1780 in music

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

[edit] Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.
• The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.

[edit] Published popular music

• Barbara Allen (song) (first printed version)

[edit] Classical music

• Job (oratorio) by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf

[edit] Opera

• Giovanni Paisiello - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
• Bernardo Porta - La Principessa d'Amalfi

[edit] Births

• Peter Lichtenthal
• George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, violinist
• January 14 - François-Joseph Dizi
• February 9 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
• March 10 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
• May 22 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
• May 28 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
• June 18 - Michael Henkel, composer
• July 25 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
• November 3 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
• November 16 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer
• November 22 - Conradin Kreutzer

[edit] Deaths

• January 10 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti
• February 1 - Johann Ludwig Krebs
• April 21 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
• August 19 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
• September 6 - George Alexander Stevens, songwriter
• December 14 - Ignatius Sancho, composer and actor