1783 in music
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Events
- August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
- September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello’s opera Il mondo della luna.[1]
- John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Sonatas ('Kurfuerstensonaten') in E-flat, F, and D
- Joseph Haydn – Cello Concerto in D
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in E flat major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Great Mass in C minor
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
- Samuel Wesley – Magnificat
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata
- Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali
- André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire
- William Shield – The Poor Soldier
Published popular music
- "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns
Births
- January 12 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847)
- January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
- January 26 – Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856)
- February 15 – Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
- March 8 – Gottfied Wilhelm Fink
- March 26 – Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
- May 10 – Niccola Benvenuti, composer
- May 22 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
- June 29 – August Alexander Klengel, composer
- October 13 – Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
- December 14 – Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
- December 28 – Robert Gallenberg, composer
Deaths
- January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
- January 14 – Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (b. 1682)
- January 31 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (b. 1710)
- February 10 – James Nares, composer (b. 1715)
- March 23 – Gaspard Fritz, composer
- April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (b. 1711)
- July 27 – Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (b. 1721)
- November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter (b. 1709)
- December 20 – Antonio Soler, composer (b. 1729)
- December 23 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (b. 1699)
- date unknown – Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (b. 1741)
References
- ↑ "Mariinsky Theatre". Mariinsky Theatre. Retrieved 2011-12-04.