1810 in music

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Events

• Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.
• Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – incidental music for Goethe's Egmont
• Friedrich Kuhlau – piano concerto

Opera

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Mathilde von Guise
• Gioacchino Rossini – La Cambiale di Matrimonio

Popular music

• Jesse Mercer - Cluster of Spiritual Songs

Births

• January 20 – Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (d. 1873)
• February 22 – Frédéric Chopin, composer, pianist (d. 1849)
• February 8 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer (d. 1836)
• May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
• June 8 – Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856)
• June 9 – Otto Nicolai, composer and conductor (d. 1849)
• August 6 – Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (d. 1890)
• November 7 – Ferenc Erkel, opera composer (d. 1893)
• November 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer (d. 1882)

Deaths

• January 7 – Joseph Lipavsky, composer
• April 8 – Venanzio Rauzzini, castrato singer, composer, pianist and teacher (b. 1746)
• November 19 – Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master (b. 1727)
• November 27 – Francesco Bianchi, opera composer (b. 1752)
• date unknown
  • Domenico Fischietti, composer (b. 1725)
  • John Garth, composer (b. 1721)