Italia"

Popular Music

*Henry Bishop - "Sadak and Kalasrade, or the Waters of Oblivion"
*Francis Scott Key - "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Births

*January - Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, violinist and composer (d. 1865)
*February 21 - Nicolò Gabrielli, opera composer (d. 1891)
*April 21 - Beni Egressy, composer and librettist (d. 1851)
*May 12 - Adolf von Henselt, pianist and composer (d. 1889)
* November 6 - Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone (d. 1894)

Deaths

*February 3 - Jan Antonín Koželuh, composer (b. 1738)
*April 12 - Charles Burney, English music historian (b. 1726)
*May 6 - Georg Joseph Vogler, organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1749)
*June 8 - Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (b. 1765)
*June 27 - Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer and music critic (b. 1752)
*July 25 - Charles Dibdin, musician, songwriter, author of "A Musical Tour through England" (b. c. 1745)


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