1786 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • January 21 – Luigi Boccherini becomes an official composer to Prince Frederick William of Prussia.[1]
  • February 7 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, presents a festival at Schönbrunn Palace, at which new compositions by both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri are performed.[1]
  • April 28 – Leopold Mozart writes to his daughter, Maria Anna Mozart, predicting failure for his son's latest opera, The Marriage of Figaro.[1] In fact its premiere on May 1 under the composer's baton at the Burgtheater in Vienna is a success with encores demanded.[2] The libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte.
  • October 18 – Leopold Mozart is given a blood test on the same day that his daughter-in-law Constanze Mozart gives birth to her third child, Johann Thomas Leopold; the baby dies a month later, Leopold the following year.[1]
  • November 7 – America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
  • November 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf unsuccessfully seeks employment with the newly enthroned King Frederick William II of Prussia.[1]
  • In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
  • In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
  • Georg Joseph Vogler is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of Sweden.

Publications

  • Johann Wilhelm Hässler – 6 Leichte Sonaten, Theil 1
  • Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 20
  • Maria Theresia von Paradis – Zwölf Lieder auf ihrer Reise in Musik gesetzt, composed on tour over the previous two years
  • Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart – Musicalische Rhapsodien

Classical music

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Funeral music for A. Schulte[1]
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Ino, BR G 48
  • Cecilia Maria Barthélemon
    • Op. 1: Three Sonatas for the Piano-Forte, or Harpsichord, the Second with an Accompaniment for the Violin
    • 6 English and Italian Songs, Op.2
  • Luigi Boccherini – Symphony in C major, G.515
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
    • Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
    • Giobbe (oratorio)
  • Xaver Hammer – Gamba Sonata No.1 in D major
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")
    • Symphony No. 84 in Eb
    • Symphony No. 86 in D
    • Concerto for 2 "Lyra organizzata" Hob.VIIh:3
    • Cavatina: "Sono Alcina e sono ancora" Hob.XXIVb:9
    • Recit: "Ah, tu non senti, amico" and Aria: "Qual destra omicida" Hob.XXIVb:10
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Rondo in D for Keyboard, K. 485
    • Piano Concerto No. 23 in A, K. 488
    • Duet for Soprano and Tenor, “Spiegarti no poss'io”, K. 489
    • Scena and Rondo for Soprano, “Non più, tutti ascoltai”, K. 490
    • Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
    • Quartet in E♭ for Piano and Strings, K. 493
    • Concerto No. 4 in E♭ for Horn and Orchestra, K. 495
    • Trio No. 2 in G for Piano, Violin and Violoncello, K. 496
    • Concerto No. 25 in C for Piano and Orchestra, K. 503
    • Symphony No. 38 in D "Prague", K. 504
    • Canon for 3 Voices in F major, K.507
  • Giovanni Paisiello – Amor vendicato, R.2.7
  • Ignaz Pleyel – Symphony in C major, B.128
  • Corona Schröter – 25 Lieder
  • Michel Yost – Clarinet Concerto No.14

Opera

  • Gioacchino Albertini – Virginia
  • Bonifazio Asioli – Le nozze in villa
  • Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky – Le Faucon
  • Nicolas Dalayrac – Nina, premiered May 15 in Paris
  • François-Joseph Gossec – Rosine, ou L’épouse abandonnée
  • André Grétry – Amphitryon
  • Lucille Grétry – Le mariage d’Antonio
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
    • Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
  • Antonio Salieri
    • Les Horaces
    • Prima la musica e poi le parole
  • Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo
  • Johann Christoph Vogel – La Toison d'or, premiered Sept. 5 in Paris
  • First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection

Methods and theory writings

  • Francesco Azopardi – Il musico prattico
  • Henry Beck – Flute Book
  • Antonio D. R. Borghese – L’art musical ramené à ses vrais principes
  • João Ribeiro de Almeida Campos – Elementos de Musica
  • Johann Adam Hiller – Nachricht von der Aufführung des Händelschen Messias
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Legende einiger Musikheiligen
  • James Nares – A Concise and Easy Treatise on Singing, with a Set of English Duets for Beginners
  • Joseph Riepel – Baßschlüssel
  • Ignaz Schweigl – Grundlehre der Violin

Births

  • January 3 – Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
  • February 16 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, amateur composer and patron (died 1859)
  • April 11 – Johann Friedrich Kelz, composer (died 1862)
  • April 18 – Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer (died 1868)
  • June 20 – Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, lyricist (died 1859)
  • June 21 – Charles Edward Horn, singer and composer (died 1849)
  • July 25 – Giacomo Cordella, composer (died 1847)
  • September 11 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer (died 1832)
  • September 12 – Jean-Louis Tulou, composer (died 1865)
  • September 26 – August Mühling, German composer (died 1847)
  • September 27 – José Mariano Elízaga, composer (died 1842)
  • October 3 – Carl Almenräder, bassoonist (died 1846)
  • October 21 – Henry Lemoine, composer (died 1854)
  • November 10 – Carl Eberwein, violinist and composer (died 1868)
  • November 18
    • Carl Maria von Weber, composer (or December 18)
    • Sir Henry Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
  • December 20 – Pietro Raimondi, composer
  • date unknown
    • Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, composer (died 1841)
    • Elena Pucić-Sorkočević, composer (died 1865)

Deaths

  • January 4 – Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher and grandfather of composers Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn (born 1729)
  • January 14 – Michael Arne, composer (born c.1740)
  • February 16 – Johann Georg Schürer, composer (born 1720)
  • March 7 – Frantisek Benda, composer (born 1709)
  • March 21 – Johann Gottlieb Preller, cantor and composer (born 1727)
  • April 13 – Jan Tomáš Kuzník, composer and music teacher (born 1716)
  • May 19 – John Stanley, composer (born 1712)
  • June 2 – Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, composer (born 1706)
  • July – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (born 1745)
  • July 5 – Michel Yost, composer (born 1754)
  • July 29 – Franz Asplmayr, composer (born 1728)
  • August 2 – François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet, librettist (born 1716)
  • August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer (born 1712)
  • August 26 – Christoph Christian Sturm, lyricist (born 1786)
  • September 6 – Karl von Ordóñez, composer (born 1734)
  • September 18 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, musical instrument maker (born 1711)
  • September 29 – Dietrich Ewald von Grotthuss pianist and composer (born 1751)
  • October 6 – Antonio Sacchini, composer (born 1730)
  • December 25 – Christoph Sonnleithner, composer (born 1734)

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 MusicAndHistory:1786 Archived 2013-06-25 at archive.today Accessed 21 April 2013
  2. ↑ Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0.
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