1778 in music

1778 in music

Events

*Mozart's mother dies

Classical music

*François Joseph Gossec - "Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments"
*Joseph Haydn - "Little Organ Mass"
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - "12 Variations for Piano "La belle Françoise"

Opera

*Carl Christian Agthe - "Martin Velten"
*Johann Christian Bach - "La Clemenza di Scipione"
*Anton Bachschmidt - "Antigono"
*Pierre Joseph Candeille - "Les Deux comtesses"
*Christian Cannabich - "Azakia"
*Charles Dibdin - "The Shepherdess of the Alps"
*Niccola Piccinni - "Roland"
*Antonio Salieri - "La scuola de´ gelosi"; "L´Europa riconosciuta" (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)

Published popular music

*"The Singing Master's Assistant" - William Billings, including "Africa"

Births

*January 5 - Fortunato Santini, composer
*January 13 - Anton Fischer, composer
*February 12 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
*February 13 (or 14) - Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer
*February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Görner, composer
*March 8 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
*April 6 - Joseph Funk, composer
*May 8 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
*May 28 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
*July 10 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
*July 29 - Carl Borromaus Neuner
*September 3 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
*November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Deaths

*March 5 - Thomas Arne, best known for "Rule Britannia"
*April 7 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
*June 7 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
*June 26 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
*July 28 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
*August 5 - Thomas Linley the younger, composer, aged 22
*August 14 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer
*November 26 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer


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