1822_in_music

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Events

• March 16 - Marriage of Gioacchino Rossini and Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran.
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
• Harpist Franz Stockhausen marries soprano Margarethe Schmuck.
• Official date of the invention of the accordion by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.)

Popular music

• "Araby's Daughter" (song)

Classical music

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel - Birthday Cantata for Goethe
• Brizio Petrucci - Requiem Mass
• Franz Schubert - Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished"

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti - Zoraida di Granata

Births

• February 28 - Nicolas Maline, luthier (d. 1877)
• March 7 - Victor Massé, composer (d. 1884)
• April 8 - Giuseppe Apolloni, opera composer (d. 1889)
• April 25 - James Pierpont, songwriter (d. 1893)
• July 22 - Luigi Arditi, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1903)
• October 13 - Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1896)
• 14 October - Julie Berwald, singer.
• October 15 - Kornél Ábrányi, pianist and composer (d. 1903)
• December 10 - César Franck, organist and composer (d. 1890)
• December 22 - Charles Lebouc, cellist (d. 1893)
• date unknown - Giulio Regondi, guitarist and composer (d. 1872)

Deaths

• January - Americo Sbigoli, operatic tenor (burst blood vessel)
• February 2 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
• March 2 - Hermann Uber, composer (b. 1781)
• June 25 - E. T. A. Hoffmann, composer and author, inspiration for Tales of Hoffmann
• October 16 - Eva Marie Veigel, dancer (born 1724)
• date unknown
  • Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter (born 1755)
  • Józef Wybicki, soldier-poet, lyricisst of the Polish national anthem (b. 1747)