1815 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Spanish classical guitarist Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.
• Summer – Gioachino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo. His first opera for this theatre, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, premieres here on October 4.
• December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Cello Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Op. 102. Published in 1817.
  • Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112, for chorus and orchestra
  • Zur Namensfeier overture, Op. 115
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Anton Reicha – Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in G minor
• Franz Schubert
  • Der Erlkönig
  • Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157

Opera

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

Births

• March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)
• 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 (born 1737)
• April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (born 1765) (suicide)
• May 21 – Roman Hofstetter, composer (born 1742)
• May 25 – Domenico Puccini, composer (born 1772)
• June 22 – William Reeve, theatre composer (born 1757)
• September 29 – Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (born 1737)
• October 3 – Daniel Belknap, farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher, one of the first American composers. (born 1771)
• November 15 – Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1774)
• November 28 – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (born 1745)
• December 14 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (born 1800) (murder)
• date unknown – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (born 1735)