Music year 1780
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- April 7th : The Grand Théâtre , built by Victor Louis in the style of Italian classicism , is opened in Bordeaux , which contemporaries call the largest and most beautiful theater in France. Jean Racine's drama Athalie from 1691 will be played at the festive event .
- November 5th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Munich to take part in the world premiere of his Opera seria Idomeneo (KV 366), which he composed this year, on January 29th .
- Johann Andreas Cramer , Chancellor of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , publishes the Cramer hymnbook in Altona .
- The Christmas carol The Twelve Days of Christmas is published for the first time in an English children's book .
- The Danish royal national anthem " Kong Christian " is sung for the first time.
- The third edition of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's music pedagogical textbook, An attempt on the true way of playing the piano, is published.
Operas and other stage works
- June 5th : The opera La finta amante by Giovanni Paisiello is premiered in Mogiljow .
- June 6 : World premiere of the opera Andromaque by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry on the libretto by Louis-Guillaume Pitra at the Paris Opera.
- September 23 : The opera Adelheit von Veltheim by Christian Gottlob Neefe is premiered in Frankfurt am Main.
- December 6th : The opera Alcide al bivio by Giovanni Paisiello is premiered in Sankt Peterburg .
- By Domenico Cimarosa in Rome, the two opera Le donne rivali and Cajo Mario, in Naples, the three operas I Finti nobili, Il falegname and L'avviso ai Maritati premiered.
- The opera Cleopatra by Franz Danzi based on the libretto by Johann Leopold Neumann will be premiered at the Hoftheater in Mannheim .
- Niccolò Piccinni - Atys
- Bernardo Porta - La Principessa d'Amalfi
- Peter von Winter : Reinhold and Armida (opera)
- Vicente Martín y Soler : Ipermestra (opera); Andromaca (opera); Il ratto delle Sabine (ballet); Pietro, re di Aragona, o sia Il trionfo della virtù (ballet); Semiramide (ballet); Zemira ed Azor (ballet).
Chamber music
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Luigi Boccherini
- 6 Quintettini op.30 (including No. 6 Musica Notturna delle Strade di Madrid )
- 6 Quintetti op.31
- 6 quartetti op.32
- Joseph Haydn - Six Sonatas for Harpsichord and Pianoforte Op. 30
Church music
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Giob (oratorio)
Orchestral music
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 62 in D major
- Symphony No. 74 in E flat major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 34 in C major (KV 338)
Born
- March 8 : Thomas Carr , American music publisher, composer and organist († 1849 )
- March 10 : Juan José Landaeta , Venezuelan composer († 1814 )
- June 18 : Michael Henkel , German composer († 1851 )
- July 25 : Christian Theodor Weinlig , German music teacher, composer and choir conductor († 1842 )
- August 19 : Pierre-Jean de Béranger , French poet and songwriter († 1857 )
- November 3 : Victor Dourlen , French composer († 1864 )
- November 22nd : Conradin Kreutzer , German composer († 1849 )
- December 29 : Jakob Moralt , German musician († 1820 )
Died
- January 1 : Johann Ludwig Krebs , German composer and organist (* 1713 )
- January 10 : Francesco Antonio Vallotti , Italian composer, music theorist and organist (* 1697 )
- April 21 : Ferdinand Zellbell , Swedish composer (* 1719 )
- April 23 : Maria Antonia von Bayern , Bavarian art patron and composer, painter and poet (* 1724 )
- May 4th : Christian Ernst Friederici , German organ and piano builder (* 1709 )
- May 14 : Pierre-Montan Berton , French composer, conductor and tenor (* 1727 )
- June 18 : Johann Philipp Seuffert , organ builder from Main Franconia (* 1693 )
- September 7th : Franz Lamotte , Flemish violinist and composer (* around 1751 )
- October 14th : Johann Georg Fischer , German organ builder (* 1697 )
- November 5th : Christian Friedrich Voigt , German organ builder and organist (* around 1725 ?)
- December 14th : Ignatius Sancho , English composer and writer of African descent (* 1729 )
- Benedetta Emilia Agricola , opera singer of Italian descent with a soprano voice (* 1722 )
- Domenico Ferrari , Italian violinist and early classical composer (* 1722 )
- Johann Baptist Georg Neruda , Bohemian violinist and pre-classical composer (* 1707 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1780 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1780 - 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. 132-133 and 135-138