Year 1821 in Music History

Events in Music

Event of Interest

Dec 28 Composer Gioachino Rossini moves to Bologna

Birthdays in Music

Jan 12 Nikolai Afanisev, composer
Feb 17 Lola Montez, Irish dancer and courtesan, born in Grange, Ireland (d. 1861)
Feb 21 Charles Scribner, American music publisher (Scribner Catalog)
Apr 23 Pierre Dupont, French songwriter, born in Lyon, France (d. 1870)
May 1 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, Swiss pianist and composer, born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1873)
May 25 Diederich Krug, German pianist and composer (Le petit Chevalier), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1880)
Jun 15 Nikolay Zaremba, Russian composer and teacher of Tchaikovsky, born in Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1879)
Jun 27 August Conradi, German organist and composer, born in Berlin (d. 1873)
Jul 12 Cesare Dominiceti, Italian composer, born in Desenzano del Garda, Italy (d. 1888)
Jul 18 Pauline Viardot, French mezzo-soprano and composer, born in Paris (d. 1910)
Aug 24 Emanuele Muzio, Italian composer, born in Zibello, Italy (d. 1890)
Aug 31 Vaclav Hugo Zavrtal, Bohemian clarinetist, band leader, and composer, born in Polepy, Austrian Empire (now Czech Republic) (d. 1899)
Sep 17 Arthur Saint-Leon, French composer and dancer, born in Paris (d. 1870)
Oct 11 Angelo Mariani, Italian composer, born in Ravenna, Italy (d. 1873)
Oct 16 Albert Franz Doppler, Austrian flautist and composer, born in Lemberg, Austrian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine) (d. 1883)
Oct 30 Cenobio Paniagua, Mexican composer, born in Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, Mexico (d. 1882)
Nov 9 Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, French composer, born in Alsace, Guebwiller (d. 1910)
Dec 8 Josip Runjanin, Croatian Serb composer (Croatian National Anthem) and soldier, born in Vinkovci (d. 1878)
Dec 15 Auguste Vaucorbeil, French composer, born in Rouen, France (d. 1884)
Dec 22 Giovanni Bottesini, Italian Romantic composer, conductor and a double bass virtuoso, born in Crema, Lombardy (d. 1889)

Deaths in Music

Feb 8 Paul Anton Wineberger, composer, dies at 62
Mar 23 Bernhard Anselm Weber, German pianist, conductor and composer, dies at 56
Apr 9 Félix Máximo López, Spanish composer, dies at 78
May 15 John Wall Calcott, English composer, dies at 54
Jun 18 Charles Hague, English composer, dies at 52
Jul 9 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, dies at 58
Aug 6 Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 64
Aug 10 Salvatore Vigano, composer, dies at 52
Aug 29 Horace Coignet, composer, dies at 86
Oct 9 Georg Friederich Fuchs, German composer, dies at 68
Nov 10 Andreas Romberg, German violinist and composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
Nov 26 Friedrich Heine, German composer, dies at 57
Dec 20 Gian Francesco Fortunati, composer, dies at 75
Dec 30 Angelo Maria Benincori, Italian composer, dies at 42