1825 in music

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This article is about music-related events in 1825.

Events

• March 21 – British première of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (1824) is presented by the Philharmonic Society of London.
• December 10 – François-Adrien Boieldieu's opéra comique La dame blanche is premièred by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris.
• Mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville at the King's Theatre in London.
• Danish composer and pianist Friedrich Kuhlau visits Vienna and meets Beethoven.
• Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss I part company in Vienna.

Classical music

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Symphony in D major
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major
  • String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor
• Franz Schubert
  • Ellens Gesang III
  • Piano Sonata in A minor
• Jean-François Lesueur – Te Deum (for the coronation of King Charles X of France)
• Felix Mendelssohn – Octet for Strings

Opera

• Vincenzo Bellini – Adelson e Salvini
• Gaetano Donizetti – Alahor in Granata
• Franz Liszt – Don Sanche ou le Chateau d'Amour (Don Sanche or the Castle of Love)
• Giovanni Pacini – L'ultimo giorno di Pompei
• Nicola Vaccai – Giulietta e Romeo

Popular music

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

Births

• January 23 – Louis Ehlert, composer and music critic (d. 1884)
• February 28 – Jean-Baptiste Arban, cornet virtuoso and conductor (d. 1889)
• March 12 – August Manns, conductor (d. 1907)
• June 24 – Jovan Sundečić, poet and lyricist (d. 1900)
• June 30 – Hervé, singer, conductor and composer of operettas (d. 1892)
• August 7 – Gaetano Antoniazzi, violin-maker (d. 1897)
• August 21 – Kate Loder, pianist and composer (d. 1904)
• August 22 – Julius Schulhoff, pianist and composer (d. 1898)
• August 24 – Charles Wels, pianist, organist, composer and music teacher (d. 1906)
• September 25 – Johann Strauss II, conductor and composer (d. 1899)
• December 19 – George Frederick Bristow, composer (d. 1898)
• date unknown - Balbina Steffenone, operatic soprano (d. 1896)

Deaths

• February 5 – Pierre Gaveaux, operatic tenor and composer (b. 1761)
• March 24 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (b. 1761)
• May 6 – Lady Anne Barnard, balladeer (b. 1750)
• May 7 – Antonio Salieri, composer (b. 1750)
• May 12 – Elias Mann (b. 1750)
• July 10 – Ludwig Fischer, operatic bass (b. 1745)
• July 29 – Micah Hawkins, composer and writer (b. 1777)
• August 3 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer (b. 1752)
• August 23 – Amos Bull, composer (b. 1744)
• September 13 – Luigi Bassi, operatic baritone (b. 1766)
• November 1 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
• November 19 – Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer (b. 1791)
• December 29 – Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer
• December 30 – Peter Gronland, composer
• probable – Giuseppe Cambini, violinist and composer (b. 1746)