1801 in music

Events

• Joseph Haydn completes his oratorio, The Seasons
• Ludwig van Beethoven's ballet, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus premieres in Vienna's Burgtheater (March 28)
• Publication of Introduction to the Art of Playing on the Piano Forte by Muzio Clementi.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Violin Sonata No. 5; Sonata No. 12, Moonlight Sonata completed
• John Marsh – Symphony no. 30 in E minor^[1]
• Pavel Vranický – Ballet Das Urteil des Paris^[2]

Opera

• Étienne Méhul - L'irato
• Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg – Das Pfauenfest

Births

• January 29 – Johannes Bernardus van Bree, composer
• February 21 – Jan Kalivoda, composer
• April 12 – Joseph Lanner, composer
• October 23 – Albert Lortzing, composer
• November 3 – Vincenzo Bellini, composer
• March 26 – Sophie Daguin, ballerina and choreographer

Deaths

• January 10 – Domenico Cimarosa, composer
• March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, composer
• October 23 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, conductor and composer
• November 9 – Carl Stamitz, composer
• date unknown – Jonathan Battishill, composer of church music

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