Music year 1783

Music year 1783
On September 24th, the Bolshoi Kamenny Theater opens in Saint Petersburg.

Events

In Vienna around 1782/83 , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart met the Dutch diplomat Gottfried van Swieten , a proven music lover and prefect of the imperial library, now the Austrian National Library . At the regular Sunday concerts in van Swieten's rooms in the imperial library, he introduced him to the manuscripts of Johann Sebastian Bach and Georg Friedrich Handel , which he had collected in Berlin. The encounter with these baroque composers makes a deep impression on Mozart and has a great influence on his compositions.
March 23 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives a large academy concert in the Vienna Burgtheater in the presence of Emperor Joseph II. Several of his works will be premiered, including his 35th symphony in D major, " Haffner Symphony" (KV 385 ) and his 13th piano concerto in C major (KV 415).
June 17th : Raimund Leopold, the first child of Constanze Mozart and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, is born, but dies on August 19th with his wet nurse in Vienna while the parents are in Salzburg.
August 23 : The pianist Maria Anna Mozart , the sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
September 24 : The Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in Saint Petersburg opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera Il mondo della luna .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart finishes work on the Great Mass in C minor ( KV 427).
The Scottish piano maker John Broadwood has his invention of the pedal for canceling damping patented in England.

January 20 : The world premiere of the musical drama Tancredi by Ignaz Holzbauer takes place in Munich.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is working on the operas L'oca del Cairo (KV 422) and Lo sposo deluso ossia La rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante (KV 430), of which, however, only fragments are available.
April 28 : In 1783 the Comédie-Italienne moved from the Hôtel de Bourgogne to a new building that offered 2,000 spectators instead of the previous 1,500. To mark the occasion, André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry wrote Thalie au nouveau théâtre ( Thalia in the new theater).
October 30 : One of the greatest successes in the history of the Paris Opera was La caravane du Caire (The Caravan of Cairo ) by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry , with 506 performances until 1829 , which premiered in Fontainebleau. The plot is similar to Mozart's opera Entführung aus dem Serail, written the year before .
Vincenzo Fabrizi - I tre gobbi rivali
Vicente Martín y Soler : Vologeso (opera based on a libretto by Apostolo Zeno); La Dora festeggiante (vocal music); Cristiano II, re di Danimarca (ballet); Piuttosto la morte che la schiavitù (ballet).

Luigi Boccherini - Villancicos al Nacimiento de Ntro Senor Jesu-Christo (G. 539)
Michael Haydn - Alleluia! Laudate Pueri, Graduale in festo SS. Innocentium, Dominica (MH 342)
Samuel Wesley - Magnificat

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas in E flat major, F major and D major, "Kurfuerstensonaten" (WoO 47)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330
- Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331
  
  Part of the rondo "Alla Turca" from the piano sonata No. 11 in A major KV 331 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sonata No. 13 in B flat major, K. 333
- Six variations on the aria Salve tu, Domine from the opera I filosofi immaginarii by Giovanni Paisiello (KV 398)
- Fugue in C minor for 2 pianos (KV 426)

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Six symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Joseph Haydn - Cello Concerto in D major (Hob.VIIb: 2)
Michael Haydn - Symphony in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Symphony No. 36 in C major, "Linz" Symphony (KV 425)
- Symphony No. 37 in G major (KV 444), probably November 1783
- Horn Concerto in E flat major (KV 417)
- Divertimenti No. 1 to 5 in B flat major (KV 229 / 439b), 1783–1785
Giovanni Battista Viotti - Piano Concerto No. 7 in G major

André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry - Anacreontic Ode Le marché de Cythère (Savez-vous qu'il tient tous les jours)

Robert Burns - "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o 'Barley" and other songs

January 12 : Erik Gustaf Geijer , Swedish writer and composer († 1847 )
January 20 : Friedrich Dotzauer , German cellist and composer († 1860 )
January 24th : Theodor Kniewel , German teacher, choirmaster and Lutheran pastor († 1859 )
January 26 : Helmina von Chézy , German journalist, poet and librettist († 1856 )
February 15 : Johann Nepomuk von Poißl , German composer and artistic director († 1865 )
March 8 : Gottfried Wilhelm Fink , German composer, Protestant theologian and poet († 1846 )
March 26 : Johann Baptist Weigl , German clergyman, theologian, mathematician and composer († 1852 )
June 29 : August Alexander Klengel , German pianist, organist and composer († 1852 )
November 1 : Adolph Bargiel , German piano and vocal teacher and violinist († 1841 )
November 1 : Johann Christoph Hilf , German musician († 1885 )
December 16 : Georg Karl Wisner von Morgenstern , Croatian composer, conductor and music teacher († 1855 )