1799 in music
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Events
- Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|Pathetique); Piano Sonata 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2)
- Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody[1]
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
- Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funebre
Opera
- Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
- Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
- Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle
Births
- May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879)
- June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839)
- September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869)
- October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868)
- December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)
Deaths
- April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
- May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
- May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
- June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
- August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
- September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
- October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
- October 24 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
- date unknown
- Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747)
- Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)