1819 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1819.

Events

 * February 23 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel is appointed Kapellmeister to the Weimar court, where he would remain for the rest of his life.
 * Breitkopf & Härtel publishes piano music by Maria Szymanowska.
 * Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.
 * Franz Liszt plays for Carl Czerny for the first time. The latter is impressed and agrees to take him on as a pupil.

Classical music

 * Hector Berlioz – La Dépit de la bergère, H 7
 * João Domingos Bomtempo – Requiem in C Minor
 * Muzio Clementi – The publication of Gradus ad Parnassum Volume II is entered at Stationer's Hall, London on April 16.
 * Louis-Francois Dauprat – 3 Mélodies, Op. 25
 * Friedrich Ernst Fesca – String Quartet, Op. 12
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel
 * Piano Sonata No.5, Op. 81
 * Piano Trio in E major, Op. 83
 * Friedrich Kuhlau – 8 Variations on a Danish Song, Op. 16
 * Ignaz Moscheles – Grande Sonate, Op. 47
 * George Onslow – Violin Sonata No.4, Op. 15
 * Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major
 * Andreas Romberg – Sinfonia alla turca, Op. 51
 * Franz Schubert – Trout Quintet
 * Maria Szymanowska
 * Caprice sur la romance de Joconde
 * Grande valse
 * 6 Minuets
 * Polonaise sur l'air national favori du feu Prince Joseph Poniatowsky
 * Carl Maria von Weber
 * Rondo brillante, Op. 62
 * Polacca brillante, Op. 72

Opera

 * Saverio Mercadante – L'Apoteosi d'Ercole
 * Giovanni Pacini
 * Il falegname di Livonia
 * La sposa fedele
 * Andreas Romberg – Die Großmut des Scipio
 * Gioachino Rossini
 * Bianca e Falliero
 * La donna del lago
 * Eduardo e Cristina
 * Ermione

Births

 * January 12 – Giovanni Guicciardi, Italian opera singer (d. 1883)
 * January 18 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman, opera singer (d. 1879)
 * February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (d. 1890)
 * February 24 – Emilia Uggla, pianist (d. 1855)
 * 13 March – Henriette Wienecke, composer (d. 1907)
 * April 4 – Lucile Grahn, ballerina (d. 1907)
 * April 7 – Hubert Léonard, composer and musician (died 1890)
 * April 11 – Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
 * April 18 – Franz von Suppé, composer (d. 1895)
 * May 3 – Nicola De Giosa, Italian composer (died 1885)
 * May 5
 * Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (d. 1881)
 * Stanisław Moniuszko, composer, conductor and teacher (d. 1872)
 * May 13 – Henry Farmer, British composer (died 1891)
 * June 12 – Wilhelmina Fundin, Swedish operatic soprano (d. 1911)
 * June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)
 * July 3 – Théodore Gouvy, composer (d. 1898)
 * July 26 – Justin Holland, classical guitarist and civil rights activist (d. 1887)
 * September 13 – Clara Schumann, pianist, composer (d. 1896)
 * September 15 – Jules Étienne Pasdeloup, composer and conductor (died 1887)
 * October 20 – Carl Mikuli, pianist, conductor, composer (d. 1897)
 * October 23 – Isaac Baker Woodbury, music collector and composer (died 1858)
 * date unknown – Ebba d'Aubert, Swedish pianist (d. 1860)

Deaths

 * March 9 – János Fusz, composer (b. 1777)
 * April 29 – Louis-Augustin Richer, classical singer, singing master and composer (b. 1740)
 * May 16 – Micaela Villegas, Peruvian entertainer (b. 1748)
 * June 20 – Maria Anna Braunhofer, operatic soprano (b. 1748)
 * June 21 – Georg Druschetzky, composer (b. 1745)
 * June 30 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians (b. 1746)
 * September 7 – Jean-Louis Duport, cellist (b. 1749)
 * December 29 – Josepha Weber, operatic soprano (b. 1758)
 * date unknown – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer (b. 1744)