1802 in music

Template:Year nav topic5 This is a list of music-related events in 1802.

Events

January 9 – The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
January 20 – Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
February 15 – Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
March 19 – Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
April 30 – Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
May 5
- Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
- Composers Jan Ladislav Dussek and Louis Spohr are introduced by Herr Kiekhöver in Hamburg.
July 20 – The chapel created by Napoleon in the Tuileries is officially opened, with Giovanni Paisiello as its musical director.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
August 15 – Luigi Cherubini, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Nicolò Isouard go into business as publishers of their own music.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
October 6 – Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Charles-Simon Catel – Traité d’harmonie (Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Frédéric Duvernoy – Méthod pour le Cor (Mme Le Roi, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Johann Nikolaus Forkel – On Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life, Art, and Work: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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John Gunn – An Essay Theoretical and Practical (London: Preston, for the author)
Christian Kalkbrenner – Histoire de la Musique (Paris: Amand Kœnig)
Heinrich Christoph Koch – Musikalisches Lexikon (Frankfurt am Main: August Hermann der Jüngere)
Jean-Xavier Lefèvre – Méthode de clarinette (Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
Georg Joseph Vogler – Handbuch zur Harmonielehre (Prague: K. Barth)

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- 6 Ländler, WoO 15
- Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
- "No, Non Tubarti", WoO 92a
- "Ne' giorni tuoi felici", WoO 93
- "Graf, Graf, Liebster Graf" WoO 101
- Piano Sonata No. 16
- Piano Sonata No. 17
- Piano Sonata No. 18
- 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
- 6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34
- Eroica Variations, Op. 35
Matthieu Frédéric Blasius – Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Wind Quintet Nos.1–3
Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 40
Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Duo in F major, Op. 26
- Piano Sonata No.17, Op. 43
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 19–21, Op. 45
- Piano Sonatas Nos. 22–23, Op. 47
Emanuel Aloys Förster – 3 String Quartets, Op. 21
Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work <ref>Template:Citation</ref>
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Franz Krommer
- Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
- Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ignaz Pleyel – Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)<ref name=musicandhistory>MusicandHistory.com 1802 Template:Webarchive. Accessed 28 February 2014</ref>
Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
Anton Ferdinand Titz – 3 String Quartets
Samuel Wesley – Symphony in B-flat<ref name=musicandhistory/>
Carl Friedrich Zelter – Sammlung kleiner Balladen und Lieder, Z.123

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February 26 – Victor Hugo, librettist and poet (died 1885)
March 3 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
March 5 – James Turle, editor and organist (died 1882)
May 31
- Eduard Grund, composer (died 1871)
- Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (died 1870)
July 3 – Joseph Labitzky, composer and conductor (died 1881)
July 12 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer<ref>Charles Louis Hanssens, Requiem Survey.</ref> (died 1852)
July 15 – John Barnett, English composer (died 1890)
July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, librettist and writer (died 1870)
July 27 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
August 13 – Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (died 1850)
August 23 – Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
August 28 – Karl Joseph Simrock, librettist and poet (died 1876)
September 18 – Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, composer (died 1874)
September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, dedicatee and politician (died 1894)
September 24 – Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, librettist and Lord Chief Justice (died 1880)
October 7 – Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
October 10 – George Pope Morris, librettist and publisher (died 1864)
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- Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy, pianist and composer (died c. 1880)
- Ureli Corelli Hill, conductor (died 1875)
- George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
- Marion Dix Sullivan, American composer (died 1860)
- José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)

January 27 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, conductor and composer, 42
March 7 – Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, 51
April 10 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano, 67
April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, lyricist and physician (born 1731)
July 26 – Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter and musician, 41 (yellow fever)<ref>Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie, Les Artistes français du xviiie siècle oubliés ou dédaignés, Paris, Vve Jules Renouard, 1865, p. 75</ref>
July 28 – Giuseppe Sarti, composer, 72
August 10 – Antonio Lolli, violinist and composer (born c. 1725)
August 23 – Corona Schröter, singer, 51
September 28 – Heinrich Harries, lyricist and pastor (born 1762)
October 2 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher, 65
October 22 – Samuel Arnold, composer and organist, 62