1802 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1802.

Events

 * January 9 – The Harmonic Society of Philadelphia is founded, with native composer Andrew Law as its president.
 * January 20 – Luigi Boccherini receives a pension from Joseph Bonaparte.
 * February 15 – Muzio Clementi publishes the second volume of his Practical Harmony.
 * March 19 – Composer François-Adrien Boieldieu marries dancer Clotilde Mafleuray.
 * April 30 – Louis Spohr begins his violin studies under Franz Eck.
 * May 5
 * Composer Giovanni Paisiello, recently arrived in Paris, meets his host, Napoleon, for the first time.
 * Composers Jan Ladislav Dussek and Louis Spohr are introduced by Herr Kiekhöver in Hamburg.
 * July 20 – The chapel created by Napoleon in the Tuileries is officially opened, with Giovanni Paisiello as its musical director.
 * August 15 – Luigi Cherubini, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Pierre Rode and Nicolò Isouard go into business as publishers of their own music.
 * October 6 – Ludwig van Beethoven writes to his brother Carl from Heiligenstadt, in despair over his increasing deafness.
 * Simon Mayr becomes maestro di cappella at Bergamo Cathedral.

Publications

 * Charles-Simon Catel – Traité d’harmonie (Paris: l'Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
 * Frédéric Duvernoy – Méthod pour le Cor (Mme Le Roi, Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
 * Johann Nikolaus Forkel – On Johann Sebastian Bach’s Life, Art, and Work: For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical Art (Leipzig: Hoffmeister und Kühnel)
 * John Gunn – An Essay Theoretical and Practical (London: Preston, for the author)
 * Christian Kalkbrenner – Histoire de la Musique (Paris: Amand Kœnig)
 * Heinrich Christoph Koch – Musikalisches Lexikon (Frankfurt am Main: August Hermann der Jüngere)
 * Jean-Xavier Lefèvre – Méthode de clarinette (Paris: Imprimerie du Conservatoire de Musique)
 * Georg Joseph Vogler – Handbuch zur Harmonielehre (Prague: K. Barth)

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Second Symphony
 * 6 Ländler, WoO 15
 * Bagatelle in C Major, WoO 54
 * "No, Non Tubarti", WoO 92a
 * "Ne' giorni tuoi felici", WoO 93
 * "Graf, Graf, Liebster Graf" WoO 101
 * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 31
 * 6 Variations in F Major, Op. 34
 * Eroica Variations, Op. 35
 * Matthieu Frédéric Blasius – Clarinet Concerto No. 1
 * Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Wind Quintet Nos.1–3
 * Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 40
 * Jan Ladislav Dussek
 * Duo in F major, Op. 26
 * Piano Sonata No.17, Op. 43
 * Piano Sonatas Nos. 19–21, Op. 45
 * Piano Sonatas Nos. 22–23, Op. 47
 * Emanuel Aloys Förster – 3 String Quartets, Op. 21
 * Joseph Haydn – Harmoniemesse, his last major work
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello and bass, Op. 87 (inspiration for Schubert's "Trout" quintet)
 * Franz Krommer
 * Flute Concerto No.1, Op. 30
 * Concerto for 2 Clarinets in E-flat major, Op. 35
 * Ignaz Pleyel – Symphonie concertante in F major, B.115
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Das Zauberschloss (singspiel)
 * Louis Spohr - Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
 * Anton Ferdinand Titz – 3 String Quartets
 * Samuel Wesley – Symphony in B-flat
 * Carl Friedrich Zelter – Sammlung kleiner Balladen und Lieder, Z.123

Opera

 * Charles-Simon Catel – Sémiramis
 * Michael Kelly – Urania
 * Giovanni Simone Mayr – I misteri eleusini (premiered Jan. 6 in Milan)
 * Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Le trésor supposé
 * William Reeve – Family Quarrels (comic opera)
 * Carl Maria Von Weber – Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn

Births

 * February 7 – Johann Nepomuk Vogl, lyricist (died 1866)
 * February 20 – Charles-Auguste de Bériot, composer and violinist (died 1870)
 * February 25 – Georg Scheurlin, music publisher (died 1872)


 * February 26 – Victor Hugo, librettist and poet (died 1885)
 * March 3 – Adolphe Nourrit, operatic tenor (died 1839)
 * March 5 – James Turle, editor and organist (died 1882)
 * May 31
 * Eduard Grund, composer (died 1871)
 * Cesare Pugni, Italian composer (died 1870)
 * July 3 – Joseph Labitzky, composer and conductor (died 1881)
 * July 12 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer (died 1852)
 * July 15 – John Barnett, English composer (died 1890)
 * July 24 – Alexandre Dumas, librettist and writer (died 1870)
 * July 27 – Ida Henriette da Fonseca, alto, composer (died 1858)
 * August 13 – Nikolaus Lenau, lyricist and poet (died 1850)
 * August 23 – Manuel Inocêncio Liberato dos Santos, musician and composer (died 1887)
 * August 28 – Karl Joseph Simrock, librettist and poet (died 1876)
 * September 18 – Jean-Amédée Lefroid de Méreaux, composer (died 1874)
 * September 19 – Lajos Kossuth, dedicatee and politician (died 1894)
 * September 24 – Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, librettist and Lord Chief Justice (died 1880)
 * October 7 – Bernhard Molique, composer (died 1869)
 * October 10 – George Pope Morris, librettist and publisher (died 1864)
 * date unknown
 * Jean-Baptiste Duvernoy, pianist and composer (died c. 1880)
 * Ureli Corelli Hill, conductor (died 1875)
 * George Alexander Lee, singer and composer (died 1851)
 * Marion Dix Sullivan, American composer (died 1860)
 * José Zapiola, conductor and composer (died 1885)

Deaths

 * January 27 – Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, conductor and composer, 42
 * March 7 – Johann Georg Witthauer, composer, 51
 * April 10 – Charlotte Brent, operatic soprano, 67
 * April 18 – Erasmus Darwin, lyricist and physician (born 1731)
 * July 26 – Rose-Adélaïde Ducreux, painter and musician, 41 (yellow fever)
 * July 28 – Giuseppe Sarti, composer, 72
 * August 10 – Antonio Lolli, violinist and composer (born c. 1725)
 * August 23 – Corona Schröter, singer, 51
 * September 28 – Heinrich Harries, lyricist and pastor (born 1762)
 * October 2 – Giuseppe Millico, castrato singer, composer and music teacher, 65
 * October 22 – Samuel Arnold, composer and organist, 62