Music year 1779

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Music year 1779
On April 7th, the English soprano Martha Ray is murdered by a jealous suitor.

Events

• February 16 : Composer William Boyce is buried in St. Paul's Cathedral . The choirs of St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal sing at his funeral.
• April : London Magazine reports on three-year-old child prodigy William Crotch playing the organ . At the age of 2 years and 3 months he is said to have been able to play the English national anthem on an organ constructed by his father, a carpenter.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart begins work on the Singspiel Zaide , which, however, remains unfinished. It was not until 1866 that the fragment was first performed in Frankfurt am Main.
• The now no longer preserved opera house in Esterházy Palace burns down, but will be rebuilt after two years.

Operas and other stage works

• January 17th : The comic opera Das Grab des Mufti or Die Zwei (Zwei) Geizigen by Johann Adam Hiller has its world premiere .
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  Demetrio, 3rd act, 8th scene "Son tuo vasallo, ed il mio Re tu sei"
  February 14 : The world premiere of the opera Gli Astrologi immaginari ( The Conceited Astrologers ) by Giovanni Pacini takes place in Saint Petersburg.
• April 25 : The world premiere of the opera La vera costanza ( The Fluttery Lover ) by Joseph Haydn takes place in Esterház .
• May 18th : The opera Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck has its world premiere at the Paris Opera .
• August 13 : World premiere of the opera Il Demetrio by Josef Myslivečeks based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
• September 20th : First performance of the melodrama Pygmalion by Georg Benda in Gotha.
• December 6th : The world premiere of the opera L'isola disabitata ( The Uninhabited Island ) by Joseph Haydn takes place in Esterház .
• December 14th : The opera Amadis de Gaule by Johann Christian Bach, based on the libretto by Philippe Quinault already set to music by Jean-Baptiste Lully , fails at its premiere in Paris at the Académie Royale de Musique .
• December 26th : The Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens the carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera Armida.
• December 30th : The opera Aucassin et Nicolette ou Les mœurs du bon vieux temps by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry is premiered in the Palace of Versailles .
• The opera La Circe by Josef Mysliveček based on the libretto by D. Perrell will be performed in Venice at the Teatro San Benedetto

Premiered.

• World premiere of the opera L'infedeltà fedele by Domenico Cimarosa .
• Also in 1779 Peter von Winter brought out his second opera Lenardo and Blandine in Munich.
• Vicente Martín y Soler publishes several works: (1) Ifigenia in Aulide (opera); (2) Il re Gerone (cantata); (3) Griselda (ballet); (4) Orfeo su Monte Rodope (ballet) and (5) Artaserse (ballet).

Chamber music

• Luigi Boccherini
  • 6 Quintettini op.27
  • 6 quintetti op.28
  • 6 Quintetti op.29

Church music

• March 23 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed probably for the Easter celebrations on April 4 in Salzburg Cathedral written exhibition , which years later under the name Coronation Mass gained notoriety.

Orchestral music

• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphony No. 70 in D major
  • Symphony No. 71 in B flat major
  • Symphony No. 75 in D major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Symphony No. 32 in G major (KV 318)
  • Symphony No. 33 in G major (KV 319)
  • Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major (KV 364 / 320d)
  • Sinfonia concertante for violin, viola and cello in A major (KV 320e)
  • Piano Concerto No. 10 for two pianos in E flat major (KV 365)
  • Serenade No. 9 in D major, "Posthorn" (KV 320)
  • March in D major (KV 320a No. 1)
  • March in D major (KV 320a No. 2)

Publications

• Francesco Antonio Vallotti - Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the theoretical and practical science of modern music)

Born

• January 15 : Jean Coralli , French dancer and ballet master of Italian origin († 1854 )
• February 2 : Georg Heinrich Lux , German school teacher, organist and composer († 1861 )
• February 5 : François (Frans) Van Campenhout , Belgian opera singer, conductor and composer († 1848 )
• February 22 : Joachim Nicolas Eggert , Swedish composer and conductor († 1813 )
• February 23 : Johann Kaspar Aiblinger , German composer and Kapellmeister († 1867 )
• March 1 : Jacob Gottfried Weber , German music theorist, composer, lawyer and member of parliament († 1839 )
• March 21 : Alexis de Garaudé , French music teacher and composer († 1852 )
• March 29 : Christian Heinrich Zeller , German pedagogue and hymn poet of the pietistic direction († 1860 )
• April 17 : Friedrich von Boyneburgk , German composer and clarinetist and chamberlain († 1854 )
• April 20 : Gottlob August Krille , German composer and Kreuzkantor († 1813 )
• May 15 : Wilhelm Lechleitner , Austrian composer, choir director and teacher († 1827 )
• May 28 : Thomas Moore , Irish poet, writer, translator and ballad singer († 1852 )
• June 3 : Ludwig Zinkeisen , German violinist, violin teacher and composer († 1838 )
• June 23 : Johann Baptist Schiedermayr , German composer and church musician († 1840 )
• July 20 : Ignaz Schuster , Austrian actor and composer († 1835 )
• August 17 : Franz de Paula Roser , Austrian composer and conductor († 1830 )
• September 10 : Louis Alexandre Piccinni , French composer († 1850 )
• October 4 : Pamphile Léopold François Aimon , French composer († 1866 )
• December 2 : Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov , Russian composer († 1856 )

William Boyce

Tommaso Traetta

Died

• February 2 : Georg Philipp Kress , German composer and violinist (* 1719 )
• February 7 : William Boyce , English composer (* 1711 )
• February 12 : Henrik Filip Johnsen , Swedish composer (* 1717 )
• March 13 : Roman Benedikt Nollet , organ builder (* 1710 )
• March 17th : Franz Leopold Graff , Austrian composer (* 1719 )
• April 6 : Ernst Christoph Dressler , German composer, tenor, violinist and music theorist (* 1734 )
• April 6 : Tommaso Traetta , Italian composer (* 1727 )
• April 7th : Martha Ray , English singer (* 1742 )
• April 10 : Grigory Nikolajewitsch Teplow , Russian composer (* 1717 )
• April 18 : François Granier , French composer , cellist and violinist (* 1717 )
• April: Gottfried Heinrich Gloger , German organ builder (* 1710 )
• May 29th (buried): Johann Adolph Hass , German harpsichord and clavichord maker (* 1713 )
• July 14th : Anton Römer , Austrian organ builder (* 1724 )
• July 18 : Luisa Bergalli , Italian poet and librettist (* 1703 )
• October 12 : Joseph Garnier , French composer and Kapellmeister (* unknown)
• November 13th : Johann Adam , German violist and composer (* around 1705 )
• November 25th : François Dom Bédos de Celles , French Benedictine, organ builder, appraiser and writer (* 1709 )
• November 27 : Josse Boutmy , composer and harpsichordist from the Habsburg Netherlands (Belgium) (* 1697 )
• December 5 : Herman Antonín Jelínek , Bohemian composer and violin virtuoso (* 1709 )
• December 23 : Franciscus Volckland , German organ builder (* 1696 )
• December 28 : Gennaro Manna , Italian composer (* 1715 )
• Domenico Annibali , Italian old castrato (* between 1700 and 1705 )
• Hieronymus Spiegel , German organ builder (* 1699 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1779  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1779  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 132-135