1787 in music

Events

Between January and April â Beethoven and Mozart: 16-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven goes to Vienna, intending to study with Mozart: it is possible that they meet and have some lessons together, but the declining health of Beethovens' mother forces him to return to Bonn.
February 1 â A posthumous performance of Antonio Sacchini's Ådipe Ã Colone at the Paris OpÃ©ra results in the previously unsuccessful opera becoming one of the most popular pieces in the repertoire for several decades.
August 10 â Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completes his famous serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik.
October 29 â Mozart's opera Don Giovanni is premiered under his baton at the Nostitzsches Nationaltheater in Prague, with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
December
- Mozart is appointed chamber composer to Emperor Joseph II in Vienna^[1] following the death of Gluck.
- Angelo Tarchi is appointed music director and composer at the King's Theatre in London.
Luigi Boccherini becomes court composer in Berlin.
Luigi Cherubini settles in Paris.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Fantasia in F-sharp minor, H.300
- Neue Melodien, H.781
William Brown â 3 Rondos
Charles Burney â Preludes, Fugues and Interludes for the Organ
Muzio Clementi
- Two Symphonies, Op. 18
- Musical Characteristics, Op. 19
- Piano Sonata, Op. 20
Michel Corrette â PiÃ¨ces pour lâorgue dans un genre nouveau
Francois Devienne â Flute Concerto No.7 in E minor
Jean-Louis Duport â Cello Concerto No.1 in A major, Op. 1
Giuseppe Gherardeschi â Sonata for Organ "In the Guise of a Military Band..."
Joseph Haydn
- The Seven Last Words of Christ
- Symphony No. 88 in G
- String Quartets, Op. 50 (String Quartets Nos. 36â41)
Franz Anton Hoffmeister â 2 Keyboard Sonatas, WeiH 80
Leopold Kozeluch
- Three Symphonies, Op. 22
- Three Symphonies, Op. 24
- Moise in Egitto
Joseph Martin Kraus â Symphony in E minor
Jose Lidon â 6 Piezas o Sonatas sueltas para Ã³rgano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik
- String Quintet No. 3 in C major
- String Quintet No. 4 in G minor
- Rondo in A minor, K.511
- Clarinet Quintet, K.Anh.91
- Musikalisches WÃ¼rfelspiel, K.516f
- Ein musikalischer SpaÃ (A Musical Joke)
- "Die Alte", K.517
- "Die Verschweigung", K.518
- "Das Lied der Trennung", K.519
- "Als Luise die Briefe", K.520
- "Abendempfindung", K.523
- "Die kleine Spinnerin", K.531
- 5 Country Dances, K.609
William Parsons â The Court Minuets for Her Majesty's Birth Day, 1787
Philip Phile â Violin Concerto (lost)
Ignaz Pleyel â 3 String Trios, B.401â403

January 31 â Ulric Guttinguer, librettist and writer (died 1866)
February 13 â James P. Carrell, singing teacher and composer (died 1854)
February 24 â Christian Frederik Barth, oboist and composer (died 1861)
March 1 â Tobias Haslinger, composer and publisher (died 1842)
April 14 â Charles-FranÃ§ois Plantade, French composer (died 1870)
April 26 â Ludwig Uhland, librettist and poet (died 1862)
August 15 â Alexander Alyabyev, composer (died 1851)
November 17 â Michele Carafa, composer (died 1872)
November 21 â Barry Cornwall, librettist and poet (died 1874)
November 25 â Franz Xaver Gruber, organist and composer of "Silent Night" (died 1863)
December 4 â Johan Fredrik Berwald, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1861)
December 14 â Maria Ludovika, patron of Beethoven and queen of Austria (died 1816)
date unknown
- Franz Xaver Gebel, German composer (died 1843)
- Catharina Torenberg, violinist (died 1866)

February 21 â Antonio RodrÃguez de Hita, composer (born 1722)
March 30 â Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, musician, composer and music collector (born 1723)
April 22 â Josef Starzer, Austrian composer (born 1726)
May 20 â Giovan Gualberto Brunetti, Italian composer (born 1706)
May 28 â Leopold Mozart, violinist, music teacher and composer (born 1719)
June â Ignazio Fiorillo, opera composer (born 1715)
June 20 â Carl Friedrich Abel, viola da gamba player and composer (born 1723)
July 13 â Ignazio Cirri, composer and musician (born 1711)
July 27 â Mary Linley, singer (born 1758)
August 5 â FranÃ§ois Francoeur, violinist and composer (born 1698)
August 18 â Stephen Paxton, composer and musician (born 1734)
November 15 â Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (born 1714)
November 23 â Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (born 1735)
December 9 â Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer, violinist and lutenist (born 1720)
date unknown â Edward Harwood (of Darwen), hymn-writer (born 1707)