1779 in music

Events

*April - The "London Magazine" reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.
*Opera house at Eszterháza burns down

Opera

*Johann Christian Bach - "Amadis de Gaule"
*Domenico Cimarosa - "L'infedeltà fedele"
*Christoph Willibald Gluck - "Iphigénie en Tauride"
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "Zaide"

Classical music

*"Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

*January 8 - John White, composer
*January 15 - Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
*January 22 - Stefano Pavesi, composer
*February 5 - Frans van Campenhout, singer and composer
*February 22 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
*March 1 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
*March 6 - Philippe Roth, composer
*March 13 - Oliver Shaw, composer
*March 21 - Alexis Garaude, composer
*March 28 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer
*April 11 - Louise Reichardt
*April 21 - William Knyvett, composer
*May 28 - Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
*July 10 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
*July 20 - Ignaz Schuster, composer
*July 21 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
*August 1 - Francis Scott Key, songwriter
*August 17 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer
*September 8 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer
*September 10 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni
*October 15 - Johan O. Wallin, songwriting bishop
*November 6 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
*December 1 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer
*December 14 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer
*December 15 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer

Deaths

*February 2 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
*February 7 - William Boyce, composer
*April 6 - Tommaso Traetta, composer
*December 5 - Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist (born 1709)
*December 28 - Gennaro Manna, composer
*"date unknown"
**Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist (born 1697)
**Martha Ray, singer