1825 in music

See also: 1824 in music, other events of 1825, 1826 in music and the list of 'years in music'.

Events

• First performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in England
• François-Adrien Boildieu's opera La Dame blanche premieres in Paris.
• Maria Malibran makes her operatic debut as Rosina in The Barber of Seville.
• Friedrich Kuhlau visits Vienna and meets Beethoven.
• Josef Lanner and Johann Strauss I part company.

Classical music

• Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga – Symphony in D major
• Jean-François Lesueur – Te Deum (for the coronation of King Charles X of France)

Opera

• Alahor in Granata – Gaetano Donizetti
• Don Sanche ou le Chateau d'Amour (Don Sanche or the Castle of Love) – Franz Liszt
• Giulietta e Romeo – Nicola Vaccai

Popular Music

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

Births

• February 26 – Hans Balatka, composer
• March 8 – George William Martin, composer
• April 3 – Adolf Rzepko, composer
• May 10 – Rudolf Viole, composer
• May 26 – Felipe Gutierrez y Espinoza, composer
• July 23 – Richard Hol, composer, organist and conductor
• August 21 – Kate Fanny Loder
• September 25 – Johann Strauss II
• November 14 – August Reissmann, composer, critic, and compiler of musical reference works
• December 4 – Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer
• December 16 – Robert Prescott Stewart, composer
• December 19 – George Frederick Bristow, composer
• December 25 – Esteban Salas y Castro, composer
• December 27 – Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer

Deaths

• February 5 – Pierre Gaveaux, composer
• February 16 – George Gerson, composer
• March 24 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
• April 13 – Josef Gelinek, composer
• May 7 – Antonio Salieri
• May 12 – Elias Mann and Stanislao Mattei, composers
• May 22 – Domenico Corri, composer
• July 20 – Joseph-Denis Doche, composer
• July 29 – Micah Hawkins, composer
• August 3 – Ambrogio Minoja, composer
• August 20 – Richard Wainwright, composer
• August 23 – Amos Bull, composer
• November 1 – Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composer
• November 19 – Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek
• December 29 – Giuseppe Maria Gioacchino Cambini, composer
• December 30 – Peter Gronland, composer