1791 in music

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

[edit] Events

[edit] Classical music

• Franz Anton Hoffmeister - String Quartet in F
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
• Franz Xaver Süssmayr - Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn

[edit] Opera

• Marcello Bernardini - L'amore per incanto
• Luigi Cherubini - Lodoïska
• Étienne Méhul - Alonzo et Cora
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) first performed in Vienna (libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La clemenza di Tito first performed in Prague (Estates Theatre) (libretto by Metastasio)
• William Shield - The Woodman

[edit] Births

• January 28 - Ferdinand Hérold
• February 20 - Carl Czerny, composer
• May 11 - Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer
• May 29 - Pietro Romani
• July 26 - Francisco José Debali, composer
• September 5 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
• October 31 - Ferdinand Huber

[edit] Deaths

• March 9 - Nicolas Prosper Levasseur, operatic bass
• December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• date unknown - Francesca Lebrun, singer and composer