1781 in music

1781 in music

Events

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moves to Vienna to pursue his career, but is passed over in favour of Antonio Salieri as music teacher of Princess of Württemberg.
*Christian Gottlob Neefe takes on the young Ludwig 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" by Giovanni Paisiello
*"Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major" by Samuel Wesley

Opera

*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

*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

*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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