1806 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1806.

Events

 * Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition
 * Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
 * The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
 * Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
 * Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
 * The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Symphony No. 4
 * Piano Concerto No. 4
 * Violin Concerto
 * 3 String Quartets, Op. 59
 * 32 Variations in C minor
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel
 * 7 Hungarian Dances
 * 12 Minuets
 * Carl Maria Von Weber – Concertino for Horn and Orchestra
 * Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 5 "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43

Opera

 * Étienne Méhul – Uthal

Births

 * January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854)
 * January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)
 * August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
 * September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837)
 * November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
 * December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)

Deaths

 * January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
 * February 18 - Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1755)
 * February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
 * February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738)
 * March 23 – George Pinto, composer (b. 1785)
 * June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731)
 * August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737)
 * date unknown
 * José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728)
 * Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)