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Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
• Bolshoi Theatre hosts its first annual opera season
• Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
• Giovanni Paisiello is invited to the court of Catherine the Great

Popular music

• Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Toplady

Opera

• Gaetano Marinelli - Il Barone di Sardafritta
• Ignaz Pleyel - Die Fee Urgele
• Antonio Tozzi - Le Due Gemelli
• Tommaso Traetta - Germondo

Classical music

• François Joseph Gossec - Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
• James Hook - The Ascension (oratorio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Haffner Serenade, K.250

Births

• January 24 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
• February 18 - John Parry, composer
• February 21 - Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
• April 8 - Thaddaus Weigl, composer
• May 10 - George Thomas Smart, composer
• May 12 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
• May 13 - Charles Ots and Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composers
• June 1 - John George Schetky, composer
• August 4 - Wenzel Sedlak, composer
• August 15 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
• August 16 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
• December 6 - Paul Friedrich Struck, composer

Deaths

• April 22 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist
• April 24 - Giuseppe Paolucci
• May 6 - James Kent, composer
• November 22 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer
• unknown date - Mattia Vento