1799 in music

Events

 * Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"); Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2)
 * Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody
 * Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
 * Antonio Salieri – "Der Tyroler Landsturm", secular cantata for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, double choir, orchestra and speaker
 * Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funèbre
 * Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto in G major, WoO 9

Opera

 * Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
 * Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
 * Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

Births

 * February 25 – Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, music theorist (died 1858)
 * March 21 – Charles Mayer, pianist and composer (died 1862)
 * April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (died 1860)
 * May 26 – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, novelist and lyricist (died 1837)
 * May 27 – Fromental Halévy, composer (died 1862)
 * May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879)
 * June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839)
 * September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869)
 * October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868)
 * December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)

Deaths

 * March 28 – Bendix Friedrich Zinck I, composer (born 1715)
 * April 1 – Narcís Casanoves i Bertran, composer (born 1747)
 * April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
 * May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
 * May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
 * June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
 * June 18 – Johann Andre, composer (born 1741)
 * August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
 * September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
 * October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
 * October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
 * date unknown
 * Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747)
 * Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)