Events August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold. September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello’s opera Il mondo della luna. John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England.
Classical music Johann Adolph Hasse - Missa Ultima in g minor Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 17 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – Mass in D major Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 3 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.58 Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 ("Kurfuerstensonaten") in E-flat, F, and D Muzio Clementi 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.9 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.10 Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses Jane Mary Guest – 6 Sonatas, Op. 1 Joseph Haydn Baryton Trio Hob. XI:101, 103, and 108 Cello Concerto in D Michael Haydn – Symphony in E-flat major Anton Kraft – 3 Cello Sonatas, Op. 2 Joseph Martin Kraus – String Quartets, Op.1 (published, Berlin: J.J. Hummel, Plate 561) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Luci care, luci belle, K.346/439a Mia speranza adorata, K.416 Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K.418 Duo for Violin and Viola, K.423 Duo for Violin and Viola, K.424 Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425 Great Mass in C minor, K. 427 Così dunque tradisci, K.432/421a Ecco quel fiero istante, K.436 Mi lagnerò tacendo, K.437 Due pupille amabili, K.439 Country Dance in G major, K.610 Giovanni Paisiello – La passione di Gesù Cristo Antonio Rosetti – Sextet in D major, M.B24/II:19 Daniel Gottlob Türk – 12 Leichte Klaviersonaten Giovanni Battista Viotti Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G Violin Concerto No.10 in B-flat major Samuel Wesley – Magnificat
Opera Felice Alessandri – Artaserse Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata Domenico Cimarosa I due baroni di Rocca Azzurra Oreste La villana riconosciuta Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire Niccolò Piccinni – Didon Antonio Sacchini – Renaud William Shield – The Poor Soldier
Published popular music "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns
Methods and theory writings
Anton Bemetzrieder Abstract of the Talents and Knowledge of a Musician New Lessons for the Harpsichord Johann Michael Weissbeck – Protestationschrift oder Exemplarische Widerlegung Georg Friedrich Wolf – Kurzer aber deutlicher Unterricht im Klavierspielen
Births January 12 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847) January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860) January 26 – Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856) February 9 – Vasily Zhukovsky, librettist and poet (died 1852) February 15 – Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer March 8 – Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, German composer (died 1846) March 26 – Johann Baptist Weigl, composer April 21 – Reginald Heber, librettist and clergyman (died 1826) May 10 – Niccola Benvenuti, composer May 14 – Jacques Jules Bouffil, composer and musician (died 1868) May 22 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer (died 1866) June 29 – August Alexander Klengel, pianist, organist and composer September 23 – Jane Taylor, librettist and poet (died 1824) October 13 – Frantiszek Soltyk, composer December 14 – Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer December 28 – Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, composer date unknown – Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau, French librettist (died 1832)
Deaths January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt, flautist, music theorist and composer (born 1710) January 10 – Phanuel Bacon, librettist and writer (born 1700) January 14 – Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (born 1682) January 31 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (born 1710) February 10 – James Nares, composer (born 1715) February 21 – Richard Duke, violin maker (born 1718) March 1 – Thomas Lowe, tenor (born c.1719) March 23 – Gaspard Fritz, composer April 7 – Franz Johann Habermann, composer (born 1706) April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (born 1711) May 11 – Juliane Reichardt, composer and pianist (born 1752) May 18 – Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (born 1741) July 27 – Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (born 1721) October 7 – William Tans'ur, composer, teacher and arranger of hymn tunes (born c.1706) October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, music theorist and philosopher (born 1717) November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter (born 1709) December 16 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (born 1699) December 20 – Antonio Soler, composer (born 1729)
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