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Contents

1 Events
2 Popular music
3 Opera
4 Classical music
5 Births
6 Deaths

Events

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family are resident in Vienna until December.
Antonio Sacchini returns to Venice to become director of the Conservatorio dell'Ospadeletto.
Giuseppe Tartini suffers a stroke.
Michael Haydn marries Maria Magdalena Lipp, a singer and the daughter of the court organist.

Popular music

"The Liberty Song", with words by John Dickinson – considered the first American patriotic song. He used the music to the traditional British song, Hearts of Oak.

Opera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Bastien und Bastienne (his first published opera)
Joseph Haydn – Lo speziale
Niccolò Jommelli – Fetonte
Giovanni Paisiello – Olimpia
Antonio Zingarelli – I quattro pazzi

Classical music

Applausus – Joseph Haydn
Symphonies no 7 and 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cello Concerto in D Major – Luigi Boccherini
Sonata for Harpsichord in G major – Muzio Clementi

Births

March 12 – Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
April 7 – Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
September 1 – Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer
September 12 – Benjamin Carr, composer
September 14 – Georg Johann Schinn, composer
September 21 – Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, composer, pianist and harpsichordist (c. 1863)
November 24 – Jean-Engelbert Pauwels, composer
December 6 – Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer
date unknown – Gaetano Crivelli, operatic tenor (d. 1836)

Deaths

January 1 – Jean-Laurent Krafft, composer
January 28 – John Wainwright, composer
March 3 – Nicola Porpora, composer
March 14 – Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
July 6 – Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
July 11 – Jose Melchior de Nebra Blascu, composer
October 28 – Michel Blavet, flautist and composer
October 31 – Francesco Maria Veracini, violinist and composer
November 1 – Pierre van Maldere, composer