1795 in music

Events Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna following second London visit. Franz Krommer settles in Vienna. Ludwig van Beethoven makes his public performance debut as a pianist

Opera Louis Emmanuel Jadin Le Cabaleur Vicente Martín y Soler – La Capricciosa Correta Antonio Salieri – Palmira

Classical music Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – 6 String Trios, Op. 9 Ludwig van Beethoven 12 Minuets, WoO 7 German Dances, WoO 8 6 Minuets, WoO 9 6 Minuets, WoO 10 Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', WoO 28 9 Variations on 'Quant'e piu bello', WoO 69 6 Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento', WoO 70 Im Arm der Liebe ruht sich's wohl, WoO 159 Three Piano Trios, Op. 1 String Quintet in E-flat major, Op.4 Sextet in E-flat major, Op.81b Rondo a capriccio, Op.129 Muzio Clementi – 2 Piano Sonatas and 2 Capriccios, Op. 34 Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4 Adalbert Gyrowetz Three Flute Quartets, Op. 11 3 String Quartets, Op. 19 Thomas Haigh – 3 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 10 Joseph Haydn Symphonies 103 in E-flat "Drum Roll" and 104 in D "London" Piano Trios Op. 82, Including XV:24, 25, 26 Piano Trio in E-flat minor, Hob.XV:31 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150 (Volume III, 101–150) Heinrich Anton Hoffmann – 3 String Quartets, Op. 3 Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Sonata No. 8 Hyacinthe Jadin 3 String Quartets, Op. 1 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 4 Hans Georg Nägeli – Freut euch des Lebens (song) Ignaz Pleyel – Keyboard Trio in D major, B.461 Joseph Reicha – Concerto Concertant, Op. 3 Daniel Gottlob Turk – 120 Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler, Vol 2. Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.24 in B minor Friedrich Witt – Horn concerto in E major Francesco Molino - 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op.6

Methods and theory writings

Johann Ernst Altenburg – Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter und Pauker-Kunst Giuseppe Aprile – The Modern Italian Method of Singing Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Méthode pour la flûte traversiere Justin Heinrich Knecht – Vollständige Orgelschule Heinrich Christoph Koch – Über den Charakter der Solo- und Ripienstimmen

Births January 18 – Joseph Merk, cellist (died 1852) March 14 – Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer (died 1856) March 23 – Leopold Jansa, composer (died 1875) April 4 – Joseph Böhm, violinist and music teacher (died 1876) April 14 – Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer (died 1855) June 13 – Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (died 1864) May 27 – Friedrich August Belcke, trombonist (died 1874) August 16 – Heinrich Marschner, composer (died 1861) August 17 – Pierre-Louis Parisis, dedicatee and bishop (died 1866) September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (died 1870) September 29 – Kondraty Ryleyev, lyricist and poet (died 1826) October 17 – Johann Christoph Biernatzki, librettist and writer (died 1840) October 31 – John Keats, lyricist and poet (died 1821) November 17 – Antonio Bagioli, composer and music teacher (died 1871) December 10 – Kaspar Kummer, composer and flautist (died 1870) date unknown – Jeanne-Catherine Pauwels, Belgian pianist (died 1889)

Deaths January 19 – Maria Teresa Agnesi, Italian composer (born 1720) January 21 – Michel Corrette, organist and composer (b. 1707) January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer (b. 1732) February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, composer (b. 1740) March 5 – Josef Reicha, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1752) May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic (b. 1718) July – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist (b. 1714) August 19 – Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer (born 1727) August 31 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (born 1726) September 22 – Sayat-Nova, composer and musician (born 1712) October 3 – John Christopher Smith, English composer (born 1712) October 11 – Franz Christoph Neubauer, German composer (born 1750) October 25 – Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini, Italian composer (born 1723) November 3 – Antonio Ripa, Spanish composer (b. 1721) November 6 – Georg Benda, composer (b. 1722) November 19 – Thomas Linley the elder, conductor and composer (b. 1733) December 6 – Sofia Liljegren, Finnish soprano (b. 1765)

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