John Feltham Danneley (baptised 1785 – c.1835) was an English writer on music.
[1] The second son of George Danneley, a lay clerk of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and his wife Elizabeth, he was born at Wokingham, Berkshire, into a family who had come down in the world.
Until 1812 he lived with his mother at Odiham, where he became interested in continental music and languages from intercourse with prisoners of war quartered there.
In 1812 he went to Ipswich as a teacher of music; a few years later he was appointed organist of the church of St. Mary of the Tower.
[3] In 1816, Danneley visited Paris, where he studied under Anton Reicha, Louis-Barthélémy Pradher, and Aleksander Mirecki, and encountered Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny and Luigi Cherubini.