1820 in music

• Pietro Raimondi returns to Naples and begins his career as an opera composer. • The Musical Fund Society is founded at Musical Fund Hall in Philadelphia. Its first public concert on April 22, 1821, featured Beethoven's 2nd Symphony. • Franz Liszt plays in public for the first time in Ödenburg. ==Popular music==

• "Hail to the Chief" – words, Sir Walter Scott; music James Sanderson • "London Cheats" aka "There Never Were Such Times" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in The Yellow Drawf or Harlequin Knight of the Golden Moon" • "D'ye Ken John Peel" – words, John Woodcock Graves. music traditional. ==Classical music==

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 30 • Franz Berwald – Violin Concerto in C sharp minor, Op. 2 • Fanny Hensel – "Annette", H-U 14 • Friedrich Kuhlau • 3 Sonatinas, Op.20 • Fantasy and Variations, Op.25 • Felix Mendelssohn • "Raste Krieger, Krieg ist aus" MWV K 2 • Violin Sonata in F major, MWV Q 7 • Recitativo in E minor, MWV U 11 • Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 12 • Piano Piece in E minor, MWV U 18 • Ignaz Moscheles – Piano Concerto No.3, Op.58 • Ferdinand Ries – Sextet, Op.100 (On "The Last Rose of Summer") • Friedrich Schneider – Das Weltgericht, Op.46 • Franz Schubert • Lazarus, oratorio • Quartettsatz, D. 703 • Psalm 23, D.706 • Louis Spohr • Grand Rondo in G major for violin and piano, Op. 51 • Potpourri on Irish Themes in A major, Op. 59 • ''Potpourri on Themes from Mozart's Die Zauberflöte'' for violin and piano in F-sharp minor, Op. 50 • Quintet for piano and winds in C minor, Op. 52 • Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 49 • Violin Concerto No. 9 in D minor, Op. 55 ==Opera==

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Los Esclavos Felices (premiere in Bilbao) • Michele Carafa – I due Figaro (premiere June 6 at La Scala, Milan) • Friedrich Kuhlau – Elisa, eller Venskab og Kjærlighed, Op.29 (premiered April 17 in Copenhagen) • Giovanni Pacini – La schiava in Bagdad (premiere October 28 at Teatro Carignano, Turin) • Gioacchino Rossini – Maometto II (premiered December 3 at Real Teatro di San Carlo, Naples) • Franz Schubert – Sakuntala, D. 701 (started, never finished) ==Births==

• January 9 – Pavel Křížkovský, conductor and composer (d. 1885) • February 10 – Cornelius Gurlitt, composer (d. 1901) • February 17 – Henri Vieuxtemps, violinist and composer (d. 1881) • March 7 – Gustav Graben-Hoffmann, German composer and voice teacher (d. 1900) • March 24 – Fanny Crosby, American lyricist (d. 1915) • May 21 – Michel Lentz, lyricist of the Luxembourg national anthem (d. 1893) • June 22 – Franz Kroll, pianist (died 1877) • July 7 – George Cooper, organist (died 1876) • July 20 – Enrico Crivelli, Italian opera singer (d. 1870) • July 26 – Maria Severa Onofriana, Portuguese singer and guitarist, considered the founder of fado (d. 1846) • August 13 – George Grove, music writer (d. 1900) • August 30 – George Frederick Root, songwriter (d. 1895) • September 5 – Louis Köhler, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1886) • October 6 – Jenny Lind, Swedish singer (d. 1887) • December 17 – Karl Anton Eckert, conductor and composer (d. 1879) • date unknown • Maria Severa Onofriana, fado singer (d. 1846) • Anna-Kajsa Norman, Swedish folk musician (d. 1903) ==Deaths==

• February 2 – Peder Schall, composer (b. 1762) • March 26 – Jean-Étienne Despréaux, French dancer, choreographer and composer (b. 1748) • August 6 – Antonín Vranický, Bohemian violinist and composer (b. 1761) • August 28 – Antonín Kraft, cellist and composer (b. 1749) • October 3 – Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer (b. 1746) • date unknown – Marie Bigot, piano teacher (b. 1786) • probable • Mikhail Matinsky, scientist, writer and composer (b. 1750) • Louis Joseph Saint-Amans, composer (b. 1749) ==References==