# 1820 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1820.

## Events

* Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer.
* The Musical Fund Society is founded at Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Its first public concert on April 22, 1821, featured Beethoven's 2nd Symphony.
* Franz Liszt plays in public for the first time in Ödenburg.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30
* Franz Berwald – Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 2
* Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel – "Annette", H-U 14
* Friedrich Kuhlau
** 3 Sonatinas, Op.20
** Fantasy and Variations, Op.25
* Felix Mendelssohn
** "Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus" MWV K 2
** Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q 7
** Recitativo in E minor, MWV U 11
** Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 12
** Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 18
* Ignaz Moscheles – Piano Concerto No.3, Op.58
* Ferdinand Ries – Sextet, Op.100 (On "The Last Rose of Summer")
* Friedrich Schneider – Das Weltgericht, Op.46
* Franz Schubert
** Lazarus, oratorio
** Quartettsatz, D. 703
** Psalm 23, D.706
* Louis Spohr
** Grand Rondo in G major for violin and piano, Op. 51
** Potpourri on Irish Themes in A major, Op. 59
** Potpourri on Themes from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte for violin and piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 50
** Quintet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 52
** Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 49
** Violin Concerto No. 9 in D minor, Op. 55

## Opera

* Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos Felices
* Friedrich Kuhlau – Elisa, Op.29 (premiered April 17)
* Giovanni Pacini – La schiava di Bagdad (première October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)
* Gioacchino Rossini – Maometto II (premiered Dec. 3 in Naples)
* Franz Schubert – Sakuntala, D. 701 (started, never finished)

## Published popular music

* "Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson
* "D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional.

## Births

* January 9 – Pavel Křížkovský, conductor and composer (d. 1885)
* February 10 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (d. 1901)
* February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer (d. 1881)
* March 7 – Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, German composer and voice teacher (d. 1900)
* March 24 – Fanny Crosby, American lyricist (d. 1915)
* May 21 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the Luxembourg national anthem (d. 1893)
* June 22 – Franz Kroll, pianist (died 1877)
* July 7 – George Cooper, organist (died 1876)
* July 20 – Enrico Crivelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1870)
* July 26 – Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (d. 1846)
* August 13 – George Grove, music writer (d. 1900)
* August 30 – George Frederick Root, songwriter (d. 1895)
* September 5 – Louis Köhler, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1886)
* October 6 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887)
* December 17 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (d. 1879)
* date unknown
** Maria Severa Onofriana, fado singer (d. 1846)
** Anna-Kajsa Norman, Swedish folk musician (d. 1903)

## Deaths

* February 2 – Peder Schall, composer (b. 1762)
* March 26 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, French dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1748)
* August 6 – Antonín Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer (b. 1761)
* August 28 – Antonín Kraft, cellist and composer (b. 1749)
* October 3 – Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer (b. 1746)
* date unknown – Marie Bigot, piano teacher (b. 1786)
* probable
** Mikhail Matinsky, scientist, writer and composer (b. 1750)
** Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, composer (b. 1749)