1793 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • September 25 – The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.
  • Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa.
  • Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, by Prof. Joseph Jowett, probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch.
  • Nehemiah Shumway – The American Harmony, including "Schenectady"
  • George Thomson – A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice

Classical music

  • Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – Variations on La Marseillaise
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Ein Selbstgespräch, WoO 114
  • Domenico Cimarosa – Concerto for 2 Flutes in G major, G.1077
  • Muzio Clementi
    • 3 Piano Trios, Op. 29
    • 3 Piano Trios, Op. 32
  • Jan Ladislav Dussek
    • 6 Piano Sonatinas, Op. 19
    • Piano Concerto No.5, Op. 22
    • The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Op. 23
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No. 99
    • String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
    • Variations in F minor
    • 12 German Dances, Hob.IX:10
    • Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:32
  • Michael Haydn – Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae
  • Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 38
  • Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.26 in B-flat major
  • Paul Wranitzky
    • Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24
    • Six String Quartets, Op. 23

Opera

  • Felice Alessandri – Virginia
  • Samuel Arnold – The Mountaineers
  • Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa
  • François-Adrien Boïeldieu – La fille coupable
  • Domenico Cimarosa – I traci amanti
  • Francesco Gardi – Pirro
  • Johann Baptist Henneberg – Die Waldmänner
  • Étienne Méhul – Le jeune sage et le vieux fou
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Erwin und Elmire
  • Josef Seger – 8 Toccatas and Fugues
  • Daniel Steibelt – Roméo et Juliette

Methods and theory writings

  • Pierre Baillot – Méthode de Violon
  • Joseph Frike – A Guide in Harmony
  • Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek – Traité général de tous les instruments à vent
  • Georg Joseph Vogler – Verbesserung der Forkel’schen Veränderungen über 'God save the King'

Births

  • January 18 – William Henry Havergal, hymn-writer and composer (d. 1870)[1]
  • February 14 – William Crathern, composer of sacred music (d. c.1851)
  • February 27 – Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (d. 1861)
  • July 22 – Eugène Walckiers, composer (died 1866)
  • August 21 – Peter Casper Krossing, composer (d. 1838)
  • September 2 – Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (d. 1878)
  • December 26 – François Hünten, composer (died 1878)
  • date unknown – William Bartholomew, arranger and composer (died 1867)

Deaths

  • January 24 (bur.) – Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (b. 1696)
  • March 17 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (b. 1738)
  • May 3 – Martin Gerbert, music writer (b. 1720)
  • May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer (b. 1722)[2]
  • July 26 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer (born 1702)[3]
  • September 10 – Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, opera composer (b. 1742)
  • September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer (b. 1734)
  • October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer (b. 1726)
  • October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (b. 1710)
  • date unknown
    • Philip Phile, violinist and composer (b. c.1734)
    • Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)

References

  1. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 152. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
  2. The New Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2003. p. 515. ISBN 978-0-85229-961-6.
  3. Bertil van Boer (5 April 2012). Historical Dictionary of Music of the Classical Period. Scarecrow Press. p. 78. ISBN 978-0-8108-7386-5.
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