1811 in music
Events
Popular music
- "Bubble, Squeak and Pettitoes" aka "Mr. Grig and Mrs. Snap" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in Harlequin and Blue Beard
Classical music
Opera
Births
- January 21 â Mademoiselle Ambroisine, ballet dancer (d. 1882)
- February 4 â Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder (d. 1899)
- March 13 â Camille-Marie Stamaty, composer and pianist (d. 1870)
- March 23 â Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer (d. 1891)
- May 22 â Giulia Grisi, operatic soprano (d. 1869)
- July 19 â Vincenz Lachner, composer (d. 1893)
- August 5 â Ambroise Thomas, opera composer (d. 1896)
- August 25 â August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer (d. 1885)
- August 31 â Adolfina Fägerstedt, ballerina (d. 1902)
- September â Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (d. 1867)
- September 29 â Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer (d. 1866)
- October 16 â Gaetano Capocci, conductor and composer (d. 1898)
- October 22 â Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (d. 1886)
- October 24 â Ferdinand Hiller, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1885)
- November 11 â François Delsarte, operatic tenor and singing teacher (d. 1871)
- November 26 â Franz Brendel, music critic (d. 1868)
- December 8 â Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (d. 1864)
- December 23 â Yevdokiya Rostopchina, lyricist and noble (died 1858)
- undated â Francis Hartwell Henslowe, public servant and composer (died 1878)
- probable â James Hill, folk musician (d. 1853)
Deaths
- February 27 â Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso, 78
- March 19 â FrantiÃ
¡ek Adam MÃÂÃÂa, composer, 65
- April 15 â Ernest Louis Muller, composer
- May 12 â Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer and cellist, 72
- July 13 â Pierre Laujon, chansonnier (b. 1727)
- July 19 â Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer
- August 18 â Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
- August 20 â Dorothea Wendling, operatic soprano, 75
- September 6
- Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
- Ignaz Fränzl, violinist and composer, 75
- September 14 â Johanna Löfblad, actress and singer (b. 1733)
- 13 October â Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
- December 7 â Ignaz Spangler, composer
- date unknown
- John Antes, composer, 71
- Barbara Ployer, pianist (b. 1765)
- Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
- Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage, patron of Muzio Clementi, 70
- Thomas Ebdon, composer and organist (b. 1738)
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