1796 in music
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Events
- The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
- Notturno in D major, Op.42
- Ah! Perfido, Op.65
- Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, WoO 32
- Sonatina for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43a
- Adagio for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43b
- Allegretto, WoO 53
- Abschiedsgesang an Wiens Bürger, WoO 121
- Francois-Adrien Boieldieu â Duo No.2 in B-flat major for Harp and Piano
- Muzio Clementi
- Concerto for piano in C major
- Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 35
- Johann Baptist Cramer â Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 16
- Adalbert Gyrowetz â 3 String Quartets, Op. 13
- Joseph Haydn
- Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major[1]
- Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob.XX:2
- Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:9 Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War")
- Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:10
- Guarda qui, che lo vedrai, Hob.XXVa:1
- Saper vorrei se m'ami, Hob.XXVa:2
- Hyacinthe Jadin â 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 5
- Rodolphe Kreutzer â Ãtudes ou caprices
- Ignaz Pleyel â 6 Duos, B.574-579
- Giovanni Punto â Horn Concerto No.6
- Jakub Jan Ryba â Missa pastoralis bohemica
- Carl Friedrich Zelter â 12 Lieder am Clavier zu singen, Z.120
Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa
- I nemici generosi
- Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
- Nicolas Dalayrac â Marianne
- Johann Simon Mayr â La Lodoiska
- Antonio Salieri â Il Moro
- Gaspare Spontini â Li puntigli delle donne
- Peter Winter â Das unterbrochene Opferfest
Popular music
- "It Was A' For Our Rightful King", 1796 Jacobite song with lyrics by Robert Burns
Methods and theory writings
- Charles Burney â Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
- Wenzel Hause â Méthode de contrebasse
- António da Silva Leite â Estudo de guitarra
- Bernard Viguerie â L'art de toucher le piano-forte
Births
- January 23 â Jean Reboul, librettist and poet (died 1864)
- February 17 â Giovanni Pacini, composer (died 1867)
- June 14 â Mathilda d'Orozco, composer (died 1863)
- June 25 â Ferdinando Giorgetti, Italian composer (died 1867)
- July 22 â Carlo Pepoli, librettist and politician (died 1881)
- July 23 â Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868)
- July 24 â Jan Czeczot, librettist and poet (died 1847)
- July 28 â Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (died 1859)
- July 29 â Christian Winther, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
- August 25 â James Lick, piano builder (died 1876)
- August 27 â Elise Barensfeld, soprano (died after 1820)
- September 3 â Henriette Widerberg, soprano (died 1872)
- September 20 â Franz Wilhelm Ferling, composer and oboist (died 1874)
- November 30 â Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)
- December 9 â Emilie Zumsteeg, composer and musician (died 1857)
- date unknown â MirzÉ ÅÉfi Vazeh, lyricist and poet (died 1852)
Deaths
- January 1 â Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician, 60
- February 16 (or April 16) â Caterina Gabrielli, operatic soprano, 65
- February 17 â James Macpherson, librettist and writer (born 1736)
- February 28 â Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer and violinist (born 1739)
- March 19 â Stephen Storace, composer, 33
- June 8 â Felice Giardini, violinist and composer, 80
- July 17 â Thomas Sanders Dupuis, English composer (born 1733)
- July 21 â Robert Burns, librettist and poet (born 1759)
- August 12 â Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, librettist and singer (born 1751)
- October 17 â Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso (born c.1748)
- October 31 â Thomas Haxby, musical instrument maker, 67
- date unknown
- Luffman Atterbury, carpenter, builder and musician
- Samuel Green, organ builder (born 1740)
- Nicola Sabatino, composer (born 1705)