Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|Pathetique); Piano Sonata 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2)
Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody
Joseph Haydn
String Quartets Op. 77
The Creation
Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funebre
Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle
April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (died 1860)
May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879)
June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839)
September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869)
October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868)
December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)
April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
October 24 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
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Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747)
Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)
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