- Jan 3 Theodor Uhlig, composer, dies at 30
- Apr 11 Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, French pianist, music director, and composer, dies at 84
- Apr 15 Johann Leopold Fuchs, German composer, dies at 67
- May 9 Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, German composer, dies at 73
- Aug 6 Josif Josifovich Genishta, Russian composer, dies at 57
- Aug 15 Giovanni Battista Polledro, Italian composer, dies at 72
- Aug 18 Peter Lichtenthal, Austrian composer, musicologist, and physician, dies at 73
- Sep 4 Jonathan Blewitt, English organist and composer, dies at 71
- Oct 3 George Onslow, British-French composer, chiefly of chamber music, dies at 69
- Oct 29 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, French pianist, music teacher, and composer, dies at 68
- Oct 29 William Richard Bexfield, English composer, dies at 29
- Oct 30 Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Triple Oratorio:, Putifar-Giuseppe-Giacobbe), dies at 66
- Nov 4 Alexander Stadtfeld, German composer, dies at 27
- Nov 23 Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer, dies at 67
- Nov 23 [Johann Christian] Friedrich Schneider, German composer and conductor, dies at 67
- Dec 5 Johann Peter Heuschkel, German oboist and composer, dies at 80
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