1816 in music

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This is a list of music-related events in 1816.

Events

• January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
• January 12 – The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.
• February 12 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV.
• February 20 – Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
• March 21 – Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.
• April 9 – Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.
• April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.
• April 29 – Luigi Cherubini's cantata Inno alla primavera, commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.
• June 16 – In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II.
• July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.
• October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.
• October 18 – Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.
• November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.
• November 25 – Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 28
• Luigi Cherubini – Requiem in C minor
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Franz Schubert
  • Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen
  • Stabat Mater in F minor
  • String Trio in B-flat major, D 471

Opera

• Michele Carafa – Gabriella di Vergy
• Gaetano Donizetti – Il Pigmalione
• Ferdinand Hérold & François Adrien Boieldieu – Charles de France
• Étienne Méhul – La journée aux aventures
• Gioachino Rossini – Il Barbiere di Siviglia ; Otello
• Carlo Soliva – La Testa di Bronzo
• Louis Spohr – Faust

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)
• August 17 – Benjamin Bilse, conductor and composer (d. 1902)
• 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 (born 1741)
• February 19 – Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (born 1763)
• March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi, composer (born 1740)
• March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb, conductor and composer (born 1724)
• May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard, ballerina (born 1743)
• May 25 – Samuel Webbe, composer (born 1740)
• June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello, composer (born 1740)
• July 31 – Josef Fiala, musician and composer (born 1748)
• December 15 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowicz, patron of Beethoven (born 1772)
• date unknown – João José Baldi, pianist and composer (born 1770)