- Feb 1 Maria Theresia von Paradis, Austrian blind pianist, singer, organist, and composer, dies at 64
- Feb 22 John Davy, English composer, dies at 60
- Mar 3 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 70
- Mar 12 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
- Mar 22 Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer, dies at 76
- Apr 18 Edward Jones, Welsh harpist and composer, dies at 72
- May 15 Alexander Campbell, Scottish composer and writer (associate of Walter Scott), dies at 60
- Aug 21 Santiago Ferrer, Spanish composer, dies at 62
- Sep 17 Giacomo Tritto, Italian composer, dies at 91
- Nov 30 Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, German-Scottish cellist and composer, dies at 87
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