1824 in music

This article is about music-related events in 1824.

Events

May 7 – First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (the "Choral") at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
June 21 – Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi is among the audience.
date unknown - Baluswami Dikshitar (brother of Muthuswami Dikshitar) is appointed State Vidwan of Ettayapuram.^[1]

Gaetano Donizetti – L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
Friedrich Kuhlau – Lulu
Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto
Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret ("The mountain adventure")
Nicola Vaccai
- Pietro il grande (première January 17 at Teatro Ducale, Parma)
- La pastorella feudataria (première September 18 at Teatro Carignano, Turin)

January 22 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer, music teacher and critic (d. 1865)
March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, composer (d. 1884)
March 7 – Robert Ambrose, organist and composer (d. 1908)
April 22 – Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher (d. 1881)
June 13 – Julius Eichberg, composer (d. 1893)
June 23 – Carl Reinecke, pianist, conductor and composer (d. 1910)
August 1 – John P. Ordway, doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician (d. 1880)
September 4 – Anton Bruckner, composer (d. 1896)
September 8 – Jaime Nunó, composer of the Mexican national anthem (d. 1908)
November 25 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist (d. 1893)
date unknown
- François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker (d. 1865)
- Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer (d. 1884)
- Charlotta Norberg, ballerina (d. 1892)

January 7 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer (born 1747)
February 1 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer (born 1759)
March 3 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer (born 1755)
April 18 – Edward Jones, royal harpist (born 1752)
June 21 – Étienne Aignan, opera librettist (born 1773)
September 16 – Giacomo Tritto, opera composer (born 1733)
December 5 - Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, harpsichordist (born 1744)
date unknown
- Nicolas Lupot, luthier (born 1758)
- Alexander Uber, cellist and composer (born 1783)
probable – János Bihari, violinist (born 1764)

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