1784 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.[1]
  • January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.[1]
  • February 9 – The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[1]
  • March – 28-year-old Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna.
  • April 24 – Mozart writes to his father Leopold, recommending the work of newcomer Ignaz Pleyel.[1]
  • April 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B-flat for Violin and Keyboard (K.454) for the first time, in the presence of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • May 27 – June 5 – Handel Commemoration concerts in Westminster Abbey, London.
  • June 13 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.
  • August 17 – Luigi Boccherini is given a pay rise of 12000 reals by his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.[1]
  • August 28 – In Vienna, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger's Mass in E flat is performed for the first time, with the orchestral arrangement replaced by organ accompaniment, in accordance with the preferences of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.[1]
  • December 11 – Mozart is received into the Masonic lodge "Beneficence".
  • The first opera is mounted at the unfinished Teatro Nuovo in Bergamo, Lombardy, Giuseppe Sarti's Medonte, re di Epiro.

Classical music

  • Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 0
  • Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – Journal d'orgue 1–9
  • Niel Gow – A Collection of Strathspey Reels, etc.
  • Joseph Haydn
    • 6 Divertimentos, Hob.IV:6–11
    • Keyboard Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI:40 (no. 54)
    • Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, Hob.XVI:41 (no. 55)
    • Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI:42 (no. 56)
    • 24 Lieder, Hob.XXVIa:13–24 (second book)
  • Michael Haydn – Symphony in B-flat major; Symphony in C major
  • Sabine Hitzelberger – Für fülende Seelen am Klavier
  • Edward Jones – Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including "Deck the Halls"
  • Leopold Kozeluch – Keyboard Concerto in F major, P.IV:1
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Piano Concerto No. 14
    • Piano Concerto No. 15
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Six quartets, Op. 1
  • Joseph Reicha – Cello Concerto in D major
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti – Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor

Opera

  • Pasquale Anfossi – Issipile, May 8, King's Theatre, London.[1]
  • Luigi Cherubini – L'Idalide
  • Domenico Cimarosa
    • L'apparenza inganna
    • Artaserse
    • I due supposti conti
    • I matrimoni impensati
    • L'Olimpiade, July 10, Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.[1]
    • La vanità delusa
  • André Grétry
    • L'épreuve villageoise
    • Richard Coeur de Lion
  • Joseph Haydn – Armida
  • Thomas Linley – The Spanish Rivals
  • Antonio Salieri
    • Les Danaïdes
    • Il ricco d'un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
  • Andrea Luchesi – Ademira
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Il Re Teodoro
  • Niccolò Piccinni – Diane et Endymion
  • Antonio Sacchini – Dardanus

Births

  • January 1 – William Beale, composer and organist (died 1854)
  • January 27 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (died 1851)
  • January 29 – Ferdinand Ries, composer
  • February 3 – John Fane, composer and diplomat
  • February 27 – Job Plimpton, composer (died 1864)
  • March 25 – François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher (died 1871)
  • April 8 – Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (died 1849)
  • June 14 – Francesco Morlacchi, opera composer (died 1841)
  • July 27 – George Onslow, composer (died 1853)
  • August 5 – Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor (died 1859)
  • August 23
    • Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano (died 1853)
    • Henriette Löfman, composer (died 1836)
  • October 15 – Thomas Hastings, composer (died 1872)
  • October 16 – Karl Keller, composer and flautist (died 1855)
  • November 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
  • date unknown – Samuel Simms, organist and composer (died 1868)
  • November 28 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)

Deaths

  • March 4 – Ann Cargill, opera singer (born 1760) (drowned)
  • July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (born 1710)[2]
  • August – Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
  • August 6 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (born 1726)
  • August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (born 1706)
  • September – John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
  • September 5 – Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
  • September 12 – Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (born 1750)
  • October 5 (or 1785) – Antonín Kammel, violinist and composer (born 1730)
  • November 6 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (born 1762)
  • date unknown
    • John Pixell, poet and composer (born 1725)
    • Yekaterina Sinyavina, pianist and composer (date of birth unknown)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 MusicAndHistory:1764 Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today Accessed 21 April 2013
  2. ↑ "Wilhelm Friedemann Bach | German composer | Britannica". www.britannica.com. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
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