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EVENTS

December 22 - Ludwig Van Beethoven puts on a marathon Benefit Concert in Vienna , including the first performances of the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies and the Choral Fantasy

Harvard forms its own orchestra.

POPULAR MUSIC

"(Believe Me, if All) Those Endearing Young Charms" by Thomas Moore and Sir John Stevenson

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Ludwig Van Beethoven - ''Symphony no. 5''

Bernhard Henrik Crusell - ''Clarinet Concerto no. 2''

Carl Maria Von Weber - ''Momento capriccioso''

BIRTHS

March 24 - Maria Malibran , soprano

May 15 - Michael William Balfe

December 26 - Albert Grisar

Michael Costa

Auguste Franchomme

DEATHS

''date unknown'' - Gaetano Appolino Baldassare Vestris , dancer