1815 in music

[edit] Events

• Gioacchino Rossini goes to Naples as musical and artistic director of the Teatro San Carlo.

[edit] Classical music

• Giacomo Meyerbeer - Gli Amori di Teolinda (cantata)
• Anton Reicha - Concerto for Clarinet in G minor
• Franz Schubert - Der Erlkönig

[edit] Opera

• Gioacchino Rossini
  • Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra **Torvaldo e Dorliska
• Franz Schubert - Der Vierjahrige Posten

[edit] Births

• April 6 - Robert Volkmann, composer
• April 12 - Henry Hugo Pierson, English composer
• August 16 - Madame Céleste, dancer (d. 1882)
• November - Adelaide Kemble, opera singer (d. 1879)

[edit] Deaths

• March 4 - Frances Abington, singer and actress (b. 1737)
• April 8 - Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (b. 1765)
• May 21 - Roman Hofstetter, composer (b. 1742)
• September 29 - Frederick Charles Reinhold, bass singer and organist (b. 1737)
• November 28 - Johann Peter Salomon, violinist, conductor, impresario and composer (b. 1745)