1783 in music
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Events
- August 23 â Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
- September 24 â The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisielloâs opera Il mondo della luna.[1]
- John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England.
Classical music
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Missa Ultima in g minor
- Carl Friedrich Abel â 6 Symphonies, Op. 17
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger â Mass in D major
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach â 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 3 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.58
- Ludwig van Beethoven â Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 ("Kurfuerstensonaten") in E-flat, F, and D
- Muzio Clementi
- 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.9
- 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.10
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf â Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses
- Jane Mary Guest â 6 Sonatas, Op. 1
- Joseph Haydn
- Baryton Trio Hob. XI:101, 103, and 108
- Cello Concerto in D
- Michael Haydn â Symphony in E-flat major
- Anton Kraft â 3 Cello Sonatas, Op. 2
- Joseph Martin Kraus â String Quartets, Op.1 (published, Berlin: J.J. Hummel, Plate 561)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Luci care, luci belle, K.346/439a
- Mia speranza adorata, K.416
- Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K.418
- Duo for Violin and Viola, K.423
- Duo for Violin and Viola, K.424
- Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425
- Great Mass in C minor, K. 427
- Così dunque tradisci, K.432/421a
- Ecco quel fiero istante, K.436
- Mi lagnerò tacendo, K.437
- Due pupille amabili, K.439
- Country Dance in G major, K.610
- Giovanni Paisiello â La passione di Gesù Cristo
- Antonio Rosetti â Sextet in D major, M.B24/II:19
- Daniel Gottlob Türk â 12 Leichte Klaviersonaten
- Giovanni Battista Viotti
- Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
- Violin Concerto No.10 in B-flat major
- Samuel Wesley â Magnificat
Opera
- Felice Alessandri â Artaserse
- Pasquale Anfossi â La finta ammalata
- Domenico Cimarosa
- I due baroni di Rocca Azzurra
- Oreste
- La villana riconosciuta
- Vincenzo Fabrizi â I tre gobbi rivali
- André Grétry â La Caravane du Caire
- Niccolò Piccinni â Didon
- Antonio Sacchini â Renaud
- William Shield â The Poor Soldier
Published popular music
- "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns
Methods and theory writings
- Anton Bemetzrieder
- Abstract of the Talents and Knowledge of a Musician
- New Lessons for the Harpsichord
- Johann Michael Weissbeck â Protestationschrift oder Exemplarische Widerlegung
- Georg Friedrich Wolf â Kurzer aber deutlicher Unterricht im Klavierspielen
Births
- January 12 â Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847)
- January 20 â Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- January 26 â Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856)
- February 9 â Vasily Zhukovsky, librettist and poet (died 1852)
- February 15 â Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
- March 8 â Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, German composer (died 1846)
- March 26 â Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
- April 21 â Reginald Heber, librettist and clergyman (died 1826)
- May 10 â Niccola Benvenuti, composer
- May 14 â Jacques Jules Bouffil, composer and musician (died 1868)
- May 22 â Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer (died 1866)
- June 29 â August Alexander Klengel, pianist, organist and composer
- September 23 â Jane Taylor, librettist and poet (died 1824)
- October 13 â Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
- December 14 â Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
- December 28 â Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, composer
- date unknown â Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau, French librettist (died 1832)
Deaths
- January 5 â Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt, flautist, music theorist and composer (born 1710)
- January 10 â Phanuel Bacon, librettist and writer (born 1700)
- January 14 â Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (born 1682)
- January 31 â Caffarelli, castrato singer (born 1710)
- February 10 â James Nares, composer (born 1715)
- February 21 â Richard Duke, violin maker (born 1718)[2]
- March 1 â Thomas Lowe, tenor (born c.1719)
- March 23 â Gaspard Fritz, composer
- April 7 â Franz Johann Habermann, composer (born 1706)
- April 7 â Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (born 1711)
- May 11 â Juliane Reichardt, composer and pianist (born 1752)
- May 18 â Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (born 1741)
- July 27 â Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (born 1721)
- October 7 â William Tans'ur, composer, teacher and arranger of hymn tunes (born c.1706)[3]
- October 29 â Jean le Rond d'Alembert, music theorist and philosopher (born 1717)
- November 3 â Charles Collé, songwriter (born 1709)
- December 16 â Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (born 1699)
- December 20 â Antonio Soler, composer (born 1729)