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Events

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  January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.^[1]


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  January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.^[1]


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  February 9 – The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.^[1]


• March – 28-year-old Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna.


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  April 24 – Mozart writes to his father Leopold, recommending the work of newcomer Ignaz Pleyel.^[1]


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  April 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B-flat for Violin and Keyboard (K.454) for the first time, in the presence of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.


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  May 8 – Pasquale Anfossi's drama with music, Issipile, based on words by Metastasio, receives its première at the King's Theatre, London.^[1]


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  May 27–June 5 – Handel Commemoration concerts in Westminster Abbey, London.


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  June 13 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.


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  July 10 – Domenico Cimarosa's drama with music, L’Olimpiade, based on words by Metastasio, receives its première at the Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.^[1]


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  August 17 – Luigi Boccherini is given a pay rise of 12000 reals by his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.^[1]


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  August 28 – In Vienna, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger's Mass in E flat is performed for the first time, with the orchestral arrangement replaced by organ accompaniment, in accordance with the preferences of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.^[1]


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  December 11 – Mozart is received into the Masonic lodge "Beneficence".


• The first opera is mounted at the unfinished Teatro Nuovo in Bergamo, Lombardy, Giuseppe Sarti's Medonte, re di Epiro.

Classical music

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  Michael Haydn – Symphony in B-flat major; Symphony in C major


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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  • Piano Concerto No. 14
  
  
  • Piano Concerto No. 15
  
  


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  Giovanni Battista Viotti – Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor

Opera

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  Luigi Cherubini – L'Idalide
  


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  André Grétry – Richard Coeur de Lion
  


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  Joseph Haydn – Armida
  


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  Thomas Linley – The Spanish Rivals
  


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  Antonio Salieri
  
  • Les Danaïdes
  
  
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    Il ricco d'un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
  
  


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  Andrea Luchesi – Ademira
  


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  Giovanni Paisiello – Il Re Teodoro
  


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  Niccolò Piccinni – Diane et Endymion
  

Births

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  January 1 – William Beale, composer and organist (died 1854)


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  January 27 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (died 1851)


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  January 29 – Ferdinand Ries, composer


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  February 3 – John Fane, composer and diplomat


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  February 27 – Job Plimpton, composer (died 1864)


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  March 25 – François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher (died 1871)


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  April 8 – Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (died 1849)


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  June 14 – Francesco Morlacchi, opera composer (died 1841)


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  July 27 – George Onslow, composer (died 1853)


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  August 5 – Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor (died 1859)


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  August 23
  
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    Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano (died 1853)
  
  
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    Henriette Löfman, composer (died 1836)
  
  


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  October 15 – Thomas Hastings, composer (died 1872)


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  November 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer


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  date unknown – Samuel Simms, organist and composer (died 1868)

Deaths

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  March 4 – Ann Cargill, opera singer (born 1760) (drowned)


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  July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (born 1710)


• August – Louis Anseaume, opera librettist


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  August 6 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (born 1726)


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  August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (born 1706)


• September
  
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    John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
  
  
  • 
    Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
  
  


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  September 12 – Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (born 1750)


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  October 5 (or 1785) – Antonín Kammel, violinist and composer (born 1730)


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  November 6 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (born 1762)


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  date unknown
  
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    John Pixell, poet and composer (born 1725)
  
  
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    Yekaterina Sinyavina, pianist and composer (date of birth unknown)
  
  

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