1824 in music

Events

* Beethoven 9th Symphony debuts
* June 21 - Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi is among the audience.

Popular Music

*Robert Stephen Hawker - "The Song of the Western Men"

Classical music

* "Missa Solemnis" - Mass by Ludwig van Beethoven
* "Sonata for Piano in C minor" - Fanny Hensel
* "Octet"; "String Quartets in A minor and D minor" - Franz Schubert

Opera

*Gaetano Donizetti - "L'ajo nell'imbarazzo"
*Friedrich Kuhlau - "Lulu"
*Waldemar Thrane - "Fjeldeventyret (The mountain adventure)"

Births

*March 2 - Bedřich Smetana, composer (d. 1884)
*June 13 - Julius Eichberg, composer (d. 1893)
*September 4 - Anton Bruckner, composer (d. 1896)
*October 18 - Frantisek Pivoda, composer
*November 25 - Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (d. 1893)
*"date unknown"
**François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (d. 1865)
**Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer (d. 1884)

Deaths

*January 7 - Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (born 1747)
*March 3 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer (born 1755)
*April 18 - Edward Jones, royal harpist (born 1752)
*June 21 - Étienne Aignan, opera librettist (born 1773)
*"date unknown"
**Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, harpsichordist (born 1744)
**Nicolas Lupot, luthier (born 1758)
*"probable" - János Bihari, violinist (born 1764)