1784 in music
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Events
- January 5 â In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.[1]
- January 7 â Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.[1]
- February 9 â The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[1]
- March â 28-year-old Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna.
- April 24 â Mozart writes to his father Leopold, recommending the work of newcomer Ignaz Pleyel.[1]
- April 29 â Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B-flat for Violin and Keyboard (K.454) for the first time, in the presence of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
- May 27 â June 5 â Handel Commemoration concerts in Westminster Abbey, London.
- June 13 â Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.
- August 17 â Luigi Boccherini is given a pay rise of 12000 reals by his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.[1]
- August 28 â In Vienna, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger's Mass in E flat is performed for the first time, with the orchestral arrangement replaced by organ accompaniment, in accordance with the preferences of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.[1]
- December 11 â Mozart is received into the Masonic lodge "Beneficence".
- The first opera is mounted at the unfinished Teatro Nuovo in Bergamo, Lombardy, Giuseppe Sarti's Medonte, re di Epiro.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 0
- Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier â Journal d'orgue 1â9
- Niel Gow â A Collection of Strathspey Reels, etc.
- Joseph Haydn
- 6 Divertimentos, Hob.IV:6â11
- Keyboard Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI:40 (no. 54)
- Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, Hob.XVI:41 (no. 55)
- Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI:42 (no. 56)
- 24 Lieder, Hob.XXVIa:13â24 (second book)
- Michael Haydn â Symphony in B-flat major; Symphony in C major
- Sabine Hitzelberger â Für fülende Seelen am Klavier
- Edward Jones â Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including "Deck the Halls"
- Leopold Kozeluch â Keyboard Concerto in F major, P.IV:1
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 14
- Piano Concerto No. 15
- Giovanni Paisiello â Six quartets, Op. 1
- Joseph Reicha â Cello Concerto in D major
- Giovanni Battista Viotti â Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi â Issipile, May 8, King's Theatre, London.[1]
- Luigi Cherubini â L'Idalide
- Domenico Cimarosa
- L'apparenza inganna
- Artaserse
- I due supposti conti
- I matrimoni impensati
- L'Olimpiade, July 10, Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.[1]
- La vanità delusa
- André Grétry
- Joseph Haydn â Armida
- Thomas Linley â The Spanish Rivals
- Antonio Salieri
- Les Danaïdes
- Il ricco d'un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
- Andrea Luchesi â Ademira
- Giovanni Paisiello â Il Re Teodoro
- Niccolò Piccinni â Diane et Endymion
- Antonio Sacchini â Dardanus
Births
- January 1 â William Beale, composer and organist (died 1854)
- January 27 â Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (died 1851)
- January 29 â Ferdinand Ries, composer
- February 3 â John Fane, composer and diplomat
- February 27 â Job Plimpton, composer (died 1864)
- March 25 â François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher (died 1871)
- April 8 â Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (died 1849)
- June 14 â Francesco Morlacchi, opera composer (died 1841)
- July 27 â George Onslow, composer (died 1853)
- August 5 â Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor (died 1859)
- August 23
- Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano (died 1853)
- Henriette Löfman, composer (died 1836)
- October 15 â Thomas Hastings, composer (died 1872)
- October 16 â Karl Keller, composer and flautist (died 1855)
- November 7 â Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
- date unknown â Samuel Simms, organist and composer (died 1868)
- November 28 â Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)
Deaths
- March 4 â Ann Cargill, opera singer (born 1760) (drowned)
- July 1 â Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (born 1710)[2]
- August â Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
- August 6 â Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (born 1726)
- August 4 â Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (born 1706)
- September â John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
- September 5 â Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
- September 12 â Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (born 1750)
- October 5 (or 1785) â AntonÃn Kammel, violinist and composer (born 1730)
- November 6 â Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (born 1762)
- date unknown
- John Pixell, poet and composer (born 1725)
- Yekaterina Sinyavina, pianist and composer (date of birth unknown)