- 1796 in music
Events
*The father of
Gioacchino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.Popular Music
Classical Music
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Muzio Clementi - "Concerto for piano in C major"
*Joseph Haydn - "Mass No.8 in Bb" ("Heiligmesse")Opera
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Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac - "Marianne"
*Johann Simon Mayr - "La Lodoiska"
*Gaspare Spontini - "Li puntigli delle donne"
*Peter Winter - "Das unterbrochene Opferfest"Births
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February 17 -Giovanni Pacini , composer
*July 23 -Franz Berwald , composer
*July 28 -Ignaz Bösendorfer , piano manufacturer
*August 25 -James Lick , piano builder
*November 30 -Carl Loewe , German composerDeaths
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January 1 -Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde , chemist and musician (b. 1735)
*March 19 -Stephen Storace , composer (b. 1762)
*June 8 -Felice Giardini , violinist and composer (b. 1716)
*September 22 -George Wilhelm Gruber , composer
*December 30 -Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne , composer
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