1822 in music

Events

• March 16 – Marriage of Gioacchino Rossini and Spanish soprano Isabella Colbran.
• Official date of the invention of the accordion by Christian Friedrich Ludwig Buschmann. (This has been thrown into doubt by the discovery of an accordion apparently manufactured in 1816.)
• The Royal Academy of Music is founded.
• Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda becomes musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
• Harpist Franz Stockhausen marries soprano Margarethe Schmuck.

Popular music

• "Araby's Daughter" (song)

Classical music

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Birthday Cantata for Goethe
• Franz Liszt – Variation on a Waltz by Diabelli
• Brizio Petrucci – Requiem Mass
• Franz Schubert – Symphony no 8 in B minor, D 759 "Unfinished"
• Jan Václav Voříšek – Impromptu

Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – Zoraida di Granata
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – L'esule di Granata
• Franz Schubert – Alfonso und Estrella

Births

• February 26 – Franz Strauss, horn player and composer, father of Richard Strauss (d. 1905)
• February 28 – Nicolas Maline, luthier (d. 1877)
• March 7 – Victor Massé, composer (d. 1884)
• April 8 – Giuseppe Apolloni, opera composer (d. 1889)
• April 25 – James Pierpont, songwriter (d. 1893)
• May 27 – Joachim Raff, pianist, composer and music teacher (d. 1882)
• July 22 – Luigi Arditi, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1903)
• August 15 – Wilhelm Rust, musicologist and composer (d. 1892)
• October 13 – Carl Martin Reinthaler, organist, conductor and composer (d. 1896)
• October 14 – Julie Berwald, singer.
• October 15 – Kornél Ábrányi, pianist and composer (d. 1903)
• December 3 – Korla Awgust Kocor, conductor and composer (d. 1904)
• December 10 – César Franck, organist and composer (d. 1890)
• December 22 – Charles Lebouc, cellist (d. 1893)
• date unknown – Giulio Regondi, guitarist and composer (d. 1872)

Deaths

• January – Americo Sbigoli, operatic tenor (burst blood vessel)
• February 2 – Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer
• March 2 – Hermann Uber, composer (b. 1781)
• March 22 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, organist, pianist and composer (b. 1747)
• April 3 – Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy, violinist, singer and composer (b. 1770)
• June 25 – E. T. A. Hoffmann, composer and author, inspiration for Tales of Hoffmann (b. 1776)
• September 8 – Joseph Karl Ambrosch, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1754)
• October 16 – Eva Marie Veigel, dancer (b. 1724)
• November 18 – Anton Teyber, pianist and composer (b. 1756)
• date unknown
  • Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter (born 1755)
  • Józef Wybicki, soldier-poet, lyricisst of the Polish national anthem (b. 1747)