1782 in music

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

[edit] Events

• August 4 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber.
• William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.

[edit] Published popular music

• Robert Burns - John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)

[edit] Classical music

• Mozart's Symphony no.35, "Haffner"
• 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; etc.
• Giovanni Battista Viotti - Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, G 44

[edit] Opera

• Giuseppe Maria Cambini - Alcide
• François-Joseph Gossec - Thésée
• Joseph Haydn - Orlando paladino
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("Il Seraglio")

[edit] Births

• January 29 - Daniel Auber and Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski, composers
• April 14 - Carlo Coccia, composer
• May 26 - Joseph Drechsler, composer
• July 19 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer
• July 26 - John Field, pianist and composer
• September 26 - Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
• October 27 - Niccolò Paganini, violinist

[edit] Deaths

• January 1 - Johann Christian Bach
• March 19 - Adrien Trudo Sale and Louis-Henry Paisible, composers
• April 6 - Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
• April 12 - Metastasio, poet and lyricist
• April 22 - Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer
• May 20 - Carlo Giovanni Testori and Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composers
• July 15 - Farinelli, castrato singer
• July 15 - Robert Wainwright, composer
• July 21 - Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer
• date unknown - Nicolas Chédeville, composer