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

Events

• 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.

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 76
• Michael Haydn - Symphony in B flat major; Symphony in C major
• Giovanni Battista Viotti - Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor

Opera

• André Grétry - Richard Coeur de Lion
• Thomas Linley - The Spanish Rivals
• Antonio Salieri - Les Danaides; Il Ricco d´un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
• Andrea Luchesi - Ademira
• Giovanni Paisiello - Il Re Teodoro

Births

• January 1 - William Beale, composer and organist
• January 27 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
• January 29 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
• January 31 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
• February 3 - John Fane, composer and diplomat
• February 27 - Job Plimpton, composer
• April 8 - Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer
• July 27 - George Onslow, composer
• August 5 - Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor
• September 7 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
• October 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer
• November 7 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
• December 1 -Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer

Deaths

• January 11 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
• February 24 - Anton Laube, composer
• March 4 - Ann Cargill, opera singer (b. 1760) (drowned)
• July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (b. 1710)
• August - Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
• August 6 - Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (b. 1726)
• August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (b. 1706)
• September 12 - Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (b. 1750)
• September 27 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
• date unknown
  • John Bennett, organist and composer (b. c. 1735)
  • Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (b. 1762)
  • Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (b. c. 1710)
  • Maria Linley singer (b. 1763)