- 1781 in music
Events
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moves toVienna to pursue his career, but is passed over in favour ofAntonio Salieri as music teacher of Princess of Württemberg.
*Christian Gottlob Neefe takes on the youngLudwig van Beethoven as a pupil.
*Étienne Méhul makes his first, unsuccessful attempts at orchestral composition.Classical music
* Oboe quartet by Mozart
*"Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major" byGiovanni Paisiello
*"Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major" bySamuel Wesley Opera
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Samuel Arnold - "Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern"
*Antonio Calegari - "Deucalione e Pirra"
*Elizabeth Craven et al - "The Silver Tankard"
*Nicolas Dalayrac - "Le Chevalier à la mode"
*Marc-Antoine Désaugiers - "Les Deux sylphes"
*Joseph Haydn - "La fedeltà premiata "
*Mozart - "Idomeneo "
*Niccolò Piccinni - "Iphigenie en Tauride"
*Antonio Salieri - "Der Rauchfangkehrer"
*Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - "Montesuma"Births
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January 22 -François-Antoine Habeneck , composer
*March 11 -Anthony Philip Heinrich
*March 18 -Gustave Vogt , composer
*April 22 -Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber , composer
*May 24 -Louis-François Dauprat , composer and horn-player
*June 10 -Giovanni Battista Polledro , composer
*July 27 -Mauro Giuliani
*September 5 -Anton Diabelli
*November 3 -Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank , composer
*November 18 -Felice Blangini , composer
*December 1 -Charles Philippe Lafont , composer
*"unknown date" -Vincent Novello Deaths
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January 22 -Johann Siebenkas , composer
*February 4 -Josef Mysliveček , composer (b. 1737)
*May 22 -Garret Wesley Mornington , composer
*July 11 -Adolph Carl Kunzen , composer
*July 30 -Augustin Ullinger , composer
*October 9 -Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie , musician and composer (b. 1732)
*October 27 -Herman-François Delange
*October -Anton Zimmermann , composer
*November 4 -Faustina Bordoni , operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1697)
*"date unknown" - William Paxton, cellist (b. 1737)
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