1806 in music

• Carl Czerny
  Carl Czerny
  Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of etudes for the piano. Czerny knew and was influenced by the well-known pianists Muzio Clementi and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.-Biography:Carl Czerny was born in Vienna to a family of Czech origin...
  
   publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
• The marimba
  Marimba
  The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. Keys or bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones...
  
   is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
• Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo
  Bergamo
  Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to approximately 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
  
  , Italy. Gaetano Donizetti
  Gaetano Donizetti
  Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore...
  
   is one of its first pupils.
• Marcussen & Søn
  Marcussen & Søn
  Marcussen & Søn, known as Marcussen and previously as Marcussen & Reuter, is a Danish firm of organ builders.They were one of the first firms to go back to classical organ-building techniques, and have been producing mechanical-action organs since 1930...
  
  , Danish
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
  
   organ
  Pipe organ
  The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and loudness throughout the keyboard compass...
  
  -building firm, founded.

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, of the Electorate of Cologne and...
  
   - Symphony No 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Violin Concerto, 3 String Quartets, Op 59.
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , part of Kingdom of Hungary...
  
   - 7 Hungarian Dances; 12 Minuets

• January 3 - Henriette Sontag
  Henriette Sontag
  Henriette Sontag was a German operatic soprano of great international renown.-Life:Sontag was born at Coblenz as Gertrude Walpurgis Sonntag. She made her début at the age of 15....
  
  , operatic soprano (d.

Events

• Carl Czerny
  Carl Czerny
  Carl Czerny was an Austrian pianist, composer and teacher. He is best remembered today for his books of etudes for the piano. Czerny knew and was influenced by the well-known pianists Muzio Clementi and Johann Nepomuk Hummel.-Biography:Carl Czerny was born in Vienna to a family of Czech origin...
  
   publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
• The marimba
  Marimba
  The marimba is a musical instrument in the percussion family. Keys or bars are struck with mallets to produce musical tones...
  
   is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
• Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo
  Bergamo
  Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40 km northeast of Milan. The comune is home to approximately 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent the metropolitan area of Milan...
  
  , Italy. Gaetano Donizetti
  Gaetano Donizetti
  Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti was an Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy. Donizetti's most famous work is Lucia di Lammermoor , and arguably his most immediately recognizable piece of music is the aria "Una furtiva lagrima" from L'elisir d'amore...
  
   is one of its first pupils.
• Marcussen & Søn
  Marcussen & Søn
  Marcussen & Søn, known as Marcussen and previously as Marcussen & Reuter, is a Danish firm of organ builders.They were one of the first firms to go back to classical organ-building techniques, and have been producing mechanical-action organs since 1930...
  
  , Danish
  Denmark
  Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
  
   organ
  Pipe organ
  The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and loudness throughout the keyboard compass...
  
  -building firm, founded.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven
  Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, of the Electorate of Cologne and...
  
   - Symphony No 4, Piano Concerto No 4, Violin Concerto, 3 String Quartets, Op 59.
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel
  Johann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was a composer and virtuoso pianist of Austrian origin who was born in Pressburg , part of Kingdom of Hungary...
  
   - 7 Hungarian Dances; 12 Minuets

Births

• January 3 - Henriette Sontag
  Henriette Sontag
  Henriette Sontag was a German operatic soprano of great international renown.-Life:Sontag was born at Coblenz as Gertrude Walpurgis Sonntag. She made her début at the age of 15....
  
  , operatic soprano (d. 1854)
• January 27 - Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio Arriaga y Balzola
  Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
  Juan Crisóstomo Jacobo Antonio de Arriaga y Balzola was a Spanish composer. He was nicknamed the "Spanish Mozart" after he died, because, like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he was also a child prodigy and an accomplished composer who died young.-Life:Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga was born in Bilbao, Spain on...
  
  , "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)
• June 28 - Napoleon Coste
  Napoléon Coste
  Claude Antoine Jean Georges Napoléon Coste was a French guitarist and composer.-Biography:Napoléon Coste was born in Amondans , France, near Besançon. He was first taught the guitar by his mother, an accomplished player. As a teenager he became a teacher of the instrument and appeared in many...
  
  , guitarist and composer (d. 1883)
• August 17 - Johann Kaspar Mertz
  Johann Kaspar Mertz
  Johann Kaspar Mertz was a Hungarian guitarist and composer.- Biography :János Gáspár Mertz was born in Pozsony. He was active in Vienna , which had been home to various prominent figures of the guitar, including Anton Diabelli, Mauro Giuliani, Wenceslaus Matiegka and Simon Franz Molitor...
  
  , guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
• September 2 - Josef Gusikov
  Josef Gusikov
  thumb|right|Joseph Gusikov, from Lewald's 'Europa' . Engraving by Joseph KriehuberMichal Josef Gusikov was a klezmer who gave the first performances of klezmer music to West European concert audiences on his 'wood and straw instrument'.- Gusikov and his instrument :thumb|left|Gusikow's...
  
  , klezmer musician (d. 1837)
• November 4 - Anders Selinder
  Anders Selinder
  Anders Selinder , , was a Swedish dancer, Ballet master, choreographer and director. He was master of the Royal Swedish Ballet in 1833-1856....
  
  , dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
• December 4 - Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
  Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller
  Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller was a German pianist and composer. He was born in Regensburg, Germany. Both his father, August, and his brother, Norbert, were musicians. His father was a musical theater director in Weimar and other Southern German centers. Freidrich studied with Ludwig Spohr and...
  
  , composer (d. 1874)

Deaths

• January 30 - Vicente Martín y Soler
  Vicente Martín y Soler
  Vicente Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure today, in his own day he was compared favorably with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa. He has been called the Valencian Mozart.He was born in Valencia and studied...
  
  , opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
• February 23 - John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
• March 23 - George Pinto
  George Pinto
  George Pinto was an English composer and keyboard virtuoso.-Family:He was baptized at St. Mary's, Lambeth on February 11, 1786 as George Sanders. Accounts of Pinto's life and character are tenuous. There seems to be no surviving correspondence, nor did he have any descendants preserving a family...
  
  , composer (b. 1785)
• August 10 - Michael Haydn
  Michael Haydn
  Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
  
  , composer (b. 1737)
• date unknown - Charles le Picq
  Charles le Picq
  Charles Le Picq was an influential French dancer and choreographer.Le Picq was a pupil of Jean Georges Noverre , one of the creators of modern ballet . He was called the Apollo of the dance and performed in many countries, such as France, Austria, Russia and Spain....
  
  , dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)