Events in Music
- Feb 2 Joseph Haydn's 102nd Symphony in B premieres
Music Premiere
Mar 29 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Jul 14 The French National Convention decrees "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle France's national anthem
Birthdays in Music
- Feb 21 Francisco Manuel da Silva, composer
- Mar 14 Robert Lucas Pearsall, English composer, born in Bristol, England (d. 1856)
- Mar 23 Leopold Jansa, Bohemian violinist, composer, and teacher, born in Wildenschwert, Austria-Hungary (now Ústí nad Orlicí, Czech Republic) (d. 1875)
- May 15 Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
- Aug 16 Heinrich August Marschner, German opera composer, born in Zittau, Saxony (d. 1861)
- Sep 17 Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer, born in Altamura, Bari, Italy (d. 1870)
- Sep 20 Charles Zeuner, German-American composer and organist, born in Eisleben, Saxony (d. 1857)
- Oct 26 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1872)
- Nov 24 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
- Nov 28 Adolf Bernhard Marx, German composer, born in Halle, Germany (d. 1866)
- Dec 8 Jacques-François Gallay, French horn player and composer, born in Perpignan, France (d. 1864)
Deaths in Music
- Jan 13 Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73
- Jan 19 Maria Teresa Agnesi, composer, dies at 74
- Jan 26 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 5th son of Johann Sebastian Bach, dies at 62
- Feb 1 Giacomo Insanguine, Italian organist & composer, dies at 66
- Mar 5 Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
- Jul 6 Georg Gottfried Petri, German composer, dies at 79
- Aug 19 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer, dies at 67
- Aug 31 François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess champion, dies at 68
- Nov 6 Jiří Antonín Benda, Czech composer and violinist, dies at 73
- Nov 19 Thomas Linley the elder, English musician and tenor, dies at 62