This is a list of music-related events in 1816 .
Title page of the first edition (1816), Bonn, Beethoven-Haus
January 9 – Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl , after a legal battle with the boy's mother.[ 1] January 12 – The première of Gioacchino Rossini 's new cantata, Giunone , takes place at the Teatro di San Carlo , Naples, where the composer is musical director.[ 1] February 12 – The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples burns down; reconstruction starts almost immediately, at the behest of King Ferdinand IV .[ 2] February 20 – Rossini's opera, Almaviva, ossia L’inutile precauzione (later better known as The Barber of Seville Teatro Argentina , Rome.[ 3] March 21 – Prominent Jewish couple Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn arrange for their four children, Fanny , Felix , Rebecka and Paul, to be secretly baptized as Lutherans in the Jerusalemkirche, Berlin.[ 1] April 9 – Returning to Prague after a twenty-year absence, Johann Nepomuk Hummel gives a public recital.[ 1] April 17 – Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert .[ 1] April 29 – Luigi Cherubini 's cantata Inno alla primavera , commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, is given its première in London, a year later than scheduled and without the composer present.[ 1] June 16 – In recognition of the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Vienna, Antonio Salieri is presented with a gold medal by the Lord Chamberlain on behalf of the Emperor Francis II .[ 1] July 13 – Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden .[ 1] October 2 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg .[ 1] October 18 – Louis Spohr and Niccolò Paganini meet in Venice.[ 1] November 19 – Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.[ 1] November 25 – Muzio Clementi leaves London after a six-month stay.[ 1]
February 26 – Franz Krenn , composer and music teacher (d. 1897)March 19 – Johannes Verhulst , conductor and composer (d. 1891)April 13 – William Sterndale Bennett , pianist and composer (d. 1875)April 26 – Eugène Albert , woodwind instrument maker (d. 1890)July 16 – Antoine François Marmontel , French pianist (died 1898)August 17 – Benjamin Bilse , conductor and composer (d. 1902)September 4 – François Bazin , opera composer (d. 1878)November 17 – August Wilhelm Ambros , composer and music historian (d. 1876)November 24 – Matteo Salvi , composer (d. 1887)December 8 – Edvard Helsted , composer (d. 1900)date unknown – Edward Edwards , musician and composer (d. 1897)
February 10 – Jean Paul Egide Martini , composer (born 1741 )February 19 – Margareta Alströmer , singer and artist (born 1763 )March 16 – Giuseppe Jannaconi , composer (born 1740)March 23 – Ignaz Vitzthumb , conductor and composer (born 1724 )May 4 – Marie-Madeleine Guimard , ballerina (born 1743 )May 25 – Samuel Webbe , composer (born 1740 )June 5 – Giovanni Paisiello , composer (born 1740)July 31 – Josef Fiala , musician and composer (born 1748 )December 15 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz , patron of Beethoven (born 1772 )date unknown – João José Baldi , pianist and composer (born 1770 ) 
