1817 in music
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Template:Year nav topic5 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 (premiered June 19 in Bergamo)
- Sinfonia for Winds in G minor, A 509 (composed April 19)
- 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 ("Berceuse")
- 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 (July)
- String Trio in B-flat major, D. 581 (Autumn)
- 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
Publications
- Francesco Galeazzi – Elementi di Musica
Published Popular Music
- "Oft, in the Stilly Night" – w.m. (arr.) Thomas Moore
- "Te souviens-tu?" – Émile Debraux and Joseph-Denis Doche
Births
- February 3 – Émile Prudent, composer (died 1863)
- February 22 – Niels Gade, composer (d. 1890)
- March 2 – Hans Hansen, composer (d. 1878)
- March 17
- Karl Schroder I, violinist (died 1890)
- Julius Stahlknecht, composer (died 1892)
- March 24 – Aimé Maillart, composer (d. 1871)
- March 28 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes, composer (died 1880)
- May 26 – Emil Erslev, composer (died 1882)
- May 27 – Giuseppe Bardari, librettist (died 1861)
- May 31 – Édouard Marie Ernest Deldevez, composer (died 1897)
- June 13 – Antonio Torres Jurado, Spanish guitar maker (d. 1892)
- August 13 – Károly Thern, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1886)
- September 23 - Léon Charles François Kreutzer, music critic, music historian, and composer (d. 1868)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
- October 5 – Eduard Franck, German composer (died 1893)
- November 12
- Gustav Nottebohm, musicologist (d. 1882)
- Carlo Pedrotti, composer and conductor (died 1893)
- November 13
- Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély, organist (d. 1869)
- Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
- November 24 – Fritz Spindler, pianist (died 1905)
- December 19 – Charles Dancla, composer (died 1907)
Deaths
- January 14 – Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny, composer (b. 1729)
- January 28 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, conductor and composer (b. 1761)
- March 1 – Luigi Gatti, composer (b. 1740)
- June 29 – Ernst Schulze, lyricist and poet (born 1789)
- August 24 – Nancy Storace, operatic soprano (b. 1766)
- October 11 – Franz Xaver Hammer, gambist, cellist and composer (b. 1741)
- October 12 – Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel, composer and pianist (born 1750)
- October 18 – Etienne Méhul, composer (b. 1763)
- November 7 – Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer (b. 1732)
- December 1 – Justin Heinrich Knecht, organist and composer (b. 1752)
- December 3 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (born 1767)
- December 11 – Max von Schenkendorf, poet and songwriter (born 1783)
- date unknown –
- John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)
- Pedro Étienne Solère, composer (born 1753)