1785 in music
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Events
- January 1 â Giovanni Paisiello officially leaves his employment at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, having returned to Italy some months earlier.[1]
- January 12 â Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is produced by impresario Pasquale Bondini's company in Dresden.[2]
- January 15 â The first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn (or possibly just three of them) is given in Mozart's own home.[1]
- January 21 â Soprano Nancy Storace, who was about to give birth, was replaced as Rosina in a Vienna production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il barbiere di Siviglia by Luisa Laschi, to great acclaim.[3]
- February 7 â Leopold Mozart leaves Munich for Vienna, with a pupil, Heinrich Marchand, in tow.[1]
- February 26 â Polish violinist Feliks Janiewicz makes what was probably his debut as a soloist in a concert at the Burgtheater in Vienna.[4]
- March 7 â King Ferdinand I of Naples awards a lifetime annual salary of 1,200 ducats to Giovanni Paisiello, on the understanding that the latter writes one new opera every year.[1]
- March 28 â Domenico Cimarosa becomes second organist at the Chapel Royal of Naples.[1]
- September 19 â Amélie-Julie Candeille makes her Comédie-Française début as a singer.[5]
- October 13 â The Lord Chamberlain, James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, refuses to grant a licence to Giovanni Gallini for his Italian Opera House in London, unless he appoints a Mr. Crawford as deputy manager.[6]
- October 26 â Joseph Haydn receives a visit from Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, to whom he gives a guided tour of Schloss Esterházy.[1]
- November 22 â The Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, is officially opened.[1]
- Composer John Antes is appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England[7]
- Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.[8]
- Opera composer Michele Mortellari relocates to London from his native Italy.[9]
- Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany appoints Filippo Maria Gherardeschi organist and maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Conventuale dei Cavalieri di S Stefano at Pisa.[10]
- Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & Konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.[11]
Bands formed
- Band of the Coldstream Guards (16 May)
Published popular music
- "Cara sposa", music by Johann Christian Bach from the cantata Rinaldo ed Armide (lost)[12]
- "Song of the Page", music by William Shield from Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro[12]
- "Black-eyed Susan", by Robert Broderip[12]
Classical music
- Carl Friedrich Abel â 4 Trio Sonatas, WK 98â101 (Op. 16)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach â 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 2 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.59
- Johann Christian Bach
- 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.10 (posthumously)
- 2 Symphonies, Op. 18 (posthumously)
- Ludwig van Beethoven â Three quartets for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello, in Eâ major, D major, and C major, WoO 36
- William Billings â "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, We Will Go Into The House Of Ye Lord"
- Luigi Boccherini â Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G.483
- William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini
- 6 Flute Quartets, T.145â150
- 6 Trios for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, Op. 45
- Muzio Clementi â Six piano sonatas, Op. 13
- Francois Devienne â Flute Concerto No.3 in G major
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf â Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses (comp. 1781, first three published 1785)
- Anton Eberl â Symphony in C major
- Giuseppe (or Tomasso) Giordani â Caro Mio Ben
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony 83 in G minor "La poule"
- Symphony 85 in B-flat "La Reine"
- Symphony 87 in A major, Hob.I:87
- Overture in D major, Hob.Ia:4
- 12 Minuets, Hob.IX:8
- Piano Trios, Op.27 (Hob.XV:2,9,10)
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister
- Double Bass Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
- Keyboard Sonata in A major, WeiH 37
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
- String Quartet No.18 in A major, K.464
- String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
- Lied zur Gesellenreise, K. 468
- Davidde penitente, K. 469
- Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
- Piano Quartet No. 1, K. 478
- Giovanni Paisiello â Il ritorno di Perseo, R.2.6 (cantata)
- Ignaz Pleyel
- String Quartet
- Symphony in D major, B.126
- Joseph Bologne de Saint Georges â 6 String Quartets, Op. 14
- Johann Schenk â Die Weinlese (singspiel)
- John Stanley â "Delusive is the poet's dream"
- Gaetano Valeri â 12 Organ Sonatas, Op. 1
- Friedrich Witt â Symphony in A major
- Ernst Wilhelm Wolf â 3 String Quartets, Op. 3
- Maria Carolina Wolf â Glänzender sinket die Sonne
Opera
- Gaetano Andreozzi â Giasone e Medea
- Marcello Bernardini â Le donne bisbetiche, o sia L'antiquario fanatico, Teatro Pace, Rome (during carnival).[13]
- Pierre-Joseph Candeille â Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou, Opéra, Paris (3 May)[14]
- Luigi Cherubini â La finta principessa, King's Theatre, London (9 April)[15]
- Domenico Cimarosa â La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia
- Prosper-Didier Deshayes â Le Faux serment
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Der Hufschmied (Der gelehrte Hufschmied) (German version, text translated by J. C. Kaffka, of Il maniscalco, 1775), Breslau (13 May)[16]
- Robert Jephson â Campaign, or Love in the East Indies, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (12 May)[17]
- Thomas Linley
- Hurly-Burly, or The Fairy of the Well, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (26 December)[18]
- Strangers at Home, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (8 December)[19][18]
- Michele Mortellari
- Armida abbandonata, Teatro della Pergola, Florence (autumn)[20]
- L'infanta supposta, Teatro Ducale, Modena[20]
- Giovanni Paisiello â La grotta di Trofonio, R.1.69
- Ignaz Pleyel â Ifigenia in Aulide
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt â Artemisia
- Antonio Salieri â La Grotta di Trofonio
- Giuseppe Sarti â I finti eredi
- William Shield
- Stephen Storace â Gli sposi malcontenti, Burgtheater, Vienna (1 June)[24]
Births
- February 2 â Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano and composer (died 1845)
- March 3
- Nicola Petrini Zamboni, composer (died 1849)
- Giovanni Ricordi, violinist and opera publisher (died 1853)
- March 6 â Karol KurpiÅski, Polish composer (died 1857)
- March 19 â Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (died 1853)
- April 4 â Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (died 1859)[25]
- April 19 â Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (died 1858)
- August 18 â Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (died 1873)
- September 5 â Thomas Adams, organist and composer (died 1858)
- September 11 â Alpheus Babcock, American piano maker (died 1842)
- November 2 â Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (died 1849)
- date unknown
- Max Bohrer, German-born composer and cellist (died 1867)
- Zofia Dmuszewska, Polish actor and opera singer (died 1807)
Deaths
- January 3 â Baldassare Galuppi, composer (born 1706)[26]
- April 26 â Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer and noble (born 1744)[27]
- May 15 â Karel Blažej KopÅiva, organist and composer (born 1756)
- June 2 â Gottfried August Homilius, organist, cantor and composer (born 1714)[28]
- June 22 â Matthias Vanden Gheyn, composer (born 1721)[29]
- August 31 â Pietro Chiari, librettist (born 1712)
- November 19 â Bernard de Bury, composer (born 1720)[30]
- December 8 â Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (born 1717)
- December 29 â Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer (born 1716)[31]
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Gervasio, composer and musician (born c. 1725)
- Antoine Mahaut, composer and flautist (born 1719)