See also: 1824 in music, other events of 1825, 1826 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in England
• François-Adrien Boildieu 's opera La Dame blanche premieres in Paris.
• Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.
• Friedrich Kuhlau visits Vienna and meets Beethoven.
• Josef Lanner and Johann Strauss I part company.

Classical music

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga - Symphony in D major
• Jean-François Lesueur - Te Deum (for the coronation of King Charles X of France)

Opera

• Alahor in Granata - Gaetano Donizetti
• Don Sanche ou le Chateau d'Amour (Don Sanche or the Castle of Love) - Franz Liszt
• Giulietta e Romeo - Nicola Vaccai

Popular Music

• "Cherry Ripe"     w. Herrick, m. Charles Edward Horn
• "The Minstrel's Return'd From The War"     John Hill Hewitt

Births

• February 26 - Hans Balatka, composer
• March 8 - George William Martin , composer
• April 3 - Adolf Rzepko , composer
• May 10 - Rudolf Viole , composer
• May 26 - Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza , composer
• July 23 - Richard Hol , composer, organist and conductor
• August 21 - Kate Fanny Loder
• September 25 - Johann Strauss II
• November 14 - August Reissmann , composer, critic, and compiler of musical reference works
• December 4 - Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek , composer
• December 16 - Robert Prescott Stewart , composer
• December 19 - George Frederick Bristow , composer
• December 25 - Esteban Salas y Castro , composer
• December 27 - Reinhold Finsterbusch , composer

Deaths

• February 5 - Pierre Gaveaux , composer
• February 16 - George Gerson , composer
• March 24 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti , composer
• April 13 - Josef Gelinek , composer
• May 7 - Antonio Salieri
• May 12 - Elias Mann and Stanislao Mattei , composers
• May 22 - Domenico Corri , composer
• July 20 - Joseph-Denis Doche , composer
• July 29 - Micah Hawkins , composer
• August 3 - Ambrogio Minoja, composer
• August 20 - Richard Wainwright, composer
• August 23 - Amos Bull , composer
• November 1 - Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa , composer
• November 19 - Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek
• December 29 - Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini , composer
• December 30 - Peter Gronland , composer