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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]].<ref name=musicandhistory>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120828144039/http://www.musicandhistory.com/music-and-history-by-the-year/63-1804.html MusicAndHistory.com – 1804]}}. Accessed 1 March 2014</ref>
*[[January 23]] – [[François-Adrien Boieldieu]] becomes musical director at the court of Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia]].<ref name=musicandhistory/>
*[[February 20]] – [[Giovanni Paisiello]] is appointed Maestro di Cappella at Naples.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
*[[April 22]] – Twelve-year-old [[Gioachino Rossini]] gives a concert at [[Imola]].<ref name=musicandhistory/>
*[[May 8]] – Seventeen-year-old [[Carl Maria von Weber]] becomes Kapellmeister at Breslau in Silesia.<ref name=musicandhistory/>
*[[May 14]] – [[Napoleon]] proclaims himself emperor, causing [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] to tear up the title page of his recently completed [[Symphony No. 3 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 3]] and rename it the ''Eroica''.<ref>George, Christopher T. (December 1998). The Eroica Riddle: Did Napoleon Remain Beethoven's "Hero?". "Beethoven: Letters, Journals and Conversations". Napoleonic Scholarship: ''The Journal of the International Napoleonic Society'' 1 (2). {{ISBN|0-8371-9899-2}}</ref>
*[[September 18]] – Composer [[Muzio Clementi]] marries 19-year-old pianist Caroline Lehmann, the daughter of Johann Georg Lehmann, director of the Royal Opera, Berlin.<ref name=musicandhistory/>  There is a 33-year age gap between bride and groom.
*[[Nicolas Dalayrac]] is awarded the [[Légion d'honneur]].<ref name=musicandhistory/>

==Classical music==
*[[Ludwig van Beethoven]]
**[[Piano Sonata No. 22 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major]]
**[[Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata No. 23]], Op.57
**[[Symphony No. 2 (Beethoven)|Symphony No. 2]] (published; composed 1801–02)
**[[Triple Concerto (Beethoven)|Triple Concerto]], Op.56
**Gedenke mein!, WoO 130
*[[Isabella Colbran]] – Cavatina di partenza
*[[Jan Ladislav Dussek]] – Fantasia and Fugue for piano<ref name=musicandhistory/> 
*[[Anton Eberl]] – Symphony in D minor, Op. 34
*[[Johann Nepomuk Hummel]] 
**Rondo in E-flat major, Op. 11
**Variations for piano Op. 15<ref name="musicandhistory" />
**Rondo-Fantasie, Op. 19
**Mass in E-flat major, Op. 80
*[[Leopold Kozeluch]] – Three Piano Sonatas
*[[Niccolò Paganini|Niccolo Paganini]] – ''Divertimenti Carnevaleschi''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://imslp.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Niccol%C3%B2_Paganini|title=List of works by Niccolò Paganini - IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music|website=imslp.org|access-date=2019-05-31}}</ref>
*[[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 [[Friedrich Schiller|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''<ref name="musicandhistory" />
*[[Pierre Gaveaux]] – ''{{Lang|fr|Le Mariage inattendu}}''
*[[Adalbert Gyrowetz]] – ''Selico''
*[[Ferdinando Paer]] – ''[[Leonora (opera)|Leonora]]''
*[[Gaspare Spontini]] – ''[[Milton (opera)|Milton]]''
*[[Georg Joseph Vogler]] – ''Samori''<ref name=musicandhistory/>

==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)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Randel |first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians |date=30 October 2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-25572-2 |page=866 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HXILEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT866 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[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]], [[Russia]]n 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)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/mbl/Biografien/1505.htm|title=Schuberth, Julius Ferdinand Georg|publisher=University of Magdeburg|language=German|accessdate=2014-06-11}}</ref>
*[[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]] 
**[[Charles-Alexandre Fessy|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 (classical era composer)|Giovanni Valentini]], composer, poet and painter (b. c. 1730)
**[[Christian Felix Weiße|Christian Felix Weisse]], lyricist and writer (born 1726)
**[[Abraham Wood (composer)|Abraham Wood]], early American composer (b. 1752)<ref>http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/c/Wood%252C%2BAbraham/all/1 Harmonia Mundi</ref>

==References==
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