1815 in music

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 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
• 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
• *Totus in corde langueo, D.136
• *20 Waltzes, D.146
• *10 Variations in F major, D.156
• *Piano Sonata in E major, D. 157
• *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
• March 8 – Jean Delphin Alard, composer and musician
• March 11 – Anna Bochkoltz, German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer
• April 6 – Robert Volkmann, composer
• April 12 – Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer
• May 10 – Anders Ljungqvist, fiddler
• June 6 – Giovanni Peruzzini, Italian opera librettist, poet, and translator of German literature
• June 28 – Robert Franz, composer
• July 30 – Herman Severin Løvenskiold, composer
• August 16 – Madame Céleste, dancer
• September 4 – Mihály Mosonyi, arranger and composer
• September 17 – Halfdan Kjerulf, Norwegian composer
• October 17 – Emanuel Geibel, lyricist and playwright
• November – Adelaide Kemble, opera singer
• December 25 – Temistocle Solera, opera composer and librettist

Deaths

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