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1789 in music

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Events

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
  • Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
  • Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
  • Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
  • Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
  • Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
  • William Hamilton Bird – The Oriental Miscellany
  • William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quintet in G major, Kr.190
  • Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonatas No. 4–6, Op. 10
  • John Gunn – 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
    • Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
  • Leopold Anton Kozeluch – Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Clarinet Quintet in A
    • Un moto di gioia mi sento, K.579
  • Vasilj Alekseevič Paškevič – Muzyka operyi Komitscheskoi Fewej
  • Philip Phile – "The President's March"
  • Ignaz Pleyel
    • String Quintet in F major, B.285
    • 3 Flute Quartets, B.381–383
    • 6 Violin Duos, B.513–518
  • Karl Leopold Röllig – Kleine Tonstücke für die Glasharmonika
  • Daniel Gottlob Türk – Klaviersonaten, größtenteils für Kenner
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.16 in E minor

Opera

  • Domenico Cimarosa – I Due Baroni
  • André Grétry – Raoul Barbe-Bleue
  • Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne – Nephté
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Nina
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Brenno; Claudine von Villa Bella
  • Antonio Salieri – Il Pastor fido; La Cifra; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
  • Stephen Storace – The Haunted Tower
  • Paul Wranitzky – Oberon, König der Elfen

Methods and theory writings

  • André Grétry – Mémoires, ou essai sur la musique
  • John Gunn – The Theory and Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
  • Manuel da Paixão Ribeiro – Nova arte de viola
  • Luigi Antonio Sabbatini – Elementi teorici della musica
  • Daniel Gottlob Türk
    • Klavierscule
    • Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten

Births

  • January 30 – George Augustus Kollmann, composer
  • February 1 – Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer (d. 1861)
  • February 8 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer (d. 1878)
  • February 15 – Friedrich Fesca, composer (d. 1826)
  • May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German opera singer and actress (d.1828)
  • June 27 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (d. 1860)
  • September 1 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
  • October 18 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer
  • October 24 – Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer (d. 1855)
  • October 26 – Joseph Mayseder
  • October 28 – Johann Schneider, composer
  • November 13 – Martin de Ron, composer
  • December 8 – John Fawcett, composer (d. 1867)
  • December 14 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (d. 1831)

Deaths

  • January 1 – Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
  • January 2 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
  • January 20 – Johann Christoph Oley, composer
  • February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
  • May 10 – Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
  • May 12 – Robert Bremner, music collector and publisher (born 1713)
  • June 7 – Václav Jan Kopřiva (b. 1708)
  • June 14 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
  • July 4 – Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poet and conductor (b. 1729)
  • July 15 – Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
  • September 11 – Luka Sorkočević, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
  • September 12 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 1709)
  • October 24 – Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
  • date unknown
    • Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)
    • Andreas Lidl, British composer (born c. 1740)
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