# 1804 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1804.

## Events

* January 1 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel's Concerto for trumpet and orchestra receives its première in Vienna, in the presence of Nicholas II, Prince Esterházy.
* January 23 – François-Adrien Boieldieu becomes musical director at the court of Tsar Alexander I of Russia.
* February 20 – Giovanni Paisiello is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.
* April 22 – Twelve-year-old Gioachino Rossini gives a concert at Imola.
* May 8 – Seventeen-year-old Carl Maria von Weber becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.
* May 14 – Napoleon proclaims himself emperor, causing Beethoven to tear up the title page of his recently completed Symphony No. 3 and rename it the Eroica.
* September 18 – Composer Muzio Clementi marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin. There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
* Nicolas Dalayrac is awarded the Légion d'honneur.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major
** Piano Sonata No. 23, Op.57
** Symphony No. 2 (published; composed 1801–02)
** Triple Concerto, Op.56
** Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
* Isabella Colbran – Cavatina di partenza
* Jan Ladislav Dussek – Fantasia and Fugue for piano
* Anton Eberl – Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel
** Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
** Variations for piano Op. 15
** Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
** Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
* Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas
* Niccolo Paganini – Divertimenti Carnevaleschi
* Ferdinand Ries – Piano sonata in A minor, Op. 1 No. 2
* Gioachino Rossini – 6 Sonate a quattro
* Antonio Salieri – Requiem in C minor
* Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin No. 2 in D minor, Op. 2
* Carl Maria von Weber
** 6 Variations sur l'air de Naga de 'Samori', Op.6
** 6 Lieder, Op. 30
** Turandot, Op.37 (incidental music for Schiller's production)
* Joseph Wölfl – Symphony in C major, Op. 41

## Opera

* Ludwig van Beethoven – Fidelio, Op.72 (composed; premiered 1805)
* François-Adrien Boieldieu – Aline, reine de Golconde
* Pierre Gaveaux – Le Mariage inattendu
* Adalbert Gyrowetz – Selico
* Ferdinando Paer – Leonora
* Gaspare Spontini – Milton
* Georg Joseph Vogler – Samori

## Births

* January 24 – Delphine de Girardin, lyricist and writer (died 1855)
* January 25 – Antoni Edward Odyniec, librettist and writer (died 1885)
* February 5 – Johan Ludvig Runeberg, lyricist and poet (died 1877)
* March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer (d. 1849)
* March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, Austrian Jewish composer (d. 1890)
* April 15 – Otto Friedrich Gruppe, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
* May 13 – Aleksey Khomyakov, lyricist and philosopher (died 1860)
* May 31 – Louise Farrenc, born Jeanne-Louise Dumont, French pianist and composer (d. 1875)
* June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)
* June 13 – Gustave de Wailly, librettist and writer (died 1878)
* June 21 – Johann Gabriel Seidl, librettist and archeologist (died 1875)
* July 14 – Julius Schuberth, German author and publisher, founder of Schuberth & Co. (d. 1875)
* July 17 – Carl Ferdinand Becker, music collector and musician (died 1877)
* August 19 – Christina Enbom, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1880)
* September 8 – Eduard Mörike, lyricist and poet (died 1875)
* October 1 – Eduard Sobolewski, Polish-American violinist, composer and conductor (may have been born in 1808; d. 1872)
* October 18
** Alexandre Charles Fessy, composer and musician (died 1856)
** Joseph-Bernard Rosier, librettist and playwright (died 1880)
* November 27 – Sir Julius Benedict, German-born conductor and composer (d. 1885)
* date unknown – Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy, Czech-born organist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)

## Deaths

* March 29 (or 30) – Ivan Khandoshkin, violinist and composer (b. 1747)
* June 16 – Johann Adam Hiller, conductor, composer and music writer (b. 1728)
* July 17 – Christian Ernst Graf, composer and kapellmeister (born 1723)
* August 24 – Valentin Adamberger, operatic tenor (b. 1740)
* November 5 – Maria Anna Adamberger, actress and singer, wife of Valentin Adamberger (b. 1752)
* November 19 – Pietro Guglielmi, composer (b. 1728)
* date unknown
** Gioacchino Cocchi, opera composer (b.c.1720)
** Marie Louise Marcadet, actress and singer (b. 1758)
** Lorenzo Quaglio, stage designer (b. 1730)
** Giovanni Valentini, composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
** Christian Felix Weisse, lyricist and writer (born 1726)
** Abraham Wood, early American composer (b. 1752)