- 1806 in music
Events
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Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
*Themarimba is described for the first time byJuan Domingo Juarros , a Spanish historian, in his "Compendium of the History of Guatemala".
*Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school atBergamo , Italy.Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
*Marcussen & Søn , Danish organ-building firm, founded.Classical Music
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Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Violin Concerto, 3 String Quartets, Op 59.
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel - "7 Hungarian Dances"; "12 Minuets"Births
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January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio Arriaga y Balzola, "the Spanish Mozart"
*June 28 -Napoleon Coste
*August 17 -Johann Kaspar Mertz , guitarist and composer
*September 2 -Josef Gusikov , "klezmer" musician
*November 4 -Anders Selinder , dancer and coreographer
*December 4 -Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmuller , composer
*"unknown date"
**Johann Friedrich Kittl , composer
**Henriette Sontag , operatic sopranoDeaths
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January 30 -Vicente Martín y Soler , opera and ballet composer
*February 23 - John Alcock, composer
*March 23 -George Pinto , composer
*August 10 -Michael Haydn , composer
*"date unknown" -Charles le Picq , dancer and choreographer
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