# 1815 in music
## Events

* March 24 - The Handel and Haydn Society is founded as an oratorio society in Boston by a group of Boston merchants and musicians
* Spanish classical guitarist Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.
* Summer – Gioachino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo. His first opera for this theatre, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, premieres here on October 4.
* December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston.

## Classical music

* William Beale – "Come let us join the Roundelay"
* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Cello Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Op. 102. Published in 1817.
** 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
** Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112, for chorus and orchestra
** Zur Namensfeier overture, Op. 115
** Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96
** Es ist vollbracht, WoO 97
** Die laute Klage, WoO 135
** Des Krieger's Abschied, WoO 143
** Das Geheimnis, WoO 145
** 12 Songs of Various Nationalities, WoO 157
** Glück zum neuen Jahr, WoO 165
** Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude, WoO 166
* Leonhard von Call – 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op. 22
* Matthew Camidge – 6 Concertos for Organ, Op. 13
* Bartolommeo Campagnoli – Capricci, Op. 22
* Luigi Cherubini – Symphony in D major
* Carl Czerny – Variations brillantes, Op. 14
* Friedrich Ernst Fesca – Psalm 103, Op. 26
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Violin (or Flute) Sonata, Op. 64
* Franz Krommer – Concerto No.2 for 2 Clarinets, Op. 91
* Joseph Mayseder – String Quartet No.5, Op. 9
* Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
* Federico Moretti – "El amor y la amistad"
* Anton Reicha
** Wind Quintet, Op. 91 No.1
** Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in G minor
* Ferdinand Ries
** The Dream, Op. 49
** Piano Trio, Op. 63
* Franz Schubert
** Dozens and Dozens of Lieder, canons, and choruses, most notably:
*** Mailied, D. 129, 199 and D. 202
*** Rastlose Liebe, D.138
*** An den Mond, D.193
*** Adelwold und Emma, D.211
*** Alles um Liebe, D.241
*** Die Bürgschaft, D.246
*** Heidenröslein, D.257
*** Erlkönig, D. 328
*** 6 Lieder, Op. posth. 118 (D. 233, 234, 221, 248, 270, 247)
** Totus in corde langueo, D.136
** 20 Waltzes, D.146
** 10 Variations in F major, D.156
** Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157 (and excerpt Allegro in E major, D.154)
** Mass No.2, D.167 and Mass No.3, D.324
** String Quartet No.9, D.173
** Stabat Mater, D.175
** Adagio in G major, D.178
** Minuet in A minor, D.277a
** Piano Sonata No. 2, D.279
** 12 Ecossaises, D.299
** Minuet in A major, D.334
** 12 Ländler, D.681
** Liebe säuseln die Blätter, D.988
* Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.8, Op. 29 No.2
* Johann Wilhelm Wilms – Sonata for Piano Four Hands, Op. 41

## Opera

* Gioachino Rossini
** Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
** Torvaldo e Dorliska
* Franz Schubert
** Fernando, D.220
** Claudine von Villa Bella, D.239
** Die Freunde von Salamanka, D.326
** Der Vierjahrige Posten

## Births

* January 22 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (d. 1891)
* March 8 – Jean Delphin Alard, composer and musician (died 1888)
* March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)
* April 6 – Robert Volkmann, composer (d. 1883)
* April 12 – Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer (d. 1873)
* May 10 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (d. 1896)
* June 6 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator of German literature (d. 1869)
* June 28 – Robert Franz, composer (d. 1892)
* July 30 – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (d. 1870)
* August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer (d. 1882)
* September 4 – Mihály Mosonyi, arranger and composer (died 1870)
* September 17 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (died 1868)
* October 17 – Emanuel Geibel, lyricist and playwright (died 1884)
* November – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer (d. 1879)
* December 25 – Temistocle Solera, opera composer and librettist (d. 1878)

## Deaths

* February 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (born 1767)
* March 4 – Frances Abington, singer and actress (born 1737)
* April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (born 1765) (suicide)
* May 21 – Roman Hofstetter, composer (born 1742)
* May 25 – Domenico Puccini, composer (born 1772)
* June 22 – William Reeve, theatre composer (born 1757)
* September 29 – Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (born 1737)
* October 3 – Daniel Belknap, farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher, one of the first American composers. (born 1771)
* November 15 – Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1774)
* November 28 – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (born 1745)
* December 14 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (born 1800) (murder)
* date unknown – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (born 1735)