# 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 (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
** 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. (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)
* 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)