# 1802 in music

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.
* January 20 – Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.
* February 15 – Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.
* March 19 – Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.
* April 30 – Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.
* May 5
** Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.
** 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.
* 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.
* October 6 – Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.
* Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.

## Publications

* 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 (Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel)
* 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)

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Second Symphony
** 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
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)
* Franz Krommer
** Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
** Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35
* Ignaz Pleyel – Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)
* Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
* Anton Ferdinand Titz – 3 String Quartets
* Samuel Wesley – Symphony in B-flat
* Carl Friedrich Zelter – Sammlung kleiner Balladen und Lieder, Z.123

## Opera

* Charles-Simon Catel – Sémiramis
* Michael Kelly – Urania
* Giovanni Simone Mayr – I misteri eleusini (premiered Jan. 6 in Milan)
* Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Le trésor supposé
* William Reeve – Family Quarrels (comic opera)
* Carl Maria von Weber – Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn

## Births

* February 7 – Johann Nepomuk Vogl, lyricist (died 1866)
* February 20 – Charles-Auguste de Bériot, composer and violinist (died 1870)
* February 25 – Georg Scheurlin, music publisher (died 1872)
* 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 (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)
* date unknown
** 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)

## Deaths

* 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)
* 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