1811 in music

Events

• None listed

Popular music

• "Bubble, Squeak and Pettitoes" aka "Mr. Grig and Mrs. Snap" sung by Joseph Grimaldi in Harlequin and Blue Beard ^[1]

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Piano Trio No. 7 (the "Archduke")
  • Die Ruinen von Athen ("The Ruins of Athens")
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
• Peter Casper Krossing – Symphony in C minor ^[2]
• Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur (oratorio)
• Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14 ^[3]
• George Onslow – Duo for Piano 4 hands no 1 in E minor
• Ferdinand Ries
  • Horn Sonata, Op. 34
  • 3 Violin Sonatas, Op. 38
  • Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 42
  • String Quintet, Op. 68
  • Concerto for 2 Horns, WoO 19
• Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major "Le coucou", Op. 49

Opera

• Carl Maria von Weber – Abu Hassan

Births

• January 21 – Mademoiselle Ambroisine, ballet dancer (d. 1882)
• February 4 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder (d. 1899)
• March 13 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, composer and pianist (d. 1870)
• March 23 – Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer (d. 1891)
• May 22 – Giulia Grisi, operatic soprano (d. 1869)
• July 19 – Vincenz Lachner, composer (d. 1893)
• August 5 – Ambroise Thomas, opera composer (d. 1896) ^[4]
• August 25 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer (d. 1885)
• August 31 – Adolfina Fägerstedt, ballerina (d. 1902)
• September – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (d. 1867)
• September 29 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer (d. 1866)
• October 16 – Gaetano Capocci, conductor and composer (d. 1898)
• October 22 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (d. 1886) ^[5]
• October 24 – Ferdinand Hiller, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1885)
• November 11 – François Delsarte, operatic tenor and singing teacher (d. 1871)
• November 26 – Franz Brendel, music critic (d. 1868)
• December 8 – Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (d. 1864)
• December 23 – Yevdokiya Rostopchina, lyricist and noble (died 1858)
• undated – Francis Hartwell Henslowe, public servant and composer (died 1878)
• probable – James Hill, folk musician (d. 1853)

Deaths

• February 27 – Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso, 78 ^[6]
• March 19 – František Adam Míča, composer, 65
• April 15 – Ernest Louis Muller, composer
• May 12 – Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer and cellist, 72
• July 13 – Pierre Laujon, chansonnier (b. 1727)
• July 19 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer ^[7]
• August 18 – Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
• August 20 – Dorothea Wendling, operatic soprano, 75
• September 6
  • Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
  • Ignaz Fränzl, violinist and composer, 75 ^[8]
• September 14 – Johanna Löfblad, actress and singer (b. 1733)
• 13 October – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
• December 7 – Ignaz Spangler, composer
• date unknown
  • John Antes, composer, 71 ^[9]
  • Barbara Ployer, pianist (b. 1765) ^[10]
  • Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
  • Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage, patron of Muzio Clementi, 70 ^[11]
  • Thomas Ebdon, composer and organist (b. 1738) ^[12]

References

1. "Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi, a Project Gutenberg eBook". www.gutenberg.org. Retrieved 2026-01-11.
2. "IMSLP" . Retrieved 27 August 2010.
3. Lance G. Hill, "W.A. Mozart, "Jr." – 2 Delightful Piano Concertos!", Classical Music Chatterbox (Wed Apr 12, 2006; archive from September 28, 2007; retrieved August 25, 2017).
4. Arthur Hervey (1973). Masters of French Music. Library of Alexandria. p. 14. ISBN   978-1-4655-5160-3.
5. Alan Walker (1987). Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847. Cornell University Press. p. 55. ISBN   0-8014-9421-4.
6. Hermann Abert (2007). W.A. Mozart. Yale University Press. p. 761. ISBN   978-0-300-07223-5.
7. John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 454.
8. Friedrich Blume; Ludwig Finscher (2002). Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. Bärenreiter. ISBN   978-3-7618-1117-7.
9. Nola Reed Knouse (2008). The Music of the Moravian Church in America. University Rochester Press. p. 300. ISBN   978-1-58046-260-0.
10. Marius Flothuis (2008). Mozarts Klavierkonzerte: ein musikalischer Werkführer. C.H.Beck. p. 75. ISBN   978-3-406-56864-0.
11. Robert Smith Surtees (1846). Handley Cross, Or, The Spa Hunt. A Sporting Tale. Henry Colburn. p. 19.
12. William Marshall (1840). A collection of anthems used in the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales [ed.] by W. Marshall. pp.  11.