1812 in music

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Events

• May – The Royal Swedish Opera reopens after a 5-year gap.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Symphony no. 7 (Opus 92)
  • Symphony no. 8 (Opus 93)
  • Violin Sonata No. 10

Opera

• Gioachino Rossini
  • Ciro in Babilonia
  • Demetrio e Polibio
  • L'inganno felice
  • La scala di seta

Births

• January 14 – Karl Graedener, composer (d. 1883)
• January 21 – Eduard Tauwitz, composer (d. 1894)
• March 11 – William Vincent Wallace, composer (d. 1865)
• April 27 – Friedrich von Flotow, composer (d. 1883)
• May 14 – Emilie Mayer, composer (d. 1883)
• June 27 – John Pyke Hullah, composer and music teacher (d. 1884)
• October 1 – Johann Rufinatscha, composer, music theorist and teacher (d. 1893)
• November 28 – Ludvig Mathias Lindeman, composer (d. 1887)
• December 28 – Julius Rietz, cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)
• date unknown
  • Marie Pauline Åhman, harpsichordist
  • Sophie Löwe, operatic soprano (d. 1866)

Deaths

• February 9 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (b. 1754)
• March 20 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, pianist and composer (b. 1760)
• March 27 – Joachim Albertini, composer (b. 1748)
• May 21 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (b. 1773)
• June 15 – Anton Stadler, clarinet and basset horn player (b. 1753)
• July 17 – John Broadwood, piano manufacturer (b. 1732)
• July 24 – Joseph Schuster, composer (b. 1748)
• August 19 – Vincenzo Righini, composer, singer and kapellmeister (b. 1756)
• September 21 – Emanuel Schikaneder, impresario, actor, singer and librettist (b. 1751)
• December – Michel-Joseph Gebauer, instrumentalist, bandmaster and composer (b. 1763)
• December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer (b. 1744)
• date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer (b. 1746)