1819 in music

Events

• Soprano Giuditta Pasta makes her stage début in Venice.
• Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse is appointed composer to the court of Denmark.

Popular music

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Classical music

• João Domingos Bomtempo – Requiem in C Minor
• Muzio Clementi – The publication of Gradus ad Parnassum Volume II is entered at Stationer’s Hall, London on April 16.
• Anton Reicha – Andante for Wind Quintet no 2 in F major
• Franz Schubert – 'Trout' Quintet

Opera

• Saverio Mercadante – L'Apoteosi d'Ercole
• Giovanni Pacini – La sposa fedele
• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Bianca e Falliero
  • La donna del lago
  • Eduardo e Cristina
  • Ermione

Births

• January 18 – Henriette Nissen-Saloman, opera singer (d. 1879)
• February 11 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (d. 1890)
• February 24 – Emilia Uggla, pianist (d. 1855)
• April 4 – Lucile Grahn, ballerina (d. 1907)
• April 11 – Sir Charles Hallé, pianist and conductor (d. 1895)
• April 18 – Franz von Suppé, composer (d. 1895)
• May 5 – Achille De Bassini, operatic baritone (d. 1881)
• June 20 – Jacques Offenbach, composer (d. 1880)
• July 3 – Louis Théodore Gouvy, composer (d. 1898)
• September 13 – Clara Schumann, pianist, composer (d. 1896)
• October 20 – Carl Mikuli, pianist, conductor, composer (d. 1897)
• Ebba d'Aubert, Swedish pianist (d. 1860)

Deaths

• March 9 – János Fusz, composer (b. 1777)
• May 16 – Micaela Villegas, Peruvian entertainer (b. 1748)
• June 20 – Maria Anna Braunhofer, operatic soprano (b. 1748)
• June 21 – Georg Druschetzky, composer (b. 1745)
• June 30 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians (b. 1746)
• September 7 – Jean-Louis Duport, cellist (b. 1749)
• December 29 – Josepha Weber, operatic soprano (b. 1758)
• date unknown – Anant Fandi, Marathi Shahir poet-singer (b. 1744)