1780 in music

1780 in music

Events

*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera "Idomeneo" at Munich.
*The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
*Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen" goes into its third edition.

Published popular music

*Barbara Allen (song) (first printed version)

Classical music

*Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - "Job" (oratorio)

Opera

*Franz Danzi - "Cleopatra"
*Giovanni Paisiello - "Il Barbiere di Siviglia"
*Bernardo Porta - "La Principessa d'Amalfi"

Births

*January 14 - François-Joseph Dizi
*February 9 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
*March 10 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
*May 22 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
*May 28 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
*June 18 - Michael Henkel, composer
*July 25 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
*November 3 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
*November 16 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer
*November 22 - Conradin Kreutzer

Deaths

*January 10 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1697)
*February 1 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (b. 1713)
*April 21 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
*August 19 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
*September 6 - George Alexander Stevens, songwriter (b. 1710)
*December 14 - Ignatius Sancho, composer and actor (b. c. 1729)


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