1816 in music

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Events

• Louise Reichardt becomes the first woman conductor when she takes charge of a performance of work by Handel in Lübeck.
• Carl Maria von Weber is appointed Kappellmeister at Dresden.

Classical music

• Piano Sonata No. 28 – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Requiem in C-minor – Luigi Cherubini
• Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen – Franz Schubert

Opera

• Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
• Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
• Ferdinand Hérold & François Adrien Boieldieu – Charles de France
• Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Otello
• Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo

Births

• February 26 – Franz Krenn, composer and music teacher (d. 1897)
• March 19 – Johannes Verhulst, conductor and composer (d. 1891)
• April 13 – William Sterndale Bennett, pianist and composer (d. 1875)
• April 26 – Eugène Albert, woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)
• September 4 – François Bazin, opera composer (d. 1878)
• November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros, composer and music historian (d. 1876)
• November 24 – Matteo Salvi, composer (d. 1887)
• December 8 – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
• date unknown – Edward Edwards, musician and composer (d. 1897)

Deaths

• February 10 – Jean Paul Egide Martini, composer (b. 1741)
• March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (b. 1741)
• March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (b. 1724)
• May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (b. 1743)
• May 25 – Samuel Webbe, composer (b. 1740)
• June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (b. 1740)
• July 31 – Josef Fiala, musician and composer (b. 1748)
• date unknown
  • Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (b. 1763)
  • João José Baldi, pianist and composer (b. 1770)