1785 in music

1785 in music

"See also:" 1784 in music, other events of 1785, 1786 in music, list of years in music.

Events

*Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.
*Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.

Classical Music

*William Boyce, "Ten Voluntaries"
*Joseph Haydn, "String Quartet in D minor"
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
**"Concerto no 20 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra"
**"Davidde penitente" (oratorio)
**String quartet, "Dissonantenkwartet"
*Ignace Pleyel, "String Quartet"

Opera

*Gaetano Andreozzi - "Giasone e Medea"
*Prosper-Didier Deshayes - "Le Faux serment"
*Johann Friedrich Reichardt - "Artemisia"
*Antonio Salieri - "La Grotta di Trofonio"

Births

*February 2 - Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano (d. 1845)
*March 6 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer (d. 1857)
*March 19 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (d. 1853)
*April 4 - Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (d. 1859)
*April 19 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (d. 1858)
*August 18 - Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (d. 1873)
*September 5 - Thomas Adams, organist and composer (d. 1858)
*September 25 - George Frederic Pinto, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1805)
*November 2
** Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (d. 1849)
** Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer

Deaths

*January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (b. 1706)
*February 19 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
*May 9 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
*May 10 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
*May 15 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, organist and composer (b. 1756)
*June 5 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer (b. 1714)
*August 31 - Pietro Chiari, librettist (b. 1712)
*October 24 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
*November 19 - Bernard de Bury, composer (b. 1720)
*December 8 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
*"date unknown" - Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist and composer (b. 1735)


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