1778 in music
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Events
- January 1 - Première of William Boyce's "When rival nations great in arms"[1]
- January 14 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while visiting Mannheim, meets local composer Georg Joseph Vogler.[1]
- January 27 - Niccolò Piccinni's first French opera, Roland, is premièred at the Paris Opera.[1]
- February 14 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writes to his father, Leopold Mozart, telling him how much he hates composing for the flute.[1]
- February 17 - Ignaz Umlauf’s Die Bergknappen becomes the first singspiel by a local composer to be performed in Vienna.[1]
- March 1 - Christoph Willibald Gluck returns to Vienna after a residence of ten years in Paris.[1]
- March 2 - The Nationaltheater of Vienna's opera buffa company gives its final performance.[1]
- March 15 - Thomas Arne is buried at St Paul's, Covent Garden.[1]
- March 20 - Jiří Antonín Benda leaves his post as Kapellmeister at the court of Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.[1]
- March 26 - Seven-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven gives his first concert performance, at Cologne.[1]
- April 8 - Antonio Salieri leaves Vienna after a twelve-year absence from his native Italy.[1]
- May 1 - Anna Maria Mozart complains of various ailments in a letter from Paris. She dies there two months later.[1]
- June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom celebrates his 40th birthday; "Arm’d with her native force", an ode composed by William Boyce for the occasion, is performed for the first time.[1]
- July 9 - Mozart writes to his father complaining about the French language and the poor standard of singing.[1]
- July 13 - Leopold Mozart learns of his wife's death from a family friend, Abbé Joseph Bullinger.[1]
- July 24 - The première of Giovanni Paisiello’s Lo sposo burlato takes place at the Russian court.[1]
- August 3 - Teatro alla Scala, Milan, opens with a performance of Antonio Salieri's latest opera, Europa riconosciuta.[1]
- August 27 - Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach in Paris.[1]
- October 14 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Strasbourg, where he will give three concerts.[1]
Classical music
- Carl Philip Emanuel Bach - Sechs Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber
- Jean-Frédéric Edelmann - 3 Sonates, op. 6, pour clavecin
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments
- Joseph Haydn – Little Organ Mass
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Duet Sonata for violin and piano K.296
- Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"
Opera
- Carl Christian Agthe – Martin Velten
- Johann Christian Bach – La Clemenza di Scipione
- Anton Bachschmidt – Antigono
- Pierre Joseph Candeille – Les Deux comtesses
- Christian Cannabich – Azakia
- Charles Dibdin – The Shepherdess of the Alps
- André Grétry - Le jugement de Midas
- Niccola Piccinni – Roland
- Antonio Sacchini - Erifile
- Antonio Salieri – La scuola de´ gelosi; L´Europa riconosciuta (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)
Published popular music
- The Singing Master's Assistant – William Billings, including "Africa"
Births
- January 5 – Fortunato Santini, composer
- January 13 – Anton Fischer, composer
- February 12 – Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
- February 14 – Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer
- February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, composer
- March 8 – Friedrich August Kanne, composer
- April 6 – Joseph Funk, composer
- May 8 – Johann Gansbacher, composer
- May 28 – Friedrich Westenholz, composer
- July 10 – Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
- July 29 – Carl Borromaus Neuner
- September 3 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
- November 14 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
Deaths
- February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (b. 1697)
- March 5 – Thomas Arne, composer, best known for "Rule Britannia" (b. 1710)
- July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer (b. 1712)
- May 8 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, physician and music writer (b. 1711)
- July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720; typhoid)[1]
- August 5 – Thomas Linley the younger, composer, aged 22
- August 14 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (b. 1740)
- August 24 – Johannes Ringk, organist, composer and copyist of Bach (b. 1717)
- September 20 – Quirino Gasparini, composer (b. 1721)
- October 30 – Davide Perez, opera composer (b. 1711)
- November 11 – Anne Steele, hymn-writer (b. 1717)
- December – Samuel Linley, oboist and singer (b. 1760)
- December 12 – Hermann Raupach, composer (b. 1728)
- date unknown
- Americus Backers, piano maker
- Célestin Harst, organist and harpsichordist (b. 1698)