1811 in music

Events

 * None listed

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * Piano Trio No. 7 (the "Archduke")
 * Die Ruinen von Athen ("The Ruins of Athens")
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
 * Peter Casper Krossing – Symphony in C minor
 * Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur (oratorio)
 * Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14
 * George Onslow – Duo for Piano 4 hands no 1 in E minor
 * Ferdinand Ries
 * Horn Sonata, Op. 34
 * 3 Violin Sonatas, Op. 38
 * Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 42
 * String Quintet, Op. 68
 * Concerto for 2 Horns, WoO 19
 * Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major "Le coucou", Op. 49

Opera

 * Carl Maria von Weber – Abu Hassan

Births

 * January 21 – Mademoiselle Ambroisine, ballet dancer (d. 1882)
 * February 4 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder (d. 1899)
 * March 13 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, composer and pianist (d. 1870)
 * March 23 – Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer (d. 1891)
 * May 22 – Giulia Grisi, operatic soprano (d. 1869)
 * July 19 – Vincenz Lachner, composer (d. 1893)
 * August 5 – Ambroise Thomas, opera composer (d. 1896)
 * August 25 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer (d. 1885)
 * August 31 – Adolfina Fägerstedt, ballerina (d. 1902)
 * September – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (d. 1867)
 * September 29 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer (d. 1866)
 * October 16 – Gaetano Capocci, conductor and composer (d. 1898)
 * October 22 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (d. 1886)
 * October 24 – Ferdinand Hiller, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1885)
 * November 11 – François Delsarte, operatic tenor and singing teacher (d. 1871)
 * November 26 – Franz Brendel, music critic (d. 1868)
 * December 8 – Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (d. 1864)
 * December 23 – Yevdokiya Rostopchina, lyricist and noble (died 1858)
 * undated – Francis Hartwell Henslowe, public servant and composer (died 1878)
 * probable – James Hill, folk musician (d. 1853)

Deaths

 * February 27 – Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso, 78
 * March 19 – František Adam Míča, composer, 65
 * April 15 – Ernest Louis Muller, composer
 * May 12 – Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer and cellist, 72
 * July 13 – Pierre Laujon, chansonnier (b. 1727)
 * July 19 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
 * August 18 – Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
 * August 20 – Dorothea Wendling, operatic soprano, 75
 * September 6
 * Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
 * Ignaz Fränzl, violinist and composer, 75
 * September 14 – Johanna Löfblad, actress and singer (b. 1733)
 * December 7 – Ignaz Spangler, composer
 * date unknown
 * John Antes, composer, 71
 * Barbara Ployer, pianist (b. 1765)
 * Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
 * Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage, patron of Muzio Clementi, 70
 * Thomas Ebdon, composer and organist (b. 1738)