# 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)