1815 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• March 24 - The Handel and Haydn Society is founded as an oratorio society in Boston by a group of Boston merchants and musicians
• Spanish classical guitarist Fernando Sor moves to London, England to try to garner some success there.
• Summer – Gioachino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo. His first opera for this theatre, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, premieres here on October 4.
• December 25 – The Handel and Haydn Society, the oldest continuously performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance, at the King's Chapel in Boston.

Classical music

• William Beale – "Come let us join the Roundelay"
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Cello Sonatas Nos. 4 and 5, Op. 102. Published in 1817.
  • 25 Scottish Songs, Op. 108
  • Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt, Op. 112, for chorus and orchestra
  • Zur Namensfeier overture, Op. 115
  • Leonore Prohaska, WoO 96
  • Es ist vollbracht, WoO 97
  • Die laute Klage, WoO 135
  • Des Krieger's Abschied, WoO 143
  • Das Geheimnis, WoO 145
  • 12 Songs of Various Nationalities, WoO 157
  • Glück zum neuen Jahr, WoO 165
  • Kurz ist der Schmerz, und ewig ist die Freude, WoO 166
• Leonhard von Call – 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op. 22
• Matthew Camidge – 6 Concertos for Organ, Op. 13
• Bartolommeo Campagnoli – Capricci, Op. 22
• Luigi Cherubini – Symphony in D major
• Carl Czerny – Variations brillantes, Op. 14
• Friedrich Ernst Fesca – Psalm 103, Op. 26
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Violin (or Flute) Sonata, Op. 64
• Franz Krommer – Concerto No.2 for 2 Clarinets, Op. 91
• Joseph Mayseder – String Quartet No.5, Op. 9
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Federico Moretti – "El amor y la amistad"
• Anton Reicha
  • Wind Quintet, Op. 91 No.1
  • Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in G minor
• Ferdinand Ries
  • The Dream, Op. 49
  • Piano Trio, Op. 63
• Franz Schubert
  • Dozens and Dozens of Lieder, canons, and choruses, most notably:
    • Mailied, D. 129, 199 and D. 202
    • Rastlose Liebe, D.138
    • An den Mond, D.193
    • Adelwold und Emma, D.211
    • Alles um Liebe, D.241
    • Die Bürgschaft, D.246
    • Heidenröslein, D.257
    • Erlkönig, D. 328
    • 6 Lieder, Op. posth. 118 (D. 233, 234, 221, 248, 270, 247)
  • Totus in corde langueo, D.136
  • 20 Waltzes, D.146
  • 10 Variations in F major, D.156
  • Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157 (and excerpt Allegro in E major, D.154)
  • Mass No.2, D.167 and Mass No.3, D.324
  • String Quartet No.9, D.173
  • Stabat Mater, D.175
  • Adagio in G major, D.178
  • Minuet in A minor, D.277a
  • Piano Sonata No. 2, D.279
  • 12 Ecossaises, D.299
  • Minuet in A major, D.334
  • 12 Ländler, D.681
  • Liebe säuseln die Blätter, D.988
• Louis Spohr – String Quartet No.8, Op. 29 No.2
• Johann Wilhelm Wilms – Sonata for Piano Four Hands, Op. 41

Opera

• Gioachino Rossini
  • Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
  • Torvaldo e Dorliska
• Franz Schubert
  • Fernando, D.220
  • Claudine von Villa Bella, D.239
  • Die Freunde von Salamanka, D.326
  • Der Vierjahrige Posten

Births

• January 22 – Ferdinand Praeger, composer, music teacher, pianist and writer (d. 1891)
• March 8 – Jean Delphin Alard, composer and musician (died 1888)
• March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (d. 1879)
• April 6 – Robert Volkmann, composer (d. 1883)
• April 12 – Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer (d. 1873)
• May 10 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler (d. 1896)
• June 6 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator of German literature (d. 1869)
• June 28 – Robert Franz, composer (d. 1892)
• July 30 – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer (d. 1870)
• August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer (d. 1882)
• September 4 – Mihály Mosonyi, arranger and composer (died 1870)
• September 17 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer (died 1868)
• October 17 – Emanuel Geibel, lyricist and playwright (died 1884)
• November – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer (d. 1879)
• December 25 – Temistocle Solera, opera composer and librettist (d. 1878)

Deaths

• February 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (born 1767)
• March 4 – Frances Abington, singer and actress (born 1737)
• April 8 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (born 1765) (suicide)
• May 21 – Roman Hofstetter, composer (born 1742)
• May 25 – Domenico Puccini, composer (born 1772)
• June 22 – William Reeve, theatre composer (born 1757)
• September 29 – Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (born 1737)
• October 3 – Daniel Belknap, farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher, one of the first American composers. (born 1771)
• November 15 – Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven, brother of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1774)
• November 28 – Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (born 1745)
• December 14 – Charles Luke Lennox, heir to banking company, pianist (born 1800) (murder)
• date unknown – Giovanni Bertati, librettist (born 1735)