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Events
- January 12 – Domenico Cimarosa is buried at Chiesa di Sant’Angelo, Venice, with a requiem mass performed by local musicians.
- December 27 – Nineteen-year-old Niccolò Paganini becomes first violin of Lucca's national orchestra.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Violin Sonata No. 4, Op. 23
- Violin Sonata No. 5, Op. 24
- Piano Sonata No. 12, Op. 26
- Piano Sonata No. 13 & No. 14 (Moonlight), Op. 27
- Piano Sonata No. 15, Op. 28
- String Quintet, Op. 29
- The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43
- Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Sonatas, Op. 25
- Jan Ladislav Dussek
- Two Piano Sonatas C.184-5
- Pavel Vranický – Ballet Das Urteil des Paris
- Johann Baptist Wanhal – Clarinet Sonata in C major
- Joseph Woelfl – Duet for Cello and Piano, Op. 31
- Anton Wranitzky – 3 String Quintets, Op. 8
- Carl Friedrich Zelter – 12 Lieder am Clavier zu singen, Z.122
Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa – Artemisia
- Simon Mayr – Ginevra di Scozia
- March 2 – Charles-Albert Demoustier, lyricist and writer (born 1760)
- March 14 – Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer, 63
- March 21 – Andrea Luchesi, composer, 59
- March 25 – Friedrich von Hardenberg, librettist and poet (born 1772)
- May 13 – Bartholomeus Ruloffs, Dutch conductor and composer, 59
- May 14 – Johann Ernst Altenburg, composer, organist and trumpeter, 66
- August 31 – Nicola Sala, composer and music theorist, 88
- October 23 – Johann Gottlieb Naumann, conductor and composer, 60
- November – Thomas Augustine Geary, Irish composer (born 1773)
- November 9 – Carl Stamitz, composer, 56
- December 10 – Jonathan Battishill, composer of church music, 63