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This is a list of music-related events in 1816.

Events

  • January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
  • January 12 – The première of Gioacchino Rossini's new cantata, Giunone, takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, where the composer is musical director.
  • February 20 – Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville), receives its première at the Teatro Argentina, Rome.
  • March 21 – Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny, Felix, Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
  • An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98
  • Der Mann von Wort, Op. 99
  • Piano Sonata No. 28
  • Sehnsucht, WoO 146
  • Luigi Cherubini – Requiem in C minor
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Septet No.1, Op. 74
  • Conradin Kreutzer – String Quintet, Op. 62
  • Franz Krommer – 3 String Quartets, Op. 92
  • Joseph Mayseder – Polonaise No.3, Op. 12
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gli amori di Teolinda (cantata)