1779 in music
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Events
- February 16 â Composer William Boyce is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal.[1]
- March 7 â Griffith Jones, aged about 21, is recommended for membership of the Royal Society of Musicians.[2]
- April â The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.
- December 26 â Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef MysliveÄek's new opera Armida.
- The opera house at Eszterháza burns down.
- Mezzo-soprano Luigia Polzelli and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of Joseph Haydn.
Opera
- Johann Christian Bach â Amadis de Gaule (premiered Dec. 14 in Paris)
- Domenico Cimarosa
- L'infedeltà fedele
- L'italiana in Londra (premiered Dec. 28 in Rome)
- Il matrimonio per raggiro
- Christoph Willibald Gluck â Iphigénie en Tauride (premiered May 18 in Paris)
- André Ernest Modeste Grétry â L'amant jaloux (first published, premiered 1778)
- Joseph Haydn â L'isola disabitata
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart â Zaide
- Giovanni Paisiello â Demetrio, R.1.59
- Antonio Salieri â Il Talismano
Classical music
- Anna Amalia â Organ Trio in C major
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.55
- Rondo in E major, Wq. 57, H.265
- Rondo in F major, Wq. 57, H.266
- Claude-Bénigne Balbastre â Sonates en Quatuor, Op. 3 (Paris)
- William Billings â Music in Miniature
- William Boyce â 10 Voluntaries for the Organ
- Muzio Clementi
- 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
- 3 Piano Duets and 3 Sonatas, Op. 3
- François Joseph Gossec â Symphonie Concertante du Ballet de Mirza, B.90
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 70 in D major
- Symphony No. 71 in B-flat major, Hob.I:71
- Symphony No. 75 in D Major
- Aria: "Quando la rosa"
- Michael Haydn â Symphony No.23 in D major, MH 287, P.43
- Johann Adam Hiller â "Lieder und Arien aus Sophiens Reise", compilation including pieces from Mozart.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Kommet her, ihr frechen Sünder, K.146/317b
- Mass in C major, K.317 (Composed March 23, Premiered April 4 in Salzburg)
- Symphony No.32 in G major, K.318 (Composed April 26)
- Symphony No.33 in B-flat major, K.319
- Serenade in D major, "Posthorn" K.320
- Vesperae solennes de Dominica in C. K.321
- Church Sonata in C major, K.329/317a
- 2 Marches, K.335/320a
- Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K.364/320d
- Concerto in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K.365/316a
- Johann Heinrich Rolle â Thirza und ihre Söhne (oratorio)
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Mass in E-flat major
- Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges â 2 Symphonies, Op.11
- Antonio Salieri â Organ Concerto in C major
- William Shrubsole â "Miles's Lane (All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name)", in The Gospel Magazine and Moral Miscellany, Vol.6.
- Maria Carolina Wolf â "Die Rose"
- Carl Friedrich Zelter â Viola Concerto in E-flat major
Methods and theory writings
- Joseph Amiot â Mémoire sur la musique des Chinois
- Anton Bemitzrieder â Nouvel essai sur l'harmonie
- François Vincent Corbelin â Méthode de Harpe
- Franz Paul Rigler â Anleitung zum Klavier
- Francisco Inácio Solano â Novo tratado de musica metrica, e rythmica
- Francesco Antonio Vallotti â Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the scientific theory and practice of modern music)
Births
- January 8 â John White, organist and composer
- January 15 â Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
- February 1 â Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer (died 1818)
- February 2 â Georg Heinrich Lux, organist and composer (died 1861)
- February 5 â François van Campenhout, singer and composer (d. 1848)
- February 17 â Wilhelm Friedrich Riem, composer (died 1857)
- February 22 â Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer (d. 1813)
- February 23 â Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (d. 1867)
- February 28 â Henry Darondeau, composer (died 1865)
- March 1 â Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer (d. 1839)
- March 13 â Oliver Shaw, composer (d. 1848)
- April 11 â Louise Reichardt, German composer (died 1826)
- April 21 â William Knyvett, composer
- May 28 â Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
- June 23 â Johann Baptist Schiedermayr, composer (died 1840)
- July 20 â Ignaz Schuster, bass and composer (died 1835)
- August 1 â Francis Scott Key, songwriter (died 1843)[3]
- September 8 â Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer (died 1853)
- September 10 â Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
- October 15
- August Ferdinand Häser, composer (died 1844)
- Johan Olof Wallin, songwriting bishop
- November 14 â Adam Oehlenschläger poet and lyricist (died 1850)
- date unknown
- Georges-Joseph-Laurent Lambert, composer (died 1852)
Deaths
- January 20 â David Garrick, librettist (born 1717)
- February 7 â William Boyce, composer, 69[4]
- February 12 â Hinrich Philip Johnsen, composer (born 1717)
- April 6 â Tommaso Traetta, composer, 52[5]
- April 7 â Martha Ray, singer, 32/33 (murdered)[6]
- June 6 â Joseph Inchbald, actor and singer, 44[7]
- November 27 â Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist, 82[8]
- December 5 â Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist, 70[9]
- December 28 â Gennaro Manna, composer, 64[10]
- December - Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76[11]
- unknown date â Edward Jones, Welsh composer, 49/50[12]