Events
Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II. Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season. Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School. Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments. Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.
Opera
Pasquale Anfossi – Olimpiade
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Iphigenie en Aulide Wq.40
Orphée et Eurydice, Wq.41 (French revision of Wq. 30) Josef Mysliveček – Artaserse, ED.10:B.b5 Giovanni Paisiello Il duello comico, R.1.41 La frascatana, R.1.43 Antonio Salieri – La Calamita de’ cuori
Classical music
Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 11
Johann Christian Bach – Symphony in B-flat major, W.B 17
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, F.9
Josse-François-Joseph Benaut – Mass in C major
Ernst Eichner – 2 Harpsichord Concertos, Op. 5
Joseph Haydn
Baryton Trio in D major, Hob.XI:34
Great Organ Mass
Niccolò Jommelli – Pietà Signore, H.Anh.42
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concertone in C major, K.190/186E
March in D major, K.237/189c
Symphony No. 29 in A
Symphony No. 30
Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges
2 Violin Concertos, Op. 3 (Paris: Bailleux) 2 Violin Concertos, Op. 4 (Paris: Bailleux) Carl Stamitz Concerto for Viola No. 1 in D major 6 Quartets, Op. 4 Johann Adolph Hasse – Il Ciclope
Methods and theory writings
Martin Gerbert – De cantu et musica sacra
Johann Adam Hiller
Anweisung zum musikalisch-richtigen Gesange
Exempel-Buch der Anweisung zum Singen
Heinrich Laag – Anfangsgründe zum Clavierspielen und Generalbas
Georg Simon Löhlein – Anweisung zum Vionlinspielen
Giovanni Battista Mancini – Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato Giovanni Battista Martini – Esemplare, o sia Saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden die Musik betreffend
Births
February 16 – Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830) March 5 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer April 17 – Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, organist and composer October 7 – Ferdinando Orlandi, composer October 23 – René de Chazet, librettist and writer (died 1844) November 14 – Gaspare Spontini, composer November 18 – William Horsley, composer December 20 – Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
Deaths
January 20 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, 44
January 30
Jean-Pierre Guignon, French composer (born 1702) Frantisek Tuma, composer, 69 July 1 (buried) – Wenceslaus Wodiczka, violinist and composer July 7 – Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer August 25 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer, 59 December 2 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer, 54