1811 in music

Events

• ''None listed''

Popular music

• "Bubble, Squeak and Pettitoes" aka "Mr. Grig and Mrs. Snap" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in ''Harlequin and Blue Beard''

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
• *Piano Trio No. 7
• *Die Ruinen von Athen
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
• Peter Casper Krossing – Symphony in C minor
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14
• George Onslow – Duo for Piano 4 hands no 1 in E minor
• Ferdinand Ries
• *Horn Sonata, Op. 34
• *3 Violin Sonatas, Op. 38
• *Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 42
• *String Quintet, Op. 68
• *Concerto for 2 Horns, WoO 19
• Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major "Le coucou", Op. 49

Opera

• Carl Maria von Weber – ''Abu Hassan''

Births

• January 21 – Mademoiselle Ambroisine, ballet dancer
• February 4 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder
• March 13 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, composer and pianist
• March 23 – Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer
• May 22 – Giulia Grisi, operatic soprano
• July 19 – Vincenz Lachner, composer
• August 5 – Ambroise Thomas, opera composer
• August 25 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer
• August 31 – Adolfina Fägerstedt, ballerina
• September – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer
• September 29 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer
• October 16 – Gaetano Capocci, conductor and composer
• October 22 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer
• October 24 – Ferdinand Hiller, pianist, composer and conductor
• November 11 – François Delsarte, operatic tenor and singing teacher
• November 26 – Franz Brendel, music critic
• December 8 – Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer
• December 23 – Yevdokiya Rostopchina, lyricist and noble
• undated – Francis Hartwell Henslowe, public servant and composer
• probable – James Hill, folk musician

Deaths

• February 27 – Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso, 78
• March 19 – František Adam Míča, composer, 65
• April 15 – Ernest Louis Muller, composer
• May 12 – Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer and cellist, 72
• July 13 – Pierre Laujon, chansonnier
• July 19 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
• August 18 – Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
• August 20 – Dorothea Wendling, operatic soprano, 75
• September 6
• *Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
• *Ignaz Fränzl, violinist and composer, 75
• September 14 – Johanna Löfblad, actress and singer
• 13 October – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
• December 7 – Ignaz Spangler, composer
• date unknown
• *John Antes, composer, 71
• *Barbara Ployer, pianist
• *Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
• *Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage, patron of Muzio Clementi, 70
• *Thomas Ebdon, composer and organist