1809 in music

List of years in music       (table)
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Events

• June 15 - Mozart's Requiem is performed at a memorial service for Joseph Haydn at the Schottenkirche, Vienna.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – "Harp" Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74; Piano concerto no. 5 ("Emperor") (completed 1810)
• François-Joseph Gossec – Symphonie à 17 parties

Opera

• Gaspare Spontini – Fernand Cortez

Births

• January 20 – Sebastián Iradier, composer (died 1865)
• February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, composer (died 1847)
• March 19 – Fredrik Pacius, conductor and composer (died 1891)
• March 31 – Otto Lindblad, composer (died 1864)
• April 13 - Aleksander Mirecki, violinist (died 1882)
• October 12 - John Liptrot Hatton, composer, conductor, pianist and singer (died 1886)
• October 22 – Federico Ricci, opera composer (died 1877)
• November 16 - Leopoldine Blahetka, pianist and composer (died 1885)

Deaths

• January 29 – Luigi Antonio Sabbatini, composer and music theorist (born 1732)
• February – Francesco Azopardi, composer (born 1748)
• March 7 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, organist, composer and music teacher (born 1736)
• April 17 – Johann Christian Kittel, organist and composer (born 1732)
• May 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (born 1732)
• July 3 – Joseph Quesnel, composer and writer (born 1746)
• July 24 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (born 1735)
• September 21 - Alexander Reinagle, composer, organist, and theater musician (born 1736)
• December 31 – Franz Ignaz Beck, composer (born 1734)