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1796 in music

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Events

  • The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    • Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
    • Notturno in D major, Op.42
    • Ah! Perfido, Op.65
    • Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, WoO 32
    • Sonatina for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43a
    • Adagio for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43b
    • Allegretto, WoO 53
    • Abschiedsgesang an Wiens Bürger, WoO 121
  • Francois-Adrien Boieldieu – Duo No.2 in B-flat major for Harp and Piano
  • Muzio Clementi
    • Concerto for piano in C major
    • Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 35
  • Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 16
  • Adalbert Gyrowetz – 3 String Quartets, Op. 13
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major
    • Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob.XX:2
    • Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:9 Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War")
    • Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:10
    • Guarda qui, che lo vedrai, Hob.XXVa:1
    • Saper vorrei se m'ami, Hob.XXVa:2
  • Hyacinthe Jadin – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 5
  • Rodolphe Kreutzer – Études ou caprices
  • Ignaz Pleyel – 6 Duos, B.574-579
  • Giovanni Punto – Horn Concerto No.6
  • Jakub Jan Ryba – Missa pastoralis bohemica
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter – 12 Lieder am Clavier zu singen, Z.120

Opera

  • Domenico Cimarosa
    • I nemici generosi
    • Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
  • Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
  • Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
  • Antonio Salieri – Il Moro
  • Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
  • Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest

Methods and theory writings

  • Charles Burney – Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
  • Wenzel Hause – Méthode de contrebasse
  • António da Silva Leite – Estudo de guitarra
  • Bernard Viguerie – L'art de toucher le piano-forte

Births

  • January 23 – Jean Reboul, librettist and poet (died 1864)
  • February 17 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (died 1867)
  • June 14 – Mathilda d'Orozco, composer (died 1863)
  • June 25 – Ferdinando Giorgetti, Italian composer (died 1867)
  • July 22 – Carlo Pepoli, librettist and politician (died 1881)
  • July 23 – Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868)
  • July 24 – Jan Czeczot, librettist and poet (died 1847)
  • July 28 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (died 1859)
  • July 29 – Christian Winther, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
  • August 25 – James Lick, piano builder (died 1876)
  • August 27 – Elise Barensfeld, soprano (died after 1820)
  • September 3 – Henriette Widerberg, soprano (died 1872)
  • September 20 – Franz Wilhelm Ferling, composer and oboist (died 1874)
  • November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)
  • December 9 – Emilie Zumsteeg, composer and musician (died 1857)
  • date unknown – Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh, lyricist and poet (died 1852)

Deaths

  • January 1 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician, 60
  • February 16 (or April 16) – Caterina Gabrielli, operatic soprano, 65
  • February 17 – James Macpherson, librettist and writer (born 1736)
  • February 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer and violinist (born 1739)
  • March 19 – Stephen Storace, composer, 33
  • June 8 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer, 80
  • July 17 – Thomas Sanders Dupuis, English composer (born 1733)
  • July 21 – Robert Burns, librettist and poet (born 1759)
  • August 12 – Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, librettist and singer (born 1751)
  • October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso (born c.1748)
  • October 31 – Thomas Haxby, musical instrument maker, 67
  • date unknown
    • Luffman Atterbury, carpenter, builder and musician
    • Samuel Green, organ builder (born 1740)
    • Nicola Sabatino, composer (born 1705)
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