1810 in music

Events

• 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
• *March for Military Band, WoO 20
• *Polonaise for Military Band, WoO 21
• *Ecossaise for Military Band, WoO 22
• *Ecossaise for Military Band, WoO 23
• *Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor for piano, "Für Elise", WoO 59
• *25 Irish Songs, WoO 152
• *26 Welsh Songs, WoO 155
• *Egmont, Op. 84, overture and incidental music
• *3 Lieder, Op. 83
• *String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, "Serioso", Op. 95
• Joseph Eybler – Die vier letzen Dinge
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Flute Sonata in D major, Op. 50
• Friedrich Kuhlau – Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 7
• Etienne Mehul – Symphony No. 4 in E major
• Ferdinand Ries
• *Violin Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 24
• *Piano Trio, Op. 28
• Bernard Romberg – Trauer-Symphonie, Op.23
• Louis Spohr
• *Clarinet Concerto No.2, Op. 57
• *Violin Concerto No.10, Op. 62
• Carl Maria von Weber – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major, Op. 11

  Opera

• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Mathilde von Guise
• Gioacchino Rossini – La Cambiale di Matrimonio
• Carl Maria von Weber – Silvana

  Popular music

Births

• January 20 – Ferdinand David, violinist and composer
• February 22 – Frédéric Chopin, composer, pianist
• February 8 – Norbert Burgmüller, composer
• March 15 – Carl Linger
• May 2 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer
• May 18 – Francesco Maria Piave, Italian librettist
• 20 May – Sara Augusta Malmborg, singer, pianist and painter
• June 8 – Robert Schumann, composer
• June 9 – Otto Nicolai, composer and conductor
• June 17 – Ferdinand Freiligrath, lyricist and poet
• June 19 – Ferdinand David, editor and musician
• August 6 – Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone
• September 22 – Paul Barroilhet, operatic baritone
• October 18 – Giovanni Matteo Mario, operatic tenor
• November 7 – Ferenc Erkel, opera composer
• November 16 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer

  Deaths

• January 7 – Joseph Lipavsky, composer
• March 29 – John Garth, composer
• April 8 – Venanzio Rauzzini, castrato singer, composer, pianist and teacher
• July 19 – Joseph Stephenson, composer of West Gallery music
• November 19 – Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master
• November 27 – Francesco Bianchi, opera composer
• date unknown
• *Margaretha Christina Åbergsson, ballet dancer
• *Anna Davia, opera singer
• *Domenico Fischietti, composer