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1794 in music

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This is a list of events in music in 1794. This year is notable for the overlap of compositions by both Haydn and Beethoven, a critical turning point in the history of music, and by the horrific execution by guillotine of a whole generation of French composers and poets in July, at the end of the Reign of Terror.

Events

  • Joseph Haydn begins his second visit to London
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is expelled from the palace in Johannesberg after a dispute with his patron Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, ending nearly a quarter of a century in his service there.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven – String Trio No. 1 in E-flat major
  • William Billings – The Continental Harmony
  • Benjamin Carr – The Federal Overture
  • Domenico Cimarosa – Il trionfo della fede, sacred oratorio premiered May 3 in Naples
  • Muzio Clementi
    • Violin Sonata in C major, Op.30
    • Flute Sonata in A major, Op.31
    • 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 33
    • Piano Trio, WO 6
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek – 12 Leçons progressives
  • Anton Eberl – Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 1
  • Joseph Eybler
    • Christmas Oratorio
    • 3 String Quartets, Op. 1
  • Lev Gurilyov – Piano Sonata No.1
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 100 in G major, "Military"
    • Symphony No. 101 in D major, "Clock"
    • Symphony No. 102 in B-flat major, Hob.I:102
    • Divertimento in C major, Hob.IV:1
    • Divertimento in G major, Hob.IV:4
    • Piano Trios, Op.36
    • Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:32
    • Piano Sonata No. 51 in D major, Hob XVI:51
    • Piano Sonata No. 52 in E-flat, Hob XVI:52
    • 6 Psalms, Hob.XXIII:suppl.
    • 6 English Canzonettas, Hob.XXVIa:25-30
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 3 Fugues, Op. 7
  • Jean Xavier Lefèvre – Clarinet Concerto No.4 in G minor, IJL 1
  • Johann Simon Mayr – La Passione, oratorio in Italian
  • Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Chant du départ
  • F. D Mouchy – La Mort de Louis XVI, Op.3
  • William Parkinson – 3 Sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord, Op. 1
  • William Parsons – The Court Minuets for His Majesty's Birth Day, 1794
  • Ignaz Pleyel – 3 Keyboard Trios, B.446-448
  • Pierre Rode – Air varié, Op.10
  • Antonio Rosetti – Symphony in F major, M.A49/I:25 or 24
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Rust – Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in D major, CzaR 11
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.27 in C major
  • Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse – Piano Sonatas No. 5-8

Opera

  • Luigi Cherubini – Eliza (premiered Dec. 13 in Paris)
  • Domenico Cimarosa
    • Le astuzie femminili (premiered Aug. 26 in Naples)
    • Penelope (premiered Dec. 26 in Naples)
  • Francois-Joseph Gossec – Le triomphe de la République, RH 618 (divertissement, premiered Jan. 27 in Paris)
  • Friedrich Heinrich Himmel – Il primo navigatore
  • Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo
  • Étienne Méhul – Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Das Gespenst mit der Trommel

Methods and theory writings

  • Matthew Camidge – Instructions, 8 Sonatinas, and Useful Preludes
  • Francois Devienne – Nouvelle méthode théorique et pratique pour la flûte
  • Anton Joseph Hampel – Méthode pour Cor
  • Nicola Sala – Regole del contrappunto pratico

Births

  • January 6 – Kašpar Mašek, composer (d. 1873)
  • April 7 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, tenor
  • April 9
    • Aristide Farrenc, musician and music publisher (died 1865)
    • Theobald Boehm, composer and flautist (died 1881)
  • May 23 – Ignaz Moscheles, composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
  • August 10 – Princess Amalie of Saxony, composer (d. 1870)
  • September 10 – François Benoist, organist and composer (d. 1878)
  • September 16 – Wenzel Gährich, composer (died 1864)
  • September 29 – William Michael Rooke, violinist and composer (d. 1849)
  • October 4 – Justina Casagli, operatic soprano
  • October 7 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (died 1827)
  • October 13 – Anselm Hüttenbrenner, composer (d. 1868)
  • October 18 – Ferdinand Schubert, Austrian composer (died 1859)
  • October 23 – Joseph Panny, composer and violinist (died 1838)
  • October 29 – William Bingham Tappan, hymnist (died 1849)
  • November 3 – William Cullen Bryant, patron of the arts and poet (died 1878)
  • December 6 – Luigi Lablache, operatic bass
  • date unknown
    • Mirza Shafi Vazeh, lyricist (died 1852)

Deaths

  • April 26 – Johan Foltmar, composer (b. 1714)
  • May 6 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, composer and organist (born 1734)
  • July 13 – Josse-François-Joseph Benaut, composer and musician (born 1741)
  • July 17 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, composer (born 1749) (executed by guillotine)
  • July 22 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde, composer (born 1734), (executed by guillotine)
  • July 25 – André Chénier, lyricist (born 1762) (executed by guillotine)
  • August 7 – , composer (born 1740)
  • August 11 – Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer (born 1722)
  • August 25 – Leopold August Abel, composer (b. 1717)
  • November 9 – Gregory Skovoroda, poet and composer (b. 1722)
  • November 20 – Mattia Verazi, Italian librettist (born c. 1730)
  • November 22 – Alison Cockburn, lyricist (born 1712)

References

References

  1. (1794). "Agreeable Songster 2".
  2. "Memoirs Of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi, a Project Gutenberg eBook.".
  3. "Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (05 septembre 1734 - 22 juillet 1794)".
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