1791 in music

1791 in music

The year 1791 in music involved some significant events.

Events

*Joseph Haydn is brought to London by Johann Peter Salomon.

Classical music

*Franz Anton Hoffmeister - "String Quartet in F"
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Requiem"
*Franz Xaver Süssmayr - "Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn"

Opera

The following operas were composed:
*Marcello Bernardini - "L'amore per incanto"
*Luigi Cherubini - "Lodoïska"
*Étienne Méhul - "Alonzo et Cora"
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Die Zauberflöte" ("The Magic Flute") first performed in Vienna (libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder)
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "La clemenza di Tito" first performed in Prague (Estates Theatre) (libretto by Metastasio)
*William Shield - "The Woodman"

Births

*January 28 - Ferdinand Hérold
*February 20 - Carl Czerny, composer
*March 9 - Nicolas Levasseur, operatic bass
*May 11 - Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer
*May 29 - Pietro Romani
*July 26 - Francisco José Debali, composer
*September 5 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
*October 31 - Ferdinand Huber

Deaths

*February 2 - Frantisek Kotzwara, double bassist and composer (b. 1730) (erotic asphyxiation)
*February 5 - John Beard, operatic tenor (b. c. 1717)
*March 22 - Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (b. 1738)
*May 14 - Francesca Lebrun, singer and composer (b. 1756)
*August 25 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1707)
*December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (b. 1756)
*"date unknown" - Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)


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