1789 in music
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Events
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
- Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
- Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
- Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
- Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
- Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
- Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieriâs plots "which, however, have completely failed".
- Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven â Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
- William Hamilton Bird â The Oriental Miscellany
- William Crotch â The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf â String Quintet in G major, Kr.190
- Jean-Louis Duport â 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
- Jan Ladislav Dussek â Piano Sonatas No. 4â6, Op. 10
- John Gunn â 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
- Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
- Leopold Anton Kozeluch â Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Clarinet Quintet in A
- Un moto di gioia mi sento, K.579
- Vasilj AlekseeviÄ PaÅ¡keviÄ â Muzyka operyi Komitscheskoi Fewej
- Philip Phile â "The President's March"
- Ignaz Pleyel
- String Quintet in F major, B.285
- 3 Flute Quartets, B.381â383
- 6 Violin Duos, B.513â518
- Karl Leopold Röllig â Kleine Tonstücke für die Glasharmonika
- Daniel Gottlob Türk â Klaviersonaten, gröÃtenteils für Kenner
- Giovanni Battista Viotti â Violin Concerto No.16 in E minor
Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa â I Due Baroni
- André Grétry â Raoul Barbe-Bleue
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne â Nephté
- Giovanni Paisiello â Nina
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt â Brenno; Claudine von Villa Bella
- Antonio Salieri â Il Pastor fido; La Cifra; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
- Stephen Storace â The Haunted Tower
- Paul Wranitzky â Oberon, König der Elfen
Methods and theory writings
- André Grétry â Mémoires, ou essai sur la musique
- John Gunn â The Theory and Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
- Manuel da Paixão Ribeiro â Nova arte de viola
- Luigi Antonio Sabbatini â Elementi teorici della musica
- Daniel Gottlob Türk
- Klavierscule
- Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten
Births
- January 30 â George Augustus Kollmann, composer
- February 1 â Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer (d. 1861)
- February 8 â Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer (d. 1878)
- February 15 â Friedrich Fesca, composer (d. 1826)
- May 24 â Cathinka Buchwieser, German opera singer and actress (d.1828)
- June 27 â Friedrich Silcher, composer (d. 1860)
- September 1 â Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
- October 18 â Giovanni Tadolini, composer
- October 24 â Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer (d. 1855)
- October 26 â Joseph Mayseder
- October 28 â Johann Schneider, composer
- November 13 â Martin de Ron, composer
- December 8 â John Fawcett, composer (d. 1867)
- December 14 â Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (d. 1831)
Deaths
- January 1 â Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
- January 2 â Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
- January 20 â Johann Christoph Oley, composer
- February 2 â Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
- May 10 â Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
- May 12 â Robert Bremner, music collector and publisher (born 1713)
- June 7 â Václav Jan KopÅiva (b. 1708)
- June 14 â Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
- July 4 â Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poet and conductor (b. 1729)
- July 15 â Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
- September 11 â Luka SorkoÄeviÄ, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
- September 12 â Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 1709)
- October 24 â Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
- date unknown
- Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)
- Andreas Lidl, British composer (born c. 1740)