1819 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1819.

Events

• February 23 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel is appointed Kapellmeister to the Weimar court, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
• Breitkopf & Härtel publishes piano music by Maria Szymanowska.
• Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.
• Franz Liszt plays for Carl Czerny for the first time. The latter is impressed and agrees to take him on as a pupil.

Classical music

• Hector Berlioz – La Dépit de la bergère, H 7
• João Domingos Bomtempo – Requiem in C Minor
• Muzio Clementi – The publication of Gradus ad Parnassum Volume II is entered at Stationer's Hall, London on April 16.
• Louis-Francois Dauprat – 3 Mélodies, Op. 25
• Friedrich Ernst Fesca – String Quartet, Op. 12
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  • Piano Sonata No.5, Op. 81
  • Piano Trio in E major, Op. 83
• Friedrich Kuhlau – 8 Variations on a Danish Song, Op. 16
• Ignaz Moscheles – Grande Sonate, Op. 47
• George Onslow – Violin Sonata No.4, Op. 15
• Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major
• Andreas Romberg – Sinfonia alla turca, Op. 51
• Franz Schubert – Trout Quintet
• Maria Szymanowska
  • Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
  • Grande valse
  • 6 Minuets
  • Polonaise sur l'air national favori du feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
• Carl Maria von Weber
  • Rondo brillante, Op. 62
  • Polacca brillante, Op. 72

Opera

• Saverio Mercadante – L'Apoteosi d'Ercole
• Giovanni Pacini
  • Il falegname di Livonia
  • La sposa fedele
• Andreas Romberg – Die Großmut des Scipio
• Gioachino Rossini
  • Bianca e Falliero
  • La donna del lago
  • Eduardo e Cristina
  • Ermione

Births

• January 12 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (d. 1883)
• January 18 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman, opera singer (d. 1879)
• February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (d. 1890)
• February 24 – Emilia Uggla, pianist (d. 1855)
• 13 March – Henriette Wienecke, composer (d. 1907)
• April 4 – Lucile Grahn, ballerina (d. 1907)
• April 7 – Hubert Léonard, composer and musician (died 1890)
• April 11 – Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
• April 18 – Franz von Suppé, composer (d. 1895)
• May 3 – Nicola De Giosa, Italian composer (died 1885)
• May 5
  • Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (d. 1881)
  • Stanisław Moniuszko, composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1872)
• May 13 – Henry Farmer, British composer (died 1891)
• June 12 – Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1911)
• June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)
• July 3 – Théodore Gouvy, composer (d. 1898)
• July 26 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (d. 1887)
• September 13 – Clara Schumann, pianist, composer (d. 1896)
• September 15 – Jules Étienne Pasdeloup, composer and conductor (died 1887)
• October 20 – Carl Mikuli, pianist, conductor, composer (d. 1897)
• October 23 – Isaac Baker Woodbury, music collector and composer (died 1858)
• date unknown – Ebba d'Aubert, Swedish pianist (d. 1860)

Deaths

• March 9 – János Fusz, composer (b. 1777)
• April 29 – Louis-Augustin Richer, classical singer, singing master and composer (b. 1740)
• May 16 – Micaela Villegas, Peruvian entertainer (b. 1748)
• June 20 – Maria Anna Braunhofer, operatic soprano (b. 1748)
• June 21 – Georg Druschetzky, composer (b. 1745)
• June 30 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians (b. 1746)
• September 7 – Jean-Louis Duport, cellist (b. 1749)
• December 29 – Josepha Weber, operatic soprano (b. 1758)
• date unknown – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer (b. 1744)

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