See also:
1824 in music,
other events of 1825,
1826 in music and the
list of 'years in music'.
Events
Classical music
Opera
Popular Music
Births
- February 26 - Hans Balatka, composer
- March 8 - George William Martin, composer
- April 3 - Adolf Rzepko, composer
- May 10 - Rudolf Viole, composer
- May 26 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
- July 23 - Richard Hol, composer, organist and conductor
- August 21 - Kate Fanny Loder
- September 25 - Johann Strauss II
- November 14 - August Reissmann, composer, critic, and compiler of musical reference works
- December 4 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
- December 16 - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer
- December 19 - George Frederick Bristow, composer
- December 25 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer
- December 27 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer
Deaths
- February 5 - Pierre Gaveaux, composer
- February 16 - George Gerson, composer
- March 24 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
- April 13 - Josef Gelinek, composer
- May 7 - Antonio Salieri
- May 12 - Elias Mann and Stanislao Mattei, composers
- May 22 - Domenico Corri, composer
- July 20 - Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
- July 29 - Micah Hawkins, composer
- August 3 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
- August 20 - Richard Wainwright, composer
- August 23 - Amos Bull, composer
- November 1 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
- November 19 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek
- December 29 - Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer
- December 30 - Peter Gronland, composer
