1794 in music

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This is a list of events in music in 1794. This year is notable for the overlap of compositions by both Haydn and Beethoven, a critical turning point in the history of music, and by the horrific execution by guillotine of a whole generation of French composers and poets in July, at the end of the Reign of Terror.

Events

  • "Looney's Lamentation for Miss Margery Muggins", from British panto performance. [1] Grew in popularity in UK after being covered in 1809 by Joseph Grimaldi in Castles in the Air or Columbine Cowslip[2]

Classical music

Opera

Methods and theory writings

Births

Deaths

References

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