# 1803 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1803.

## Events

* 5 April – first performance of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto
* 26 December – Haydn performs his last public concert, conducting The Seven Last Words of Christ

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Violin Sonata No. 7 published, composed between 1801 and 1802
** Violin Sonata No. 9
** Trio in E-flat major, Op. 38
** 3 Marches, Op. 45
** Piano Sonata No. 21 "Waldstein" started, Op. 53
** Symphony No. 3 "Eroica", Op. 55
** Christus am Ölberge, oratorio, Op. 85
** Das Glück der Freundschaft, Op. 88
** 10 Variations on 'Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu', Op. 121a
** Minuet, WoO 82
* Johann Evangelist Brandl – Symphony in D major, Op. 25
* Bernhard Henrik Crusell – Concerto for Clarinet No. 3 in B-flat major
* Franz Danzi
** Preiss Gottes, P.48
** Sextet in E major, Op. 15
* Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Quartet in E-flat Major Op. 53 or 56
* Anton Eberl – Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 33
* Joseph Haydn
** unfinished String Quartet in D minor, Op. 103
** 6 Trios, Liv. 1
* Jeremiah Ingalls – "Northfield"
* Franz Krommer
** Concerto No.1 for 2 Clarinets, Op. 35
** Clarinet Concerto No.1, Op. 36
** Concerto for Oboe in F Major (Op. 37)
** Symphony No. 2, Op. 40
* Niccolo Paganini
** Sonata concertata, MS 2
** Grande sonata, MS 3
** Le streghe, Op. 8
* Georg von Pasterwitz – 300 Themata und Versetten, Op. 4
* Ignaz Pleyel – 3 Keyboard Trios, B.474–476
* Pierre Rode – Violin Concerto No.7 in A minor, Op. 9
* Bernard Romberg
** Cello Concerto No.1, Op. 2
** 3 Grand Sonatas, Op. 5
* Antonio Salieri – Gesù al limbo für Soli, vierstimmigen Chor und Orchester
* Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto in C Major
* Giovanni Battista Viotti –
** Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in E major
** Trio for 2 Violins and Cello in G major
* Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in G minor, Op. 40

## Opera

* Gaetano Andreozzi – Il trionpho di Alessandro
* Luigi Cherubini – Anacréon
* Anton Fischer – Die Entlarvten
* Ferdinando Paër – Sargino
* Giovanni Paisiello – Proserpine
* Antonio Salieri – Die Hussiten vor Naumburg

## Births

* January 1 – Carolina Brunström, ballerina (d. 1855)
* January 6 – Henri Herz, pianist and composer (died 1888)
* February 17 – Joseph-Philippe Simon, librettist and actor (died 1891)
* April 2 – Franz Lachner, Bavarian composer/conductor (died 1890)
* April 12 – Anton Wilhelm von Zuccalmaglio, lyricist and composer (died 1869)
* May 12 – Alexandre Montfort, French composer (died 1856)
* June 24 – George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
* June 30 – Thomas Lovell Beddoes, librettist and poet (died 1849)
* July 8 – Julius Mosen, librettist and lawyer (died 1867)
* July 19 – Franz von Kobell, lyricist and mineralogist (died 1882)
* July 20 – Jakob Zeugheer, composer and violininst (died 1865)
* July 24 – Adolphe Adam, French composer (died 1856)
* July 25 – Ferdinand Beyer, arranger and composer (died 1863)
* September 4 – Anna Nielsen, mezzo-soprano (died 1856)
* September 12 – Auguste Brizeux lyricist and artist (died 1858)
* October 11 – Prosper Mérimée, lyricist and writer (died 1870)
* December 5 – Fyodor Tyutchev, lyricist and poet (died 1873)
* December 11 – Hector Berlioz, composer (died 1869)
* date unknown – Jan z Hvězdy, lyricist and writer (died 1853)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke, composer (born 1733)
* January 18 – Sylvain Maréchal, lyricist and writer (born 1750)
* January 28 – Karl von Marinelli, theatre manager (born 1745)
* February 5 – Giovanni Battista Casti, librettist and poet (born 1724)
* February 6 – Gasparo Angiolini, dancer, choreographer and composer (born 1731)
* February 16 – Giovanni Punto, composer and horn player (born 1746)
* February 18 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, lyricist and poet (born 1719)
* March 14 – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, lyricist and poet (born 1724)
* May 8 – John Joseph Merlin, clock- and musical-instrument-maker and inventor (born 1735)
* June 6 – Louis Gallodier, dancer and choreographer (born c.1734)
* July 5 – William Jackson, composer and organist (born 1730)
* July 14 – Esteban Salas y Castro, Cuban composer (born 1725)
* August 29 – Giovanni de Gamerra, librettist and cleric (born 1742)
* September 5 – François Devienne, composer (born 1759)
* September 17 – Franz Xaver Süssmayr, composer (born 1766)
* September 21 – John Christopher Moller, composer and music publisher (born 1755)
* October 7 – Pierre Vachon, composer (born 1738)
* October 8 – Vittorio Alfieri, librettist and dramatist (born 1749)
* December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, lyricist and philosopher (born 1744)
* date unknown
** Johann Becker, organist and composer (born 1726)
** Johann Christoph Kellner, organist and composer (born 1736)