1809 in music

Events

 * June 15 – Mozart's Requiem is performed at a memorial service for Joseph Haydn at the Schottenkirche, Vienna.
 * Stalybridge Old Band formed in the north of England, perhaps the first civilian brass band in the world.

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Piano Concerto No.5, Op. 73 ("Emperor")
 * "Harp" Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74
 * 6 Songs, Op. 75
 * Six variations on an original theme (the Turkish March from The Ruins of Athens) in D major, Op. 76
 * Fantasia for Piano in G minor, Op. 77
 * Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78
 * Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Op. 79
 * Four Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82
 * Egmont, Op .84 (incidental music for the play by Goethe)
 * Die laute Klage, WoO 135 (or 1815)
 * Lied aus der Ferne, WoO 137
 * Der Jüngling in der Fremde, WoO 138
 * Der Liebende, WoO 139
 * François-Joseph Gossec – Symphonie à 17 parties
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Salve Regina, WoO 18
 * Etienne Mehul – Symphony No. 1 in G minor
 * Ferdinand Ries
 * Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 23
 * Clarinet Trio in B-flat major, Op. 28
 * Clarinet Sonata, Op. 29
 * String Quartet, Op. 70 No.2
 * Piano Trio, Op. 28


 * Carl Maria von Weber
 * 6 Pièces, Op. 10a
 * Serenade, J.65
 * Andante e rondo ongarese, J.79

Opera

 * Gaspare Spontini – Fernand Cortez

Births

 * January 20 – Sebastián Iradier, composer (died 1865)
 * February 3 – Felix Mendelssohn, composer (died 1847)
 * March 19 – Fredrik Pacius, conductor and composer (died 1891)
 * March 31 – Otto Lindblad, composer (died 1864)
 * April 13 – Aleksander Mirecki, violinist (died 1882)
 * August 6 – Alfred Tennyson, lyricist and poet (died 1892)
 * August 21 – Hanna Brooman, composer, translator and educator (died 1887)
 * August 30 – Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer (died 1863)
 * October 2 – Anton Emil Titl, composer (died 1882)
 * October 12 – John Liptrot Hatton, composer, conductor, pianist and singer (died 1886)
 * October 15 – Aleksey Koltsov, lyricist and poet (died 1842)
 * October 21 – Daniel Friedrich Eduard Wilsing, composer (died 1893)
 * October 22 – Federico Ricci, opera composer (died 1877)
 * November 16 – Leopoldine Blahetka, pianist and composer (died 1885)
 * November 26 – Auguste-François Morel, composer (died 1881)

Deaths

 * January 29 – Luigi Antonio Sabbatini, composer and music theorist (born 1732)
 * February – Francesco Azopardi, composer (born 1748)
 * March 7 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, organist, composer and music teacher (born 1736)
 * April 17 – Johann Christian Kittel, organist and composer (born 1732)
 * April 18 – Birgitte Winther, opera singer (born 1751)
 * May 1 – Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel, librettist and writer (born 1736)
 * May 31 – Joseph Haydn, composer (born 1732)
 * July 2 or (3) – Joseph Quesnel, composer and writer (born 1746)
 * July 24 – Johann Gottfried Eckard, pianist and composer (born 1735)
 * September 21 – Alexander Reinagle, composer, organist, and theater musician (born 1736)
 * December 31 – Franz Ignaz Beck, composer (born 1734)