Events in Music
- Feb 2 Joseph Haydn's 102nd Symphony in B premieres
Event of Interest
Mar 29 Ludwig van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as a pianist in Vienna
Ludwig van Beethoven
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, composer
- May 15 Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
- Aug 16 Heinrich August Marschner, composer
- Sep 17 Giuseppi Saverio Rafaele Mercadante, composer
- Sep 20 Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer
- Oct 26 Nikolaos Mantzaros, Italian-Greek composer, born in Corfu Island, Greece (d. 1972)
- Nov 24 Josif Josifovich Genishta, composer
- Nov 28 Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer
- Dec 8 Jacques Francois Gallay, composer
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, composer, dies at 66
- Mar 5 Josef Reicha, composer, dies at 42
- Jul 6 Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
- Aug 19 Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer, dies at 67
- Aug 31 Francois-Andre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 68
- Nov 6 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
- Nov 19 Thomas Linley the elder, English musician and tenor, dies at 62