Music year 1787
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Instrumental music (selection)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Horn Concerto in E flat major (KV 447); A Little Night Music ( Serenade No. 13 for Strings in G major ) KV 525; A musical fun KV 522, String Quintet No. 3 in C major KV 515; String Quintet No. 4 in G minor KV 516; Sonata for piano and violin in A major KV 526 ; Rondo in A minor KV 511;
- Joseph Haydn : 88th Symphony ; 89th Symphony ; The seven last words of our Savior on the Cross ;
- Johann Ladislaus Dussek : Piano Concerto E flat op. 3 c33; 3 sonatas in C, Bb and F op. 1 c27–29; 3 Sonatas F, Eb , and F op. 4 c37–39; 3 sonatas for piano, violin and violoncello
- Andreas Romberg : Mass in B flat major
Musical theater
- January 12th : World premiere of the opera Pirro by Giovanni Paisiello in Naples, (Teatro San Carlo)
- March 14th : The world premiere of the opera Andromeda e Perseo by Michael Haydn takes place in Salzburg.
- March 22nd : Premiere of the opera Toinette et Louis by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)
- June 8 : At the Paris Opéra , the opera Tarare by Antonio Salieri, based on a text by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, celebrates an unparalleled success at its premiere .
- July 14 : World premiere of the opera Les Promesses de mariage by Henri Montan Berton at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- July 19 : Premiere of the opera Renaud d'Ast by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris, (Comédie Italienne)
- September 8 : World premiere of the opera Giunone Lucina by Giovanni Paisiello in Naples, (Teatro San Carlo)
- October 1st : Premiere of the opera L'arbore di Diana by Vicente Martín y Soler in the Burgtheater in Vienna. The libretto is by Lorenzo Da Ponte .
- October 21 : premiere of the opera La reggia d'Imeneo by Johann Gottlieb Naumann in Dresden
- October 29th : World premiere of the opera Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the National Theater (Graeflich Nostitzsches National Theater) in Prague
- December 5th : World premiere of the opera La Dame invisible ou L'Amant à l'épreuve by Henri Montan Berton at the Opéra-Comique in Paris
- December 26th : World premiere of the opera Le prisonnier anglais by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)
Other works
- Giovanni Paisiello : Two other operas: Il barbiere di Siviglia, ovvero La precauzione inutile ; La modista raggiratrice
- Domenico Cimarosa : L'impostore punito (opera); Volodimiro (opera); Il fanatico burlato
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf : Hieronymus Knicker (opera); Love in the madhouse (opera)
- Giuseppe Sarti : Alessandro nell'Indie (opera) based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio set to music by several composers
- Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli : Ifigenia in Aulide (opera); La passione di Gesù Cristo (Oratorio)
- Anton Eberl : The Marchande des Modes , (Singspiel in three acts) Music lost
- Vicente Martín y Soler : Il sogno (Cantata); Dodici canoni a tre voci (vocal stage work); XII canzonette italiane (vocal stage work); La Sandrina ossia La contadina in corte (ballet).
Born
- February 1 : Johann Joachim Wachsmann , German choir conductor and composer († 1853 )
- March 1 : Tobias Haslinger , Austrian music publisher and composer († 1842 )
- July 7th : César Malan , teacher, reformed pastor and composer of hymns († 1864 )
- August 15 : Alexander Alexandrovich Aljabjew , Russian composer († 1851 )
- August 31 : Louis Antoine Ponchard , French opera singer († 1866 )
- November 11th : Michail Wielhorski , Russian composer, cellist and patron
- November 17 : Michele Carafa , Italian composer († 1872 )
- November 25 : Franz Xaver Gruber composer of the Christmas carol Silent Night, Holy Night († 1863 )
- December 4 : Johan Fredrik Berwald , Swedish composer († 1861 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Michael Frey , German composer, violinist and Kapellmeister († 1832 )
- Karl Angelus Winkhler , Hungarian composer and piano teacher († 1845 )
Died
- March 16 : Johann Christian Pfennig , German organ builder (* 1706 )
- March 30th : Amalie von Prussia , abbess of the Quedlinburg monastery and composer (* 1723 )
- April 5 : Adelheid Maria Eichner , German composer, singer and pianist (* 1762 )
- April 22nd : Josef Starzer , Austrian composer and violinist of the pre-classical period. (* 1726 )
- May 28 : Leopold Mozart , German composer and music teacher (* 1719 )
- June : Ignazio Fiorillo , Italian opera composer, representative of the so-called Neapolitan School, and court conductor in Braunschweig and Kassel (* 1715 )
- June 10 : María Antonia Vallejo , Spanish actress and singer (* 1751 )
- June 13 : Josef Bárta , Czech composer (* 1744 )
- June 20 : Carl Friedrich Abel , German Baroque composer (* 1723 )
- July 17th : Johann Ernst Döring , German organ builder (* 1704 )
- August 5th : François Francœur , French violinist and composer (* 1698 )
- November 15 : Christoph Willibald Gluck , German composer (* 1714 )
- November 23 : Anton Schweitzer , German composer. (* 1735 )
- December 9 : Bernhard Joachim Hagen , German composer (* 1720 )
See also
Web links
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