1779 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • February 16 – Composer William Boyce is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal.[1]
  • March 7 – Griffith Jones, aged about 21, is recommended for membership of the Royal Society of Musicians.[2]
  • April – The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.
  • December 26 – Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera Armida.
  • The opera house at Eszterháza burns down.
  • Mezzo-soprano Luigia Polzelli and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of Joseph Haydn.

Opera

  • Johann Christian Bach – Amadis de Gaule (premiered Dec. 14 in Paris)
  • Domenico Cimarosa
    • L'infedeltà fedele
    • L'italiana in Londra (premiered Dec. 28 in Rome)
    • Il matrimonio per raggiro
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Tauride (premiered May 18 in Paris)
  • André Ernest Modeste Grétry – L'amant jaloux (first published, premiered 1778)
  • Joseph Haydn – L'isola disabitata
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Demetrio, R.1.59
  • Antonio Salieri – Il Talismano

Classical music

  • Anna Amalia – Organ Trio in C major
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
    • Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.55
    • Rondo in E major, Wq. 57, H.265
    • Rondo in F major, Wq. 57, H.266
  • Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Sonates en Quatuor, Op. 3 (Paris)
  • William Billings – Music in Miniature
  • William Boyce – 10 Voluntaries for the Organ
  • Muzio Clementi
    • 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
    • 3 Piano Duets and 3 Sonatas, Op. 3
  • François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie Concertante du Ballet de Mirza, B.90
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 70 in D major
    • Symphony No. 71 in B-flat major, Hob.I:71
    • Symphony No. 75 in D Major
    • Aria: "Quando la rosa"
  • Michael Haydn – Symphony No.23 in D major, MH 287, P.43
  • Johann Adam Hiller – "Lieder und Arien aus Sophiens Reise", compilation including pieces from Mozart.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Kommet her, ihr frechen Sünder, K.146/317b
    • Mass in C major, K.317 (Composed March 23, Premiered April 4 in Salzburg)
    • Symphony No.32 in G major, K.318 (Composed April 26)
    • Symphony No.33 in B-flat major, K.319
    • Serenade in D major, "Posthorn" K.320
    • Vesperae solennes de Dominica in C. K.341
    • Church Sonata in C major, K.329/317a
    • 2 Marches, K.335/320a
    • Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E-flat major, K.364/320d
    • Concerto in E-flat major for Two Pianos, K.365/316a
  • Johann Heinrich Rolle – Thirza und ihre Söhne (oratorio)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse - Mass in E-flat major
  • Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – 2 Symphonies, Op.11
  • Antonio Salieri – Organ Concerto in C major
  • William Shrubsole – "Miles's Lane (All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name)", in The Gospel Magazine and Moral Miscellany, Vol.6.
  • Maria Carolina Wolf – "Die Rose"
  • Carl Friedrich Zelter – Viola Concerto in E-flat major

Methods and theory writings

  • Joseph Amiot – Mémoire sur la musique des Chinois
  • Anton Bemitzrieder – Nouvel essai sur l'harmonie
  • François Vincent Corbelin – Méthode de Harpe
  • Franz Paul Rigler – Anleitung zum Klavier
  • Francisco Inácio Solano – Novo tratado de musica metrica, e rythmica
  • Francesco Antonio Vallotti – Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the scientific theory and practice of modern music)

Births

  • January 8 – John White, organist and composer
  • January 15 – Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
  • February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer (died 1818)
  • February 2 – Georg Heinrich Lux, organist and composer (died 1861)
  • February 5 – François van Campenhout, singer and composer (d. 1848)
  • February 17 – Wilhelm Friedrich Riem, composer (died 1857)
  • February 22 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer (d. 1813)
  • February 23 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (d. 1867)
  • February 28 – Henry Darondeau, composer (died 1865)
  • March 1 – Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer (d. 1839)
  • March 13 – Oliver Shaw, composer (d. 1848)
  • April 11 – Louise Reichardt, German composer (died 1826)
  • April 21 – William Knyvett, composer
  • May 28 – Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
  • June 23 – Johann Baptist Schiedermayr, composer (died 1840)
  • July 20 – Ignaz Schuster, bass and composer (died 1835)
  • August 1 – Francis Scott Key, songwriter (died 1843)[3]
  • September 8 – Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer (died 1853)
  • September 10 – Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
  • October 15
    • August Ferdinand Häser, composer (died 1844)
    • Johan Olof Wallin, songwriting bishop
  • November 14 – Adam Oehlenschläger poet and lyricist (died 1850)
  • date unknown

Deaths

  • January 20 – David Garrick, librettist (born 1717)
  • February 7 – William Boyce, composer, 69[4]
  • February 12 – Hinrich Philip Johnsen, composer (born 1717)
  • April 6 – Tommaso Traetta, composer, 52[5]
  • April 7 – Martha Ray, singer, 32/33 (murdered)[6]
  • June 6 – Joseph Inchbald, actor and singer, 44[7]
  • November 27 – Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist, 82[8]
  • December 5 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist, 70[9]
  • December 28 – Gennaro Manna, composer, 64[10]
  • December - Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76[11]
  • unknown date – Edward Jones, Welsh composer, 49/50[12]

References

  1. ↑ "William Boyce", Eighteenth Century English Music (rslade.co.uk)
  2. ↑ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
  3. ↑ Penton, Kemberly (September 14, 2016). "Remembering Francis Scott Key: The Man Behind America's National Anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner'". Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
  4. ↑ The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage. 1806. p. 21.
  5. ↑ Joseph Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. E. Moxon, Son, and Company. p. 541.
  6. ↑ McDonagh, Josephine (2003). Child Murder and British Culture, 1720–1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780521781930.
  7. ↑ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
  8. ↑ "Premiere Suite - Josse Boutmy". repertoire-explorer. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
  9. ↑ Burnett R. Toskey (1983). Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. B.R. Toskey. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-9601054-8-9.
  10. ↑ Rochus Freiherr von Liliencron; Franz X. von Wegele; Anton Bettelheim (1884). Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ...: Auf Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot.
  11. ↑ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  12. ↑ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.
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