1784 in music

1784 in music

Events

*April 29 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's "Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard" (K.454) for the first time, in the presence of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
*June 13 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Piano Concerto No. 17" is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.

Classical music

*Joseph Haydn - "Symphony no. 76"
*Michael Haydn - "Symphony in B flat major"; "Symphony in C major"
*Giovanni Battista Viotti - "Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major"; "Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor"

Opera

*André Grétry - "Richard Coeur de Lion"
*Thomas Linley - "The Spanish Rivals"
*Antonio Salieri - "Les Danaides"; "Il Ricco d´un giorno" (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
*Andrea Luchesi - "Ademira"
*Giovanni Paisiello - "Il Re Teodoro"

Births

*January 1 - William Beale, composer and organist
*January 27 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
*January 29 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
*January 31 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
*February 3 - John Fane, composer and diplomat
*February 27 - Job Plimpton, composer
*April 8 - Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer
*July 27 - George Onslow, composer
*August 5 - Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor
*August 23 - Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano
*September 7 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
*October 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer
*November 7 - Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
*December 1 -Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer

Deaths

*January 11 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
*February 24 - Anton Laube, composer
*March 4 - Ann Cargill, opera singer (b. 1760) (drowned)
*July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (b. 1710)
*August - Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
*August 6 - Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (b. 1726)
*August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (b. 1706)
*September 12 - Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (b. 1750)
*September 27 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
*"date unknown"
**John Bennett, organist and composer (b. c. 1735)
**Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (b. 1762)
**Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi, luthier (b. c. 1710)
**Maria Linley singer (b. 1763)


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