1815 in music

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Events

• Gioacchino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo.

• Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.

Classical music

• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Anton Reicha – Concerto for Clarinet in G minor
• Franz Schubert – Der Erlkönig

Opera

• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra
  • Torvaldo e Dorliska
• Franz Schubert – Der Vierjahrige Posten

Births

• April 6 – Robert Volkmann, composer (d. 1883)
• April 12 – Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer (d. 1873)
• June 28 – Robert Franz, composer (d. 1892)
• July 30 – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (d. 1870)
• August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer (d. 1882)
• November – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer (d. 1879)
• December 25 – Temistocle Solera, opera composer and librettist (d. 1878)

Deaths

• March 4 – Frances Abington, singer and actress (b. 1737)
• April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (b. 1765) (suicide)
• May 21 – Roman Hofstetter, composer (b. 1742)
• May 25 – Domenico Puccini, composer (b. 1772)
• June 22 – William Reeve, theatre composer (b. 1757)
• September 29 – Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (b. 1737)
• November 28 – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (b. 1745)
• December 14 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (b. 1800) (murder)