1791 in music
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The year 1791 in music involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Joseph Haydn is brought to London by Johann Peter Salomon.
[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
The following operas were composed:
- 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
- March 9 - Nicolas Levasseur, operatic bass
- 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
- February 2 - Frantisek Kotzwara, double bassist and composer (b. 1730) (erotic asphyxiation)
- February 5 - John Beard, operatic tenor (b. c. 1717)
- March 22 - Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (b. 1738)
- May 14 - Francesca Lebrun, singer and composer (b. 1756)
- August 25 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1707)
- December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (b. 1756)
- date unknown - Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)
