Events Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great, where he will stay for eight years. Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
Popular music Daniel Dow – "Money Musk" Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady
Opera Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta Giovanni Paisiello – Il finto spettro (December 26, Mannheim) Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli Tommaso Traetta – Germondo
Classical music Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 6 Keyboard Trios, Wq.89 3 Keyboard Trios, Wq.90 Johann Christian Bach – Die Amerikanerin Luigi Boccherini – 6 String Quintets, G.277-282 (Op.13) Felice Giardini – String Quartet in E-flat major William Goodwin – Voluntary XII in D major François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré Johann Wilhelm Hässler – 6 Keyboard Sonatas James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 8 ("Lützow"), K.246 Haffner Serenade, K.250 Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 61, Hob.I:61 Juliane Reichardt – An den Mond Antonio Salieri – La Passione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo für Soli, vierstimmigen Chor und Orchester Carl Stamitz – 6 Quartets, Op. 14 Daniel Gottlob Türk – 6 Keyboard Sonatas, Sammlung 1 Johann Adolph Hasse - Te Deum in G major
Methods and theory writings
Charles Burney – A General History of Music, vol. 1 (vol. 2 published 1782, vols. 3 and 4 in 1789) John Hawkins – A General History of the Science and Practice of Music
Births January 24 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer February 18 – John Parry, composer February 21 – Vincenzo Lavigna, composer March 31 – Joseph Küffner, composer (died 1856) April 8 – Thaddäus Weigl, composer April 27 – Hyacinthe Jadin, composer (died 1800) May 10 – George Thomas Smart, composer May 12 – Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer May 13 – Charles Ots and Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composers June 1 – John George Schetky, composer August 4 – Wenzel Sedlak, composer August 15 – Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer August 16 – Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer August 19 – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director August 29 – Georg Friedrich Treitschke, librettist (died 1842) December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
Deaths February 13 – Luis Misón, composer, 50 April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67 May 6 – James Kent, composer, 76 June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53 November 29 – Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69 date unknown Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown) Josep Carcoler, composer, 78 Aaron Williams, composer, 45 References