Music year 1784

Music year 1784

Events

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : 14th piano concerto KV 449; 15th piano concerto KV 450; 16th piano concerto KV 451; 18th piano concerto KV 456; 19th piano concerto KV 459; Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon in E flat major KV 452; Funeral March in C minor KV 453a
Joseph Haydn : 79th Symphony ; 80th Symphony and 81st Symphony ; Three sonatas for Princess Marie Esterházy (piano music);
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier : Quatre hymnes
Ludwig van Beethoven : 0th piano concerto
Anton Eberl : Symphony in G major

February 26 : In the theater of Eszterháza in Esterház finds premiere of the opera Armida by Joseph Haydn instead. The libretto was probably compiled by Nunziato Porta. It is based on Torquato Tasso's epic The Liberated Jerusalem .
March 8 : World premiere of the opera The Double Disguise by James Hook op.32
April 26th : The tragédie lyrique Les Danaïdes by Antonio Salieri, dedicated to the French Queen Marie Antoinette, based on a text by François Bailly du Roullet and Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, based on an Italian version by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi , premiered in Paris with great success.
June 24 : World premiere of the opera L'épreuve villageoise by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)

23 August : Premiere of the opera Il re Teodoro in Venezia by Giovanni Paisiello in Vienna

October 10 : World premiere of the drama I due supposti ossia Lo sposo senza moglie by Domenico Cimarosa at the Teatro alla Scala di Milano in Milan

October 21 : Premiere of the opera Richard Cœur de Lion by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry at the Opéra-Comique in Paris

December 6 : premiere of the opera Il ricco d'un giorno by Antonio Salieri in Vienna, (Burgtheater)

December 26th : World premiere of the opera L'Idalide by Luigi Cherubini in Florence

Other works

Luigi Cherubini : L'Alessandro nell'Indie (opera) based on a libretto from 1730 that has been set to music many times
Domenico Cimarosa : Six other operas: (1) I matrimoni impensati ; (2) L'apparenza inganna , o sia La villeggiatura ; (3) La vanita delusa ; (4) L'olimpiade ; (5) Artaserse ; (6) Il barone burlato
Giuseppe Sarti : Gli amanti consolati, dramma giocoso (opera) premiered in St. Petersburg
Peter von Winter : Das Hirtenmädchen (Singspiel based on a libretto by H. Braun, premiered in Munich)
Vicente Martín y Soler : Le burle per amore (opera); Philistaei a Jonatha dispersi (sacred music for the stage, Actio sacra )

January 27 : Martin-Joseph Mengal , Belgian horn player, composer and conductor († 1851 )
March 25 : François-Joseph Fétis , Belgian composer , music critic and music biographer († 1871 )
0April 5 : Louis Spohr , German composer, conductor, violinist († 1859 )
0April 8 : Dionisio Aguado , Spanish guitarist and composer († 1849 )
June 14 : Francesco Morlacchi , Italian composer and conductor († 1841 )
0July 2 : Teresa Belloc , Italian opera singer († 1855 )
July 27 : George Onslow , French composer († 1853 )
July 30th : Leopold Schefer , German poet and composer († 1862 )
August 15 : Pierre-Auguste-Louis Blondeau , French composer and musicologist († 1865 )
September 21 : Carl Thomas Mozart , Austrian civil servant and son of Wolfgang Amadeus and Constanze Mozart († 1858 )
October 24 : Marco Berra , Italian music publisher in Prague († 1853 )
November 14 : Karl Friedrich Schulz , German Protestant hymn composer and music teacher († 1850 )
November 28 : Ferdinand Ries , German piano player and composer († 1838 )

January 24th : Andrea Bernasconi , Italian composer (* 1706 )
February 19 : Thomas Morell , English clergyman and librettist (* 1703 )
February 24 : Anton Laube , Bohemian composer and church musician (* 1718 )
0March 3 : Claude Parisot , French organ builder (* 1704 )
March 8 : Johann Adam Ehrlich , German organ builder and instrument maker (* 1703 )
April 28 : Johann Stephan Schmaltz , German organ builder (* 1715 )
May 15 : Jacob Schuback , Hamburg lawyer, diplomat and composer (* 1726 )
0July 1 : Georg Daniel Auberlen , German schoolmaster, musician and composer (* 1728 )

0July 1 : Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , German composer (* 1710 )
July 7th : Louis Anseaume , French librettist (* 1721 )
0August 3 : Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian composer and music theorist (* 1706 )
August 6th : Karl Kohaut , Austrian lutenist, composer and court official (* 1726 )
September 14 : Nicolas Capron , French composer and violinist (* before 1740 )
October 5 : Antonín Kammel , violinist and composer (* 1730 )
October 27 : Johann Gottlieb Graun , German violinist and composer (* 1703 )
November 14th : Joseph Schuster , bass player and ensemble member at the court theater of the Dresden Elector (* 1722 )
November 15 : Jan Hataš , Czech composer (* 1751 )

Antoine Dard , French composer, oboist, bassoonist and music theorist (* around 1715 )

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