The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.
Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
Muzio Clementi – Concerto for piano in C major
Joseph Haydn – Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War") and Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major
Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest
February 17 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (died 1867)
June 14 – Mathilda d'Orozco, composer (died 1863)
July 23 – Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868)
July 28 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (died 1859)
August 25 – James Lick, piano builder (died 1876)
September 3 – Henriette Widerberg, soprano (died 1872)
October 23 – Joseph Panny, composer and violinist (died 1838)
November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)
January 1 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician, 60
February 16 (or April 16) – Caterina Gabrielli, operatic soprano, 65
March 19 – Stephen Storace, composer, 33
June 8 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer, 80
October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso (born c.1748)
October 31 – Thomas Haxby, musical instrument maker, 67
date unknown
Luffman Atterbury, carpenter, builder and musician
Samuel Green, organ builder (born 1740)
Nicola Sabatino, composer (born 1705)
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