1824 in music

Events

• May 7 – First performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.
• June 21 – Franz Liszt makes his London debut. Muzio Clementi, Ferdinand Ries, Friedrich Kalkbrenner and Cipriani Potter are in the audience.
• Baluswami Dikshitar is appointed State Vidwan of Ettayapuram.
• Franz Liszt commences theory lessons with Antonin Reicha and composition lessons with Ferdinando Paer.
• First Norfolk and Norwich Festival held in England

  Popular Music

• Robert Stephen Hawker – "The Song of the Western Men"
• "O Tannenbaum" lyrics published by Ernst Anschutz

  Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• *Missa Solemnis
• *Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral"
• Hector Berlioz – Messe solennelle
• Ferdinando Carulli – 18 Petits morceaux, Op. 211
• Frederic Chopin – Mazurka Op. 7 No. 4
• Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Sonata, Op. 63
• Carl Czerny – Piano Sonata Nos.3, 4, and 5, Op. 57, 65 and 76
• Friedrich Ernst Fesca – String Quartet, Op.34
• Fanny Hensel – Sonata for Piano in C minor
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Introduction et rondo brillant, Op. 98
• Friedrich Kuhlau
• *3 Grand Solos, Op. 57
• *3 Sonatinas, Op. 59
• *3 Sonatas with Variations, Op. 60
• Kaspar Kummer – Flute Trio, Op. 24
• Maximillian Joseph Leidesdorf – Horn Sonata, Op. 164
• Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 11
• Bernhard Molique – Flute Concerto, Op. 69
• George Onslow
• *Piano Trio No.8, Op. 26
• *Piano Trio No.9, Op. 27
• Antoine Reicha – 6 Piano Trios, Op. 101
• Ferdinand Ries – Rule Britannia, Op. 116
• Franz Schubert: List of compositions by Franz Schubert, 799–822, including:
• * Octet, D 803
• * String Quartet No. 13, D 804
• * String Quartet No. 14, D 810
• * Sonata in C major for piano four-hands, D 812
• * "Gebet", D 815
• * Arpeggione Sonata, D 821

  Opera

• Gaetano Donizetti – L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
• Friedrich Kuhlau – Lulu
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Il crociato in Egitto
• Waldemar Thrane – Fjeldeventyret
• Nicola Vaccai
• *Pietro il grande
• *La pastorella feudataria

  Births

• January 22 – Josef Leopold Zvonař, composer, music teacher and critic
• March 2 – Bedřich Smetana, composer
• March 7 – Robert Ambrose, organist and composer
• April 22 – Richard Wüerst, composer and music teacher
• June 13 – Julius Eichberg, composer
• June 23 – Carl Reinecke, pianist, conductor and composer
• August 1 – John P. Ordway, doctor, composer, music entrepreneur, and politician
• August 19 – Georg Goltermann, cellist and composer
• September 4 – Anton Bruckner, composer
• September 8 – Jaime Nunó, composer of the Mexican national anthem
• November 25 – Antonio Ghislanzoni, librettist
• date unknown
• *François Xavier Bazin, bow-maker
• *Velvel Zbarjer, Brody singer
• *Charlotta Norberg, ballerina
• *Frederick Ellard

  Deaths

• January 7 – Faustino Arévalo, hymnographer
• February 1 – Maria Theresia von Paradis, musician and composer
• March 3 – Giovanni Battista Viotti, violinist and composer
• April 18 – Edward Jones, royal harpist
• June 21 – Étienne Aignan, opera librettist
• September 16 – Giacomo Tritto, opera composer
• December 5 – Anne Louise Boyvin d'Hardancourt Brillon de Jouy, harpsichordist
• date unknown
• *Nicolas Lupot, luthier
• *Alexander Uber, cellist and composer
• probable – János Bihari, violinist