- 1809 in music
Events
Classical Music
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Ludwig van Beethoven - "Piano concerto no. 5" ("Emperor")
*François-Joseph Gossec - "Symphonie à 17 parties"Opera
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Gaspare Spontini - "Fernand Cortez"Births
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January 20 -Sebastián Iradier , composer (d. 1865)
*February 3 -Felix Mendelssohn , composer (d. 1847)
*March 19 -Fredrik Pacius , conductor and composer (d. 1891)
*March 31 -Otto Lindblad , composer (d. 1864)
*October 22 -Federico Ricci , opera composer (d. 1877)Deaths
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January 29 -Luigi Antonio Sabbatini , composer and music theorist (b. 1732)
*February -Francesco Azopardi , composer (b. 1748)
*March 7 -Johann Georg Albrechtsberger , organist, composer and music teacher (b. 1736)
*April 17 -Johann Christian Kittel , organist and composer (b. 1732)
*May 31 -Joseph Haydn , composer (b. 1732)
*July 3 -Joseph Quesnel , composer and writer (b. 1746)
*December 31 -Franz Ignaz Beck , composer (b. 1734)
*"date unknown" -Johann Gottfried Eckard , pianist and composer (b. 1735)
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