1804 in music

1803 in music – 1804 in music – 1805 in music

See also: other events in 1804, 1804 in literature

Events

• Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major written
• Beethoven's Opus 85 Christus am Ölberge completed
• Beethoven angrily renames his Third Symphony from the Napoleon to the Eroica after Napoleon crowns himself emperor.

Classical music

• Louis Spohr – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D minor, Op. 2

Births

• March 14 – Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer
• March 30 – Salomon Sulzer, composer
• June 1 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer

Deaths

• April 28 – Hans Gram, composer