1784 In Music

Events

*January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled ''Les Danaïdes''.MusicAndHistory:1764
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*January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.
*February 9 – The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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

*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.
*Luigi Cherubini – ''L'Idalide''
*Domenico Cimarosa
**''L'apparenza inganna''
**''Artaserse''
**''I due supposti conti''
**''I matrimoni impensati''
**''L'Olimpiade'', July 10, Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.
**''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)
*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)
*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)
**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

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