Music year 1778
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- January 14th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets the composer Georg Joseph Vogler on a visit to Mannheim .
- March 23 : After a five-month stay in Mannheim, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his mother arrive in Paris. Mozart can perform his ballet music Les petits riens there, but does not get any other engagements.
- March 15th : Thomas Arne is buried in St Paul's Church (Covent Garden) after a funeral service .
- March 20 : Jiří Antonín Benda leaves his post as Kapellmeister at the court of Ernst II , Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg .
- March 26th : The seven year old Ludwig van Beethoven gives his first piano concerto in Cologne.
- July 3rd : Anna Maria Mozart , the mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, dies at 10 p.m. in Paris. The young Mozart then lived for a few months in an apartment owned by Baron Melchior Grimm , where Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, has also lived for two years.
- August 1st : The first publication of the drinking song To Anacreon in Heaven with the text by Ralph Tomlinson and the melody John Stafford Smith takes place in London . The American national anthem The Star-Spangled Banner will emerge from this melody with new lyrics by Francis Scott Key .
- August 3 : The Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens after a construction period of only 23 months as the successor to the Teatro Regio Ducale , which burned down in 1776, with the opera L'Europa riconosciuta by Antonio Salieri .
- August 27 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach in Paris.
- September 26th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins his return journey to Salzburg to take up the vacant position of court organist. The journey takes him via Strasbourg, Mannheim, Kaisersheim and Munich.
Operas and other stage works
- January 27 : Niccolò Piccini's first French opera, Roland , premieres at the Paris Opera.
- January : World premiere of the opera Antigono by Anton Adam Bachschmidt based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio in Eichstätt at the court of Raymund Anton von Strasoldo .
- February 17th : Ignaz Umlauf's Die Bergknappen is the first Singspiel by a local composer to be performed in Vienna.
- March 28 : Premiere of the opera Le jugement de Midas by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry at the Palais-Royal in Paris.
- April 4th : Premiere of the opera La clemenza di Scipione by Johann Christian Bach in the King's Theater .
- July 24th : The world premiere of the opera Lo sposo burlato by Giovanni Paisiello takes place at the Russian court in St. Petersburg .
- August 3 : World premiere of the opera “L'Europa riconosciuta” by Antonio Salieri at La Scala in Milan . Salieri wrote his major opera seria especially for the inauguration of the opera house.
- November 20 : World premiere of the opera Les fausses apparences ou L'Amant jaloux by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in the Palace Theater of Versailles .
- December 27 : World premiere of the opera La scuola de 'gelosi by Antonio Salieri at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice .
- The comic opera Martin Velten by Carl Christian Agthe will be premiered in the Theater im Gildenhaus in Reval .
- Pierre-Joseph Candeille - Les Deux Comtesses
- Christian Cannabich - Azakia
- Charles Dibdin - The Shepherdess of the Alps
- Antonio Sacchini - Erifile
- Peter von Winter - Cora and Alonzo (Opera)
- Vicente Martín y Soler : Four ballets all of which will be premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples: (1) Li novelli sposi persiani , (2) Agamemnone ; (3) L'eroismo di Caterina prima, imperatrice delle Russie and (4) Il barbiere di Siviglia (after Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais).
Chamber music
- Carl Philip Emanuel Bach - Six Sonatas for Connoisseurs and Lovers (clavichord, harpsichord or fortepiano)
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Luigi Boccherini
- 6 quintetti op.25
- 6 Quartettini op.26
- Jean-Frédéric Edelmann - 3 Sonates , Op. 6, pour clavecin
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Violin Sonata in C major (KV 296)
Church music
- Joseph Haydn - Missa brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo, Small Organ Solo Mass (Hob.XXII: 7)
Orchestral music
- François Joseph Gossec - Symphonie concertante in F major No. 2, "à plusieurs instruments"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Symphony No. 31 in D major, "Paris Symphony" (KV 297)
- Concerto for violin and piano in D major (KV315f)
- Sinfonia concertante for flute, oboe, horn and bassoon in E flat major (KV 297B)
- Flute Concerto in G major (KV 313 / KV 285c)
- Flute Concerto in D major (KV 314 / KV 285d)
- Andante for flute and orchestra, C major (KV 315 / KV 285e)
- Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra in C major (KV 299 / KV 297c)
Popular music
- William Billings - The Singing Master's Assistant
Born
- January 18 : Franz Weiß , Bohemian violist and composer († 1830 )
- February 14th (baptized): Fernando Sor , Spanish guitarist and composer († 1839 )
- March 8 : Friedrich August Kanne , Austrian composer and music writer († 1833 )
- May 8 : Johann Gänsbacher , Austrian composer and conductor († 1844 )
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- September 27 : Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen , German composer and music teacher († 1851 )
- November 14 : Johann Nepomuk Hummel , Austrian composer and pianist († 1837 )
- Domenico Barbaja , Italian impresario and opera director († 1841 )
- Henry Smart , English violinist, violist and composer († 1824 )
Died
- February 15 : Johann Gottlieb Görner , German composer and organist (* 1697 )
- March 5 : Thomas Arne , British composer (* 1710 )
- March 5 : Giovanni Battista Costanzi , Italian composer and cellist (* 1704 )
- April 3 : Francesco Corselli , Italian composer (* 1705 )
- April 4 : Georg Andreas Sorge , German composer and music theorist (* 1703 )
- April 7th : Johann Balthasar Kehl , German composer and organist (* 1725 )
- May 8th : Lorenz Christoph Mizler , German scholar, writer, physician, printer, bookseller, music theorist and musicologist (* 1711 )
- June 7th : Johann Georg Zechner , Austrian organist and composer (* 1716 )
- June 15 : František Jiránek , Bohemian composer (* 1698 )
- June 19 : Francesca Cuzzoni , Italian opera singer with a soprano voice (* 1696 )
- July 2nd : Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Geneva writer, philosopher, educator, naturalist and composer (* 1712 )
- July 3 : Anna Maria Mozart , mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (* 1720 )
- July 26th : Philipp Ernst Wegmann , German organ builder (* 1734 )
- August 5th : Thomas Linley junior , English composer and violinist (* 1756 )
- August 11th : Giuseppe Lolli , court conductor and tenor (* 1701 )
- August 11 : Augustus Montague Toplady , English clergyman and song poet (* 1740 )
- August 24 : Johannes Ringk , German composer and organist (* 1717 )
- September 23 : Quirino Gasparini , Italian composer and cellist (* 1721 )
- October 30 : Davide Perez , Italian opera composer (* 1711 )
- November 26 : Jean-Noël Hamal , Walloon composer (* 1709 )
- December 23 : Andreas Dieterich , German religious and church musician (* 1717 )
- December: Hermann Friedrich Raupach , German composer (* 1728 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Antonio Vandini , Italian cellist and composer (* around 1690 )
Died around 1778
- Americus Backers , Dutch inventor of piano mechanics (* around 1740 )
- Marguerite Antoinette Couperin , French harpsichordist (* 1705 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1778 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1778 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 132-134 and 138