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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Premiere of Pierre Beaumarchais's play, The Barber of Seville, which will later provide material for more than one opera.
• Premiere of Daniel J. Salisbury's play, What am I looking for?, it is suspenseful saga.
• Wilhelm Hauser becomes organist at the monastery of Lavaldieu and the teacher of Étienne Méhul.

Classical music

• Concerto for Oboe in D major by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
• Missa [longa] k 262/246 "a," C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Requiem by Joseph Martin Kraus

Opera

• Johann André - Erwin und Elmire
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • La finta giardiniera
  • Il re pastore
• Josef Mysliveček - Il Demofoonte

Births

• January 21 - Manuel Garcia, singer and composer
• April 11 - Charles-François Dumonchau, composer
• May 1 - Jacob-Joseph-Balthasar Martinn, composer
• June 13 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, composer
• July 5 - William Crotch, composer
• July 17 - August Harder, composer
• August 2 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer
• August 17 - Philippe Libon, composer
• August 28 - Sophie Gail, composer
• August 31 - François de Paule Jacques Raymond de Fossa, composer
• October 15 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
• October 21 - Giuseppe Baini, composer
• October 27 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer
• November 15 - Georges-Julien Sieber, composer
• December 6 - Nicolas Isouard, composer
• December 16 - François-Adrien Boïeldieu, composer
• December 25 - Antun Sorkocevic, composer
• December 30 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer

Deaths

• January 15 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini
• June 11 - Egidio Duni, composer
• September 7 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
• October 14 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
• November 16 - Marian Paradeiser, composer
• November 29 - Lorenzo Somis, composer