1815 in music
# 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 (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 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)
