- Mar 1 Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, German composer, dies at 63
- Mar 4 Carl Leopold Röllig, German composer, glass-harmonica player, composer, and inventor (bowed pianos - orphica and xänorphika), dies at about 65 [birth date uncertain]
- Mar 20 Ignaz Malzat, composer, dies at 47
- Apr 28 Hans Gram, Danish composer, dies at 49
- Jun 3 Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, Belgian composer, dies at 35
- Jun 16 Johann Adam Hiller, German composer, dies at 75
- Jul 17 Christian Ernst Graf, Dutch composer, dies at 80
- Nov 19 Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian opera composer, dies at 75