1822 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1822.

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 was founded.
Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda became musical director to Prince Karl Egon II of Furstenburg.
Harpist Franz Stockhausen married soprano Margarethe Schmuck.

"Araby's Daughter" (song) w. Thomas Moore m. George Kiallmark. The words are derived from Moore's "Farewell to Araby's Daughter" published in 1817.

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)

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, lyricist of the Polish national anthem (b. 1747)

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