1819 in music

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

  Deaths

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