1782 In Music

Events

* March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
* August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna.
* September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's ''Cora och Alonzo''.
* William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
* Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.

Published popular music

*James Aird (compiled and edited) – ''A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs'' (including "The Miners of Wicklow", possibly the first published version of " Yankee Doodle")
* Robert Burns – '' John Barleycorn'' (original version from 16th century)

Classical music

*Ludwig van Beethoven
**9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
**''Schilderung eines Mädchen'', WoO 107
* Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda – 3 Flute Concertos, Op. 4
* Luigi Boccherini
**Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
**Symphony in E-flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
**Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
**Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
**Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
*Giuseppe Maria Cambini – ''Seconde et nouvelle suite de simphonies concertantes à plusieurs instruments''
* Muzio Clementi
**3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 7
**3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 8
* François Joseph Gossec – ''Hymne à la Liberté'', RH 628
*Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
** Symphony No. 77 in B-flat major, Hob.I:77
** Symphony No.78 in C minor, Hob.I:78
**Divertimento in B-flat major, Hob.II:46 (authorship is disputed)
**Keyboard Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII:4
**Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII:11
**Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:8 "Mariazellermesse"
*Michael Haydn – Divertimento in D major, MH 319
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner", K. 385
** String Quartet in G, K. 387, No. 14
**Fantasia in D minor, K.397/385g
**Suite in C major, K.399/385i
**Violin Sonata in C major, K.403/385c
**Adagio in F major, K.410/484d
*Emanuel Johann Gottfried Pässler – ''Sechs Sonaten für das Klavier oder die Harfe''
* Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain – Violin Concerto No.3 in B-flat major
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – ''Klavierstück über eine Petrarchische Ode''
*Antonio Rosetti – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3
*Johann Abraham Peter Schulz – Lieder im Volkston
*Johannes Matthias Sperger – String Symphony in C
*Giovanni Battista Viotti
**Concerto for Violin No. 2 in E major, G 44
**Violin Concerto No.4 in D major
**Violin Concerto No.5 in C major
*Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – ''Osterkantate''

Opera

*Giuseppe Maria Cambini – ''Alcide''
* Domenico Cimarosa
**''L'amor costante''
**''La ballerina amante''
**''Circe''
**''Il convito''
**''L'eroe cinese''
* François-Joseph Gossec – ''Thésée''
*Joseph Haydn – ''Orlando paladino''
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – '' Die Entführung aus dem Serail'', 16 July, Burgtheater in Vienna.
* Giovanni Paisiello – '' Il barbiere di Siviglia''
* Giuseppe Sarti – ''Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode''

Methods and theory writings

* Anton Bemetzrieder – ''Abstract of a New Method of Teaching the Principles of Music''
* Heinrich Philipp Bossler – ''Elementarbuch der Tonkunst zum Unterricht beim Klavier''
* Michel Corrette – ''L’art de se perfectionner dans le violon''
* Johann Kirnberger – ''Gedanken über die verschiedenen Lehrarten in der Komposition''
* Louis-Toussaint Milandre – ''Méthode facile pour la viole d'amour'', Op.5
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – ''Musikalisches Kunstmagazin''

Births

*January 29 – Daniel Auber, composer (died 1871)
*April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer (died 1873)
* May 1 – Christopher Meineke, composer, organist (died 1850)
*July 19 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer and son of Jonas Blewitt (died 1853)
*July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer (died 1837)
*September 23 – Jacques Féréol Mazas, composer and musician (died 1849)
*October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, composer, violinist (died 1840)
* December 21 – Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, flautist (died 1835)

Deaths

*January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
* April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
*April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
*May – Joseph Kelway, composer and organist (born c. 1702)
* May 6 – Herman Friedrich Voltmar, Danish composer (born 1707)
*June 17 – Kane O'Hara, Irish composer (b. 1711)
* July 15 – Robert Wainwright, composer
*August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
*August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
*September 16 – Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
*October – John Parry, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
* October 23 – Joseph Riepel, German composer (born 1709)
* December 28 – Maria Carolina of Savoy, composer and princess (born 1764)
*''date unknown''
** Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer (b. 1714)
** Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)

References

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