1811 in music explained

Events

Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Trio No. 7 (the "Archduke")
- Die Ruinen von Athen ("The Ruins of Athens")
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 12 German Dances and Coda for Redout-Deutsche
Peter Casper Krossing – Symphony in C minor^[1]
Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur (oratorio)
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart – Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 14^[2]
George Onslow – Duo for Piano 4 hands no 1 in E minor
- - Ferdinand Ries Horn Sonata, Op. 34
- 3 Violin Sonatas, Op. 38
- Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 42
- String Quintet, Op. 68
- Concerto for 2 Horns, WoO 19
Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 6 in D major "Le coucou", Op. 49

January 21 – Mademoiselle Ambroisine, ballet dancer (d. 1882)
February 4 – Aristide Cavaillé-Coll, organ builder (d. 1899)
March 13 – Camille-Marie Stamaty, composer and pianist (d. 1870)
March 23 – Carl Gottfried Wilhelm Taubert, composer (d. 1891)
May 22 – Giulia Grisi, operatic soprano (d. 1869)
July 19 – Vincenz Lachner, composer (d. 1893)
August 5 – Ambroise Thomas, opera composer (d. 1896)^[3]
August 25 – August Gottfried Ritter, organist and composer (d. 1885)
August 31 – Adolfina Fägerstedt, ballerina (d. 1902)
September – Charles Frederick Hempel, organist and composer (d. 1867)
September 29 – Adam Darr, guitarist, singer and composer (d. 1866)
October 16 – Gaetano Capocci, conductor and composer (d. 1898)
October 22 – Franz Liszt, pianist and composer (d. 1886)^[4]
October 24 – Ferdinand Hiller, pianist, composer and conductor (d. 1885)
November 11 – François Delsarte, operatic tenor and singing teacher (d. 1871)
November 26 – Franz Brendel, music critic (d. 1868)
December 8 – Louis Schindelmeisser, clarinettist, conductor and composer (d. 1864)
December 23 – Yevdokiya Rostopchina, lyricist and noble (died 1858)
undated – Francis Hartwell Henslowe, public servant and composer (died 1878)
probable – James Hill, folk musician (d. 1853)

February 27 – Joseph Leutgeb, horn virtuoso, 78^[5]
March 19 – František Adam Míča, composer, 65
April 15 – Ernest Louis Muller, composer
May 12 – Louis-Charles-Joseph Rey, composer and cellist, 72
July 13 – Pierre Laujon, chansonnier (b. 1727)
July 19 – Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer^[6]
August 18 – Johann Heinrich Zang, composer
August 20 – Dorothea Wendling, operatic soprano, 75
- - September 6 Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
- Ignaz Fränzl, violinist and composer, 75^[7]
September 14 – Johanna Löfblad, actress and singer (b. 1733)
December 7 – Ignaz Spangler, composer
date unknown
- John Antes, composer, 71^[8]
- Barbara Ployer, pianist (b. 1765)^[9]
- Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
- Sir Peter Beckford, English peerage, patron of Muzio Clementi, 70^[10]
- Thomas Ebdon, composer and organist (b. 1738)^[11]

Web site: IMSLP. 27 August 2010.
Lance G. Hill, "W.A. Mozart, "Jr." – 2 Delightful Piano Concertos!", Classical Music Chatterbox (Wed Apr 12, 2006; archive from September 28, 2007; retrieved August 25, 2017).
Book: Arthur Hervey. Masters of French Music. 1973. Library of Alexandria. 978-1-4655-5160-3. 14.
Book: Alan Walker. Franz Liszt: The virtuoso years, 1811-1847. 1987. Cornell University Press. 0-8014-9421-4. 55.
Book: Hermann Abert. W.A. Mozart. 2007. Yale University Press. 978-0-300-07223-5. 761.
Book: John Denison Champlin. William Foster Apthorp. Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians: Naaman-Zwillingsbrüder. 1899. C. Scribner's Sons. 454.
Book: Friedrich Blume. Ludwig Finscher. Ludwig Finscher. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart: allgemeine Enzyklopädie der Musik. 2002. Bärenreiter. 978-3-7618-1117-7.
Book: Nola Reed Knouse. The Music of the Moravian Church in America. 2008. University Rochester Press. 978-1-58046-260-0. 300.
Book: Marius Flothuis. Mozarts Klavierkonzerte: ein musikalischer Werkführer. 2008. C.H.Beck. 978-3-406-56864-0. 75.
Book: Robert Smith Surtees. Handley Cross, Or, The Spa Hunt. A Sporting Tale.. 1846. Henry Colburn. 19.
Book: William Marshall. A collection of anthems used in the cathedral and collegiate churches of England and Wales [ed.] by W. Marshall]. 1840. 11.