1806 in music

Events

• Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition
• Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
• The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
• Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
• Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
• The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• *Symphony No. 4
• *Piano Concerto No. 4
• *Violin Concerto
• *3 String Quartets, Op. 59
• *32 Variations in C minor
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
• *7 Hungarian Dances
• *12 Minuets
• Carl Maria von Weber – Concertino for Horn and Orchestra
• Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 5 "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43

Opera

• Étienne Méhul – ''Uthal''

Births

• January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano
• January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart"
• March 3 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist
• August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer
• September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician
• November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer
• December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer

Deaths

• January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer
• February 18 - Brigida Banti, operatic soprano
• February 23 – John Alcock, composer
• February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer
• March 16 – Giuseppe Colla, composer
• March 23 – George Pinto, composer
• June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor
• August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer
• date unknown
• *José de Larrañaga, organist and composer
• *Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer