Music year 1791

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Music year 1791

Events

May 24th : Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch founds the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin , the world's first mixed choir. This is the starting point of mixed choir singing and the Bach renaissance in the 19th century .

Instrumental and vocal music (selection)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Ave verum ; Clarinet Concerto , KV 622 , his last completed instrumental work; on November 18, the composer completed his last work, the Little Masonic Cantata , KV 623, while he was bedridden. After his death, his widow Constanze offered his pupil Joseph von Eybler to complete the Requiem , a commissioned work for Count Franz von Walsegg , which he had begun , and was finally completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr .

Ludwig van Beethoven : Music for a knight ballet

Joseph Haydn : The composer is on his trip to London this year. There he composed the following works, among others: 93rd Symphony ; 94th Symphony (symphony with a bang) ; 95th Symphony , 96th Symphony

Johann Ladislaus Dussek : 6 violin sonatas

Anton Eberl : Bey Mozart's Grabe, cantata for solos, choir and harpsichord

Johann Gottlieb Naumann : Mass 5 (No. 17) in A minor ; Mass 7 (No. 19) A flat major

Musical theater

January 14th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the piano song Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling ( Come, dear May, and do ) KV 596 based on the text by Christian Adolph Overbeck .

March 19 : Premiere of the opera Camille ou Le Souterrain by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris (Comédie Italienne)

March 27 : The first performance of the opera Les Deux Sentinels of Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

March 30th : Premiere of the opera La dama soldato by Johann Gottlieb Naumann in Dresden

April 9 : World premiere of the opera Guillaume Tell by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)

June 16 : World premiere of the opera La locanda by Giovanni Paisiello in London.

July 30th : The opera The Surrender of Calais by Samuel Arnold premieres at the Little Theater in London.

September 6th : The world premiere of the opera La clemenza di Tito ( The Mildness of Titus ) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart takes place on the occasion of Emperor Leopold II's coronation as King of Bohemia in the Prague Estates Theater . The libretto is by Caterino Mazzolà based on a model by Pietro Metastasio .

September 30th : The world premiere of the opera Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart based on the libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder takes place at the Freihaustheater in Vienna.

October 10 : Premiere of the opera Agnès et Olivier by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris (Comédie Italienne)

December 28 : Premiere of the opera Philippe et Georgette by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris (Comédie Italienne)

Other works

Giovanni Paisiello : Ipermestra (opera based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio )
Luigi Cherubini : Lodoïska (Opera)
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul : Cora (Opera in 4 acts)
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli : Pirro re di Epiro
Stephen Storace : Three Operas (1) The Siege of Belgrade ; (2) The Cave of Trophonius ; (3) Poor Old Drury
Louis Emmanuel Jadin : La Vengeance du bailli ou La Suite d'Annette et Lubin (opera 2 acts); L'Heureux Stratagème (Opera 2 acts)
Peter von Winter : This year two operas by the composer will be released: (1) Antigona and (2) Catone in Utica .
Vicente Martín y Soler : Fedul and his children (opera, originally in Russian).

Born

January 28 : Ferdinand Hérold , French composer of Alsatian origin. († 1833 )
February 21 : Carl Czerny , Austrian pianist and piano teacher († 1857 )
0April 1 : Franciszek Mirecki , Polish composer († 1862 )
April 11 : Désiré Beaulieu , French composer († 1863 )
May 11 : Jan Václav Voříšek , Bohemian composer († 1825 )
0July 9 : Rudolph Bay , Danish composer († 1856 )
July 26 : Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart , Austrian composer († 1844 )
0September 5 : Giacomo Meyerbeer , German composer and conductor († 1864 )
October 7 : Friedrich Wilhelm Grund , German composer, conductor and music teacher († 1874 )
November 27 : Carlo Evasio Soliva , Italian composer of Swiss origin († 1853 )
0December 4th : Johann Gottlob Töpfer , German organist, composer and theoretician of organ building († 1870 )
0December 8 : Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner , German composer and conductor († 1856 )
December 31 : Franz Wild , Austrian opera singer († 1860 )

Died

0February 2 : Cecilia Grassi , Italian singer (* around 1740 )
May 14 : Franziska Lebrun , German opera singer (soprano) and composer (* 1756 )
May 17 : Jacob Wilhelm Lustig , Dutch composer, organist and music theorist (* 1706 )
August 25 : Pietro Domenico Paradies , Italian composer and teacher (* 1707 )
0September 2 : František Kočvara , Czech composer (* around 1740)
October 10 : Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart , German poet, composer and journalist (* 1739 )
October 25 : Giovanni Battista Ferrandini , Italian pre-classical composer (* around 1710 )
0December 5 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , composer from Salzburg (* 1756 )

Exact date of death unknown

Nicolaus Jantzon , German organ builder (* 1720 )
Giuseppe Demachi , Italian violinist and classical composer. (* 1732 )

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