1810 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1810.

Events

	Bagatelle in A minor ("Für Elise")
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• April 27 – Beethoven composes his "Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor" for piano, "Für Elise".
• Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.
• Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 3 Songs, op. 83
  • Egmont, op. 84, overture and incidental music
  • String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, op. 96
• Friedrich Kuhlau – piano concerto

Opera

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Mathilde von Guise
• Gioacchino Rossini – La Cambiale di Matrimonio

Popular music

• Jesse Mercer – Cluster of Spiritual Songs

Births

• January 20 – Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (died 1873)
• February 22 – Frédéric Chopin, composer, pianist (died 1849)
• February 8 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer (died 1836)
• May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (died 1874)
• June 8 – Robert Schumann, composer (died 1856)
• June 9 – Otto Nicolai, composer and conductor (died 1849)
• August 6 – Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (died 1890)
• September 22 – Paul Barroilhet, operatic baritone (died 1871)
• October 18 – Giovanni Matteo Mario, operatic tenor (died 1883)
• November 7 – Ferenc Erkel, opera composer (died 1893)
• November 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer (died 1882)

Deaths

• January 7 – Joseph Lipavsky, composer
• March 29 – John Garth, composer (born 1721)
• April 8 – Venanzio Rauzzini, castrato singer, composer, pianist and teacher (born 1746)
• November 19 – Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master (born 1727)
• November 27 – Francesco Bianchi, opera composer (born 1752)
• date unknown – Domenico Fischietti, composer (born 1725)