This is a list of music-related events in 1806.

Events Gioachino Rossini becomes the youngest member of the Philharmonics Society of Bologna, where he starts studying composition Carl Czerny publishes his first composition at the age of 15. The marimba is described for the first time by Juan Domingo Juarros, a Spanish historian, in his Compendium of the History of Guatemala. Johann Simon Mayr founds a new music school at Bergamo, Italy. Gaetano Donizetti is one of its first pupils. Marcussen & Søn, Danish organ-building firm, founded. The poem "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is published in Rhymes for the Nursery; it would later be made into a popular song of the same name.

Classical music Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 Piano Concerto No. 4 Violin Concerto 3 String Quartets, Op. 59 32 Variations in C minor Johann Nepomuk Hummel 7 Hungarian Dances 12 Minuets Carl Maria von Weber – Concertino for Horn and Orchestra Joseph Wölfl – Piano Concerto No. 5 "Grand Concerto Militaire", Op. 43

Opera Étienne Méhul – Uthal

Births January 3 – Henriette Sontag, operatic soprano (d. 1854) January 27 – Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, "the Spanish Mozart" (d. 1826) March 3 – Giuseppe Mazza, composer, conductor, and organist (d. 1885) August 17 – Johann Kaspar Mertz, guitarist and composer (d. 1856) September 2 – Josef Gusikov, klezmer musician (d. 1837) November 4 – Anders Selinder, dancer and choreographer (d. 1874) December 4 – Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, composer (d. 1874)

Deaths January 30 – Vicente Martín y Soler, opera and ballet composer (b. 1754) February 18 – Brigida Banti, operatic soprano (b. 1755) February 23 – John Alcock, composer (b. 1715) February 24 – Tommaso Giordani, composer (b. c. 1738) March 16 – Giuseppe Colla, composer (b. 1731) March 23 – George Pinto, composer (b. 1785) June 14 – Domenico Guardasoni, operatic tenor (b. c.1731) June 18 – Antoine Lacroix, French composer and violinist (b. 1756) August 10 – Michael Haydn, composer (b. 1737) date unknown José de Larrañaga, organist and composer (b. 1728) Charles Le Picq, dancer and choreographer (b. 1744)

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