1785 in music
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See also: 1784 in music, other events of 1785, 1786 in music, list of years in music.
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[edit] Events
- Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.
[edit] Classical Music
- William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
- Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D minor
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Concerto no 20 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra
- Davidde penitente (oratorio)
- String quartet, "Dissonantenkwartet"
- Ignace Pleyel, String Quartet
[edit] Opera
- Gaetano Andreozzi - Giasone e Medea
- Prosper-Didier Deshayes - Le Faux serment
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Artemisia
- Antonio Salieri - La Grotta di Trofonio
[edit] Births
- March 6 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
- March 19 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
- April 4 - Bettina Brentano, composer
- April 19 - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer
- September 25 - George Frederic Pinto, composer
- November 2 - Frederic Kalkbrenner and Johann Leopold Fuchs, composers
- unknown date - Johann Christoph, operatic tenor
[edit] Deaths
- January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi
- February 19 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
- May 9 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
- May 10 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
- May 15 - Karel Blazej Kopriva, composer
- June 5 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer
- June 6 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer
- June 25 - Pierre Talon, composer
- October 24 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
- November 19 - Bernard de Bury, composer
- December 8 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
- December 29 - Johann Heinrich Rolle
