1786 in music

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See also: 1785 in music, other events of 1786, 1787 in music, list of years in music.

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

[edit] Events

• In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
• In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument
• America's oldest singing society was founded on November 7 as the Stoughton Musical Society.

[edit] Classical music

• Der Apotheker und der Doktor, singspiel by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
• Mozart's piano concertos nos. 23 and 24, Prague Symphony
• Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 82 ("Bear")

[edit] Opera

• Gioacchino Albertini - Virginia
• Bonifazio Asioli - Le nozze in villa
• Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky - Le Faucon
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Der Schauspieldirektor
  • Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (first performed in Vienna, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte).
• Antonio Salieri
  • Les Horaces
  • Prima la musica e poi le parole
• Giuseppe Sarti - Armida e Rinaldo

[edit] Published popular music

• First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection

[edit] Births

• January 3 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
• April 18 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
• July 25 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
• September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau
• November 7 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer
• November 10 - Carl Eberwein, composer
• November 18 (or December 18) - Carl Maria von Weber
• November 18 - Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
• December 20 - Pietro Raimondi, composer

[edit] Deaths

• January 14 - Michael Arne
• February 20 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
• March 7 -Frantisek Benda, composer
• May 19 - John Stanley
• July 22 - Vaclav Kalous, composer
• July 29 - Franz Asplmayr, composer
• August 7 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer
• August 17 - King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer
• September - Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, musical instrument maker
• October 6 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer
• October 19 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer
• date unknown - Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer
• date unknown - Jan Tomáš Kuzník, composer and music teacher