1789 in music

"See also:" 1788 in music, other events of 1789, 1790 in music, list of years in music.

Events

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
*Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
*Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
*Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
*Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
*Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia".
*Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
*Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.

Classical Music

*Ludwig van Beethoven - "Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano", opus 39
*Joseph Haydn - "Symphony no 92 in G Major, "Oxford"
*William Crotch - "The Captivity of Judah" (oratorio)
*Leopold Anton Kozeluch - "Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major"

Opera

*Domenico Cimarosa - "I Due Baroni"
*André Grétry - "Raoul Barbe-Bleue"
*Johann Friedrich Reichardt - "Brenno"; "Claudine von Villa Bella"
*Antonio Salieri - "Il Pastor fido"; "La Cifra"; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
*Stephen Storace - "The Haunted Tower"

Births

*January 30 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
*February 1 - Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer (d. 1861)
*February 8 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer (d. 1878)
*February 15 - Friedrich Fesca, composer (d. 1826)
*June 27 - Friedrich Silcher, composer (d. 1860)
*September 1 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
*October 18 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
*October 24 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer (d. 1855)
*October 26 - Joseph Mayseder
*October 28 - Johann Schneider, composer
*November 13 - Martin de Ron, composer
*December 8 - John Fawcett, composer (d. 1867)
*December 14 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (d. 1831)

Deaths

*January 1 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
*January 2 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
*January 20 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
*February 2 - Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
*May 10 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
*June 7 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva
*June 14 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
*July 4 - Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poer and conductor (b. 1729)
*July 15 - Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
*September 11 - Luka Sorkočević, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
*September 12 - Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 17009)
*October 24 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
*"date unknown" - Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)