Antonio Salieri (1750-1825)
May 7 Italian composer (Tarare; La Fiera), opera director (Habsburg Court, 1774-92), and Kapellmeister (Austrian Imperial Court, 1788-1824), dies in Vienna at 74
- May 12 Elias Mann, American composer, dies at 75
- May 12 Stanislao Mattei, Italian composer, teacher, musicologist, and monk dies at 75
- May 22 Domenico Corri, Italian composer, dies at 80
- Jul 20 Joseph-Denis Doche, French composer, dies at 58
- Jul 29 Micah Hawkins, American poet and composer, dies at 48
- Aug 3 Ambrogio Minoja, Italian classical composer, dies at 72
- Aug 20 Richard Wainwright, composer and church organist, dies at 68
- Aug 23 Amos Bull, American hymn composer, dies at 81
- Oct 10 Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky, Russian-Ukrainian harpsichordist and composer (Tantum Ergo), dies at 73
- Oct 17 Peter Winter, German composer, dies at 71
- Nov 1 Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, Portuguese composer, dies at 49
- Nov 19 Jan Václav Voříšek, Czech pianist, organist, and composer, dies of respiratory arrest at 34
- Dec 29 Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer, dies
- Dec 30 Peter Grønland, Danish composer, dies at 64
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