1816 in music
Template:Year nav topic5 This is a list of music-related events in 1816.
Events
- January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.<ref name="musicandhistory">MusicandHistory.com – 1816 Template:Webarchive. Accessed 24 November 2013</ref>
- January 12 – The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- February 12 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV.<ref>Beauvert, Thierry, Opera Houses of the World, The Vendome Press, New York, 1995. Template:ISBN</ref>
- February 20 – Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.<ref>Template:Almanacco</ref>
- March 21 – Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- April 9 – Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- April 29 – Luigi Cherubini's cantata Inno alla primavera, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- June 16 – In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- October 18 – Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- November 25 – Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
- Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99
- Piano Sonata No. 28
- Sehnsucht, WoO 146
- Luigi Cherubini – Requiem in C minor
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Septet No.1, Op. 74
- Conradin Kreutzer – String Quintet, Op. 62
- Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 92
- Joseph Mayseder – Polonaise No.3, Op. 12
- Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
- Ignaz Moscheles – Grande sonate, Op. 41
- George Onslow – 3 String Quartets, Op. 9
- Franz Schubert
- Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen, D. 343
- Stabat Mater in F minor
- Overture in B-flat major, D.470
- String Trio in B-flat major, D 471
- Lieder: Stimme der Liebe, D.412; 3 Gesänge des Harfners, Op. 12, D.478; Der Wanderer, D.489; Loda's Gespenst, D.150; Die Erwartung, D.159
- Jan Václav Voříšek – 6 Impromptus, Op. 7
- Carl Maria von Weber – Divertimento assai facile, Op. 38
Opera
- François Adrien Boieldieu
- La fête du village voisin
- Charles de France (with Ferdinand Hérold)
- Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
- Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
- Étienne Méhul – La journée aux aventures
- Gioachino Rossini
- Franz Schubert – Die Bürgschaft, D.435 (unfinished)
- Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo
- Louis Spohr – Faust<ref name="musicandhistory"/>
Births
- February 26 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher (d. 1897)
- March 19 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
- April 13 – William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
- April 26 – Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
- July 16 – Antoine François Marmontel, French pianist (died 1898)
- August 17 – Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
- September 4 – François Bazin, opera composer (d. 1878)
- November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian (d. 1876)
- November 24 – Matteo Salvi, composer (d. 1887)
- December 8 – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
- date unknown – Edward Edwards, musician and composer (d. 1897)
Deaths
- February 10 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (born 1741)
- February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (born 1763)
- March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (born 1740)
- March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (born 1724)
- May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
- May 25 – Samuel Webbe, composer (born 1740)
- June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (born 1740)
- July 31 – Josef Fiala, musician and composer (born 1748)
- December 15 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, patron of Beethoven (born 1772)
- date unknown – João José Baldi, pianist and composer (born 1770)