- 1817 in music
Events
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Felix Mendelssohn begins studying composition withCarl Friedrich Zelter .Classical music
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Ludwig van Beethoven - String Quintet (Opus 104)
*Muzio Clementi - "Gradus ad Parnassum"
*Anton Reicha - "Andante for Wind Quintet no 1 in E flat major"Opera
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Franz Danzi - "Die Probe"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "La Cenerentola", "La Gazza Ladra", "Adelaide di Borgogna "Published Popular Music
* "Oft In The Stilly Night w.m. (arr.)
Thomas Moore Births
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February 22 -Niels Wilhelm Gade , composer
*March 24 -Aimé Maillart , composer
*June 13 -Antonio Torres Jurado , Spanish guitar maker
*November 12 - Martin Gustav Nottebohm, musicologistDeaths
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January 14 -Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny , composer (b. 1729)
*March 1 -Luigi Gatti , composer (b. 1740)
*August 24 -Nancy Storace , operatic soprano (b. 1766)
*October 18 -Etienne Méhul , composer (b. 1763)
*December 1 -Justin Heinrich Knecht , organist and composer (b. 1752)
*"date unknown" - John Peacock, Northumbrian piper (b. c. 1756)
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