- 1823 in music
Events
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Franz Liszt leaves Vienna for Paris.
*Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London and is presented to King George IV.
*Hector Berlioz writes to the journal "Le Corsaire" defendingGaspare Spontini 's opera "La Vestale "Classical music
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Ludwig van Beethoven -Diabelli Variations , Opus 120; Missa Solemnis Opus 123.
*Franz Krommer - Symphony No. 6 in D
*Felix Mendelssohn - "Concerto for 2 pianos"
*Ferdinand Ries - Cello Sonata in G minor, Opus 125
*Franz Schubert - "Die Schöne Müllerin"Opera
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Gaetano Donizetti - "Alfredo il grande"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "Semiramide"
*Carl Maria von Weber - "Euryanthe"Popular Music
* "Home, Sweet Home" by
John Howard Payne Births
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January 3 -Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens , organist and composer (d. 1881)
*January 27 -Édouard Lalo , composer (d. 1892)
*March 6 -Marietta Alboni , operatic contralto (d. 1894)
*August 14 -Karel Miry , Belgian composer (d. 1889)
*August 17 -Theodor Julius Jaffé , opera singer and actor (d. 1898)
*October 21 -Emilio Arrieta , composer (d. 1894)
*November 26 -Thomas Tellefsen , pianist and composer (d. 1874)
*"date unknown"
**John Diamond, dancer and minstrel (d. 1857)
**Kurmangazy Sagyrbayuly , Kazakh folk musician and composer (d. 1896)Deaths
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February 16 -Johann Gottfried Schicht , conductor and composer (b. 1753)
*March 1 -Pierre-Jean Garat , singer (b. 1764)
*March 18 -Jean-Baptiste Breval , French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
*April 15 -Louis Deland , actor, singer and dancer (b. 1772)
*June 20 -Theodor von Schacht , German composer (b. 1748)
*October 2 -Daniel Steibelt , German pianist and composer (b. 1765)
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