1810 in music

Events

*Friedrich Kuhlau leaves Hamburg for Copenhagen to avoid conscription into Napoleon's army.
*Work begins on the San Carlo Opera House at Naples.

Classical Music

*Ludwig van Beethoven - incidental music for Goethe's "Egmont"
*Friedrich Kuhlau - piano concerto

Opera

*Johann Nepomuk Hummel - "Mathilde von Guise"
*Gioacchino Rossini - "La Cambiale di Matrimonio"

Births

*January 20 - Ferdinand David, violinist and composer (d. 1873)
*February 22 - Frédéric Chopin, composer, pianist (d. 1849)
*February 8 - Norbert Burgmüller, composer (d. 1836)
*May 2 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (d. 1874)
*June 8 - Robert Schumann, composer (d. 1856)
*June 9 - Otto Nicolai, composer and conductor (d. 1849)
*August 6 - Giorgio Ronconi, operatic baritone (d. 1890)
*November 7 - Ferenc Erkel, opera composer (d. 1893)
*November 16 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kücken, conductor and composer (d. 1882)

Deaths

*January 7 - Joseph Lipavsky
*November 19 - Jean-Georges Noverre, ballet master (b. 1727)
*"date unknown"
**Domenico Fischietti, composer (b. 1725)
**John Garth, composer (b. 1721)