1810 in music
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This is a list of music-related events in 1810.
Events
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- April 27 - Ludwig van Beethoven composes one of his most popular compositions, the piano piece Für Elise.
- Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen, to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.
- Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- March for Military Band, WoO 20
- Polonaise for Military Band, WoO 21
- Ecossaise for Military Band, WoO 22
- Ecossaise for Military Band, WoO 23
- Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for piano, "Für Elise", WoO 59
- 25 Irish Songs, WoO 152
- 26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155
- Egmont, Op. 84, overture and incidental music (first performed, composed 1809)
- 3 Lieder, Op. 83
- String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, "Serioso", Op. 95
- Piano Sonata #26 (Les Adieux)
- Joseph Eybler – Die vier letzen Dinge (oratorio)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 50
- Friedrich Kuhlau – Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 7
- Etienne Mehul – Symphony No. 4 in E major
- Ferdinand Ries
- Violin Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 24
- Piano Trio, Op. 28
- Bernard Romberg – Trauer-Symphonie, Op .23
- Louis Spohr
- Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op. 57
- Violin Concerto No.10, Op. 62
- Christoph Bernard Verspoell – "Menschen, die ihr wart verloren"
- Carl Maria von Weber – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 11
Opera
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Mathilde von Guise
- Gioacchino Rossini – La Cambiale di Matrimonio
- Carl Maria von Weber – Silvana
Publications
- Johann Christoph Kuhnau – Die blinden Tonkünstler
Births
- February 3 – Ludwig August Frankl, lyricist and poet (died 1894)
- February 5 – Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (died 1880){{cite web|url=http://www.snl.no/Ole_Bull |title=Ole Bull (Store norske leksikon) |publisher=Snl.no |date=2013-02-27 |access-date=2013-04-07}}
- February 22 – Frédéric Chopin, composer, pianist (died 1849){{cite book |last=Zamoyski |first=Adam |author-link=Adam Zamoyski |year=2010 |title=Chopin: Prince of the Romantics |publisher=HarperCollins |location=London |isbn=978-0-00-735182-4 | pages=4–5}}
- February 8 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer (died 1836){{cite book|author=Randel Don|title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|year=1996|isbn=9780674372993|page=118}}
- March 15 – Carl Linger (died 1862)
- May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (died 1874){{cite book|author1=Constance Green|author2=David Mason Greene|title=Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers|publisher=Doubleday|year=1985|isbn=9780385142786|page=571}}
- May 5 – Eugène Cormon, librettist (died 1903)
- May 18 – Francesco Maria Piave, Italian librettist (died 1876)
- May 20 – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter (died 1860)
- June 7 – Friedrich Julius Hammer, poet and librettist (died 1862)
- June 8 – Robert Schumann, composer (died 1856){{cite book|author=John Daverio|title=Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8yLxsRJucoC&pg=PT29|date=10 April 1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-983931-5|pages=29}}
- June 9 – Otto Nicolai, composer and conductor (died 1849){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Nicolaï, Otto |volume=19 |page=662}}
- June 17 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, lyricist and poet (died 1876){{cite book|title=The Men of the Time: Or, Sketches of Living Notables|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_C2RkAAAAMAAJ|year=1852|publisher=Redfield|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_C2RkAAAAMAAJ/page/n222 217]}}
- June 19 – Ferdinand David, editor and musician (died 1873)
- August 6 – Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (died 1890)
- August 12 – Alfred Novello, music publisher (died 1896)
- September 22 – Paul Barroilhet, operatic baritone (died 1871)
- October 18 – Giovanni Matteo Mario, operatic tenor (died 1883)
- October 24 – Carl Baermann, composer (died 1885)
- November 7 – Ferenc Erkel, opera composer (died 1893)
- November 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer (died 1882)
- December 21 - Ludwig Schuncke, German pianist and composer
Deaths
- January 7 – Joseph Lipavsky, composer
- March 29 – John Garth, composer (born 1721)
- April 8 – Venanzio Rauzzini, castrato singer, composer, pianist and teacher (born 1746){{cite book|author=Paul Francis Rice|title=Venanzio Rauzzini in Britain: Castrato, Composer, and Cultural Leader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iVW3CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA280|year=2015|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-1-58046-532-8|pages=280}}
- July 19 – Joseph Stephenson, composer of West Gallery music (born 1723){{cite book|chapter=Joseph Stephenson|title=The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. |publisher=Canterbury Press|access-date= 9 October 2017|url=http://www.hymnology.co.uk/j/joseph-stephenson}}
- November 19 – Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master (born 1727){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Noverre, Jean Georges|volume=19|page=839}}
- November 27 – Francesco Bianchi, opera composer (born 1752)
- date unknown
- Margaretha Christina Åbergsson, ballet dancer
- Anna Davia, opera singer (born 1743)
- Domenico Fischietti, composer (born 1725)