- 1814 in music
Events
* Invention of the
metronome byJohann Nepomuk Mälzel Classical Music
*John Field - "Nocturnes"
*Johann Nepomuk Hummel - "6 Polonaises for piano"
*Franz Schubert - "Gretchen am Spinnrade "Opera
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Ludwig van Beethoven - "Fidelio " (Vienna )
*Friedrich Kuhlau - "Røverborgen (The Robbers' Castle)"
*Giovanni Pacini - "La ballerina raggiratrice"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "Il Turco in Italia"Popular Music
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Henry Bishop - "Sadak and Kalasrade, or the Waters of Oblivion"
*Francis Scott Key - "The Star-Spangled Banner "Births
*January -
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst , violinist and composer (d. 1865)
*February 21 -Nicolò Gabrielli , opera composer (d. 1891)
*April 21 -Beni Egressy , composer and librettist (d. 1851)
*May 12 -Adolf von Henselt , pianist and composer (d. 1889)
*November 6 -Adolphe Sax , inventor of the saxophone (d. 1894)Deaths
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February 3 -Jan Antonín Koželuh , composer (b. 1738)
*April 12 -Charles Burney , English music historian (b. 1726)
*May 6 -Georg Joseph Vogler , organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1749)
*June 8 -Friedrich Heinrich Himmel , composer (b. 1765)
*June 27 -Johann Friedrich Reichardt , composer and music critic (b. 1752)
*July 25 -Charles Dibdin , musician, songwriter, author of "A Musical Tour through England" (b. c. 1745)
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