- 1778 in music
Events
*Mozart's mother dies
Classical music
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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
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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 theScala at Milan)Published popular music
*"The Singing Master's Assistant" -
William Billings , including "Africa"Births
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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
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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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