# 1823 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1823.

## Events

* April 13 – According to his official biographer, Gustav Schilling, eleven-year-old Franz Liszt gives a concert after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven; however, there is no record of Beethoven having attended the concert.
* May 8 - The most famous song of the nineteenth century, Home, Sweet Home, is sung for the first time in London. (melody by Englishman Sir Henry Bishop, lyrics by John Howard Payne.
* August 12 – Hector Berlioz writes to the journal Le Corsaire defending Gaspare Spontini's opera La vestale.
* Gioachino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
* The arpeggione is invented by Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer.
* Soprano Henriette Méric-Lalande catches the attention of the critic Castil-Blaze, who introduces her to the famous tenor Manuel García, thereby advancing her career.
* Franz Liszt is denied entry into the Paris Conservatory by the Director, Luigi Cherubini, who states that he cannot admit foreigners.

## Classical music

* Christian Frederik Barth – Oboe Concerto, Op.12
* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
** Missa Solemnis, Op. 123
* Vincenzo Bellini – Oboe Concerto in E-flat major
* Hector Berlioz – Amitié, reprends ton empire, H 10b
* Ferdinando Carulli – Duos Nocturnes, Op. 189
* Carl Czerny – Toccata, Op. 92
* Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia – Rondo, Op. 13
* Mauro Giuliani – 6 Variations, Op. 112
* Mikhail Glinka – Andante Cantabile and Rondo
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel
** Nocturne, theme et variations, Op. 99
** Introduction, theme et variations, Op. 102
* Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner – Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 61
* August Alexander Klengel – Piano Trio, Op. 36
* Ernst Krähmer – Variations brillantes, Op. 18
* Franz Krommer
** Flute Quintet, Op. 101
** Symphony No. 6 in D
* Friedrich Kuhlau
** 3 Flute Quintets, Op. 51
** 6 Sonatinas, Op. 55
* Giovanni Morandi – Raccolta di sonate per gli organi moderni No.4
* George Onslow
** Piano Trio No. 7, Op. 20
** Grand Sonata No. 2, Op. 22
** String Quintets Nos.7-9, Opp. 23–25
* Ferdinand Ries
** Symphony Nos. 4 and 5, Opp. 110 and 112
** Introduction et rondeau sur une danse russe, Op. 113, No. 1
** Piano Sonata, Op. 114
** Cello Sonata No. 4 in G minor, Op. 125
* Christian Heinrich Rinck – 12 Adagios for Organ, Op. 57
* Bernhard Romberg – Cello Concerto No. 5, Op. 30
* Franz Schubert –
** Die Schöne Müllerin
** Drang in die Ferne, D. 770
** Der Zwerg, D.771
** Wehmut, D.772
** Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D. 774
* Louis Spohr
** Potpourri on Irish Themes, Op. 59
** String Quartet No.18, Op. 61

## Stage works

* Gaetano Donizetti – Alfredo il grande
* Mary Fauche – The Shepherd King, Op.1
* Saverio Mercadante – Didone abbandonata
* Gioachino Rossini – Semiramide
* Franz Schubert
** Fierrabras
** Rosamunde
* Carl Maria von Weber – Euryanthe

## Popular Music

* "Home! Sweet Home!" w. John Howard Payne m. Henry Bishop

## Publications

* Alling Brown – The Gamut, or Scale of Music (New Haven: A. H. Maltby and Co.)
* Thomas Busby – A Musical Manual (London: Goulding & D'Almaine)
* Emanuel Aloys Förster – Anleitung zum General-Baß
* Philippe Marc Antoine Geslin – Exposition de la gamme (Paris)

## Births

* January 1 – Sándor Petőfi, lyricist (died 1849)
* January 3 – Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, organist and composer (died 1881)
* January 5 – William Smith Rockstro, musicologist and musician (died 1895)
* January 21 – Alexandre Édouard Goria, pianist and composer (died 1860)
* January 27 – Édouard Lalo, composer (died 1892)
* June 2 – Carl Christian Møller, composer (died 1893)
* June 30 – Selmar Bagge, composer (died 1896)
* July 22 – Paulina Rivoli, operatic soprano (died 1881)
* August 3 – Francisco Ansenjo Barbieri, composer (died 1894)
* August 14 – Karel Miry, Belgian composer (died 1889)
* August 15 – Léon Gastinel, French composer (died 1906)
* August 16 – Adolphe Herman, composer (died 1903)
* August 17 – Theodor Julius Jaffé, opera singer and actor (died 1898)
* October 28 – William Spark, musician (died 1897)
* November 4 – Karel Komzák I, composer and conductor (died 1893)
* November 26 – Thomas Tellefsen, pianist and composer (died 1874)
* December 1 – Ernest Reyer, opera composer and music critic (died 1909)
* December 10 – Theodor Kirchner, composer and musician (died 1903)
* December 11 – David Bennett, Canadian soldier and musician (died 1902)
* date unknown – John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (died 1857)

## Deaths

* February 16 – Johann Gottfried Schicht, conductor and composer (born 1753)
* March 1 – Pierre-Jean Garat, singer (born 1764)
* March 18 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French cellist and composer (born 1753)
* April – Jacques Widerkehr, Alsatian composer (born 1759)
* April 15 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (born 1772)
* June 20 – Theodor von Schacht, German composer (born 1748)
* October 2 – Daniel Steibelt, German pianist and composer (born 1765)
* November 12 – Emanuel Aloys Förster, composer and music teacher (born 1748)
* date unknown – Federigo Fiorillo, composer and musician (born 1755)