Music year 1781

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Music year 1781
Extract from the original score of the opera Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, which premiered on January 29th

Events

January 29th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart takes part in the successful world premiere of his Opera seria Idomeneo (KV 366). Then he travels to Vienna.
June 8th : After previous violent disputes with Archbishop Hieronymus Franz Josef von Colloredo , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart resigns from his Salzburg service, settles in Vienna and earns his living there through concerts in private and public academies.
October 12 : The first bagpipe competition in Scotland takes place in Falkirk .
The Leopoldstadt Theater , designed by Jean-Baptiste Brequin and master builder Peter Mollner , is the first Viennese suburban theater to open.

The libretto Belmont and Constanze published in Leipzig , or Die Entführung aus dem Serail by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner , which is reworked and expanded by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is the basis for the libretto of Mozart's next opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail .

Operas and other stage works

Stage of the Residenztheater in Munich

Tenor Anton Raaff sings his last title role

Jan. 29 : At the Munich Residenz Theater is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Idomeneo premiered in presence of the composer with success. The famous tenor Anton Raaf sings his last title role here. Mozart called the opera his best all his life.

25 February : The opera La fedeltà premiata ( The rewarded loyalty ) by Joseph Haydn is premiered in Esterház .

April 21 : The premiere of the opera Elisa by Johann Gottlieb Naumann takes place at the Small Electoral Theater in Dresden .

April 30th : The German-language opera Der Rauchfangkehrer or The indispensable betrayers of their lords by Antonio Salieri premieres at the Burgtheater in Vienna with Catarina Cavalieri and Ludwig Fischer in the leading roles. The libretto of Leopold Auenbrugger is strongly criticized, but Salieri's music is received with enthusiasm.

Domenico Cimarosa - Giannina e Bernardone

Nicolas Dalayrac - Le Chevalier à la mode

Marc-Antoine Désaugiers - Les Deux sylphes

Niccolò Piccinni - Iphigenie en Tauride

Giuseppe Sarti - Giulio Sabino

Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - Montesuma

Vicente Martín y Soler : Four ballets: (1) Orfeo ed Euridice ; (2) Tamas Kouli-Kan ; (3) Il matrimonio dell'imperatore della Cina and (4) La bella Arsene .

Extract from the score of the opera “Der Rauchfangkehrer” by Antonio Salieri

Chamber music

Luigi Boccherini
- 6 string quartets ( Opera piccola ) op.33 (G. 207–212)
- 6 string trios for 2 violins and violoncello op. 34 (G. 101–106)

Joseph Haydn - String Quartets Op. 33 "Russian Quartets"
Leopold Koželuh - Sonata for keyboard instruments op. 5 in F major "La chasse"

Church music

Luigi Boccherini - Stabat mater (G. 532)

Orchestral music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Rondo in C major (KV 373)
- Rondo for horn and orchestra in E flat major (KV 371)
- Serenade No. 11 in E flat major (KV 375)
Giovanni Paisiello - Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major
Samuel Wesley - Violin Concerto No. 2 in D major

Born

January 22 : François-Antoine habeneck , French violinist and composer († 1849 )
March 18 : Gustave Vogt , French oboist, music teacher and composer († 1870 )
April 22nd : Hermann Uber , German composer and Kreuzkantor († 1822 )
May 24th : Louis François Dauprat , French horn player, composer and professor of horn († 1868 )
July 27 : Mauro Giuliani , Italian guitarist and composer († 1829 )
September 5 : Anton Diabelli , Austrian composer († 1858 )
September 6 : Vincent Novello , English musician († 1861 )
November 9 : Karl Borromäus von Miltitz , German poet and composer († 1845 )
December 1st : Charles Philippe Lafont , French violinist. († 1839 )
December 24th : Georg Jakob Strunz , German musician and composer († 1852 )
Albert Androt , French composer († 1804 )

Josef Mysliveček

Anna Franziska Benda

Died

February 4th : Josef Mysliveček , Czech composer (* 1737 )
February 15 : Anna Franziska Benda , Bohemian-German singer (* 1728 )
March 3 : Nicolas Dupont , French organ builder (* 1714 )
March 16 : Jean Esprit Isnard , French Dominican and organ builder (* 1707 )
May 16 : Jacopo Puccini , Italian composer and organist (* 1712 )
March 29 : Johann Theodor Keyßner , German composer, violinist and Kapellmeister (* between 1708 and 1712 )
July 11 : Adolf Karl Kunzen , German composer and organist (* 1720 )
October 9 : Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie , Scottish violinist and composer (* 1732 )
October 27 : Herman-François Delange , Belgian violinist and composer (* 1715 )
October : Anton Zimmermann , Austrian composer (* 1741 )
November 4th : Faustina Bordoni , Italian singer (* 1697 )
December 16 : Georg Simon Löhlein , German violinist, pianist, composer and music teacher (* 1725 )
Juan de Ledesma , Spanish violinist and composer (* 1713 )
Gottfried Sonnholz , Austrian organ builder (* 1695 )

Web links

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Commons : Opera Libretti 1781 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, p. 138 ff

[1] Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, p. 138 ff