1806 in music

This is a list of music-related events in 1806.

EventsEdit

Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition
Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15.
The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala.
Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils.
Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded.
The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
March 3 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist (d. 1885)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856)
September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837)
November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874)
December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)

January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754)
February 18 - Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1755)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715)
February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738)
March 16 – Giuseppe Colla, composer (b. 1731)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
March 23 – George Pinto, composer (b. 1785)
June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731)
August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737)
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- José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728)
- Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>