Music year 1792

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Music year 1792

Events

April 26 : Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle writes the hymn Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin , later known as Marseillaise .
May 16 : The Teatro La Fenice , built by the architect Gian Antonio Selva , opens in Venice . The name is an allusion to the mythological phoenix , as the theater was built on the site of an opera house that burned down in 1773 . For the inauguration of the new theater, the opera will I Giuochi d'Agrigento by Giovanni Paisiello premiered.

Instrumental music (selection)

Luigi Boccherini : A Symphony; 4 string quintets for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos; 6 string quartets
Joseph Haydn : 97th Symphony ; 98th Symphony ; Sinfonia concertante (also known as Symphony No. 105 )
Johann Ladislaus Dussek : Concerto for piano / harp and orchestra F op. 17 (around 1792); Piano Sonata a Op. 18 (around 1792)
Andreas Romberg : Violin Concerto VIII in E flat major , SteR 48
Anton Eberl : Sonata for piano and violin in F major op.49
Ludwig van Beethoven : Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major (fragment); “An Minna” song (D major) for voice and piano (unfinished); Allegretto (E flat major) for piano, violin and violoncello (unfinished)

Musical theater

January 16 : Premiere of the opera Cécile et Ermancé ou Les deux couvents by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)

February 7th : Il matrimonio segreto ( The Secret Marriage ), a comic opera in two acts by Domenico Cimarosa , is so successful at its premiere at the Vienna Hofburgtheater that it was performed again on the same evening at the behest of Emperor Leopold II, who was in the audience must be listed. The libretto comes from the Italian lyricist Giovanni Bertati , who used the comedy The Clandestine Marriage by David Garrick and George Colman the Elder , which was successfully premiered at the Royal Theater Drury Lane in 1766.

March 14th : Premiere of the opera Isaac a role model for the Savior by Friedrich Heinrich Himmel in Berlin. The libretto is by Pietro Metastasio and has been set to music many times by other composers.

May 12 : premiere of the opera Amore giustificato by Johann Gottlieb Naumann in Dresden

16th May World premiere of the opera I giuochi d'Agrigento by Giovanni Paisiello in Venice (see above)

May 19 : The premiere of the comedy Les Deux Sous-lieutenants ou Le Concert interrompu by Henri Montan Berton takes place at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.

June 2nd : World premiere of the opera Look ere you Leap by James Hook

July 7th : Premiere of the opera Tout pour l'amour ou Roméo et Juliette by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris (Comédie Italienne)

October 17th : World premiere of the opera Bazile ou À trompeur, trompeur et demi by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry in Paris (Comédie-Italienne)

November 4 : The opera Elfrida by Giovanni Paisiello is premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .

Other works

Giovanni Paisiello : Two other operas by the composer were premiered in 1792: Il fanatico in Berlina and Il ritorno d'Idomeneo
Antonio Salieri : Catilina (opera) premiere posthumously 1994 in Darmstadt; Il mondo alla rovescia (Opera) completed in 1792 and premiered in 1795
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul : Stratonice , (comédie-héroïque, stage work) in one act
André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry : L'officier de fortune (Opera in 3 acts) completed in 1792, premiered posthumously in 2012 in Liège
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli : Three operas: (1) Annibale in Torino ; (2) L'oracolo sannita ; (3) Il mercato di Monfregoso
Stephen Storace : The Pirates (Opera) premiered in London
Joseph Weigl : The Strazzensammler or A good heart adorns every stand , opera in one act;
Louis Emmanuel Jadin : Amélie de Monfort (opera 3 acts); Il signor di Pursognac (opera after Molière); L'Avare puni (Opera)
Johann Baptist Henneberg : The honest farmer (opera)
Peter von Winter : Il sacrificio di Creta, ossia Arianna e Teseo (opera based on a libretto by Pietro Pariati). First performed in Venice.
Vicente Martín y Soler : Didon abandonnée (ballet); La conquista del Perù o sia Telasco ed Amazili (ballet).

Born

0January 8 : Lowell Mason , American composer and music teacher († 1872 )
January 16 : Franz Ludwig Jörgens , German preacher and hymn poet († 1842 )
February 29 : Gioachino Rossini , Italian composer († 1868 )
March 11 : Natale Abbadia , Italian composer and singing teacher († 1861 )
April 30 : Johann Friedrich Schwencke , German organist and composer († 1852 )
June 16 : Francis Johnson , American composer and musician († 1844 )
0September 5 : Friedrich Matthias Theodor Friese , German organist and organ builder († 1863 )
0September 8 : Joseph Netherclift , English composer and lithographer († 1863 )
0October 3 : Cipriani Potter , British composer, pianist and music teacher († 1871 )
October 13 : Moritz Hauptmann , German composer, violinist and music theorist († 1868 )
October 11 or November : Gaetano Guadagni , Italian opera singer (old castrato) and composer (* 1728 )
October 20 : Anton Bernhard Fürstenau , German flautist and composer († 1852 )

Exact date of birth unknown

Matteo Carcassi , Italian guitarist and composer († 1853 )

Died

January 10 : Jean-Louis Laruette , French composer and singer (* 1731 )
February 29 : Johann Andreas Stein , German organ and piano builder (* 1728 )
May 12 : Charles-Simon Favart , French opera and comedy poet (* 1710 )
June 10 : Michel-Paul-Guy de Chabanon , French violinist, composer, music theorist, author, translator and member of the Académie française (* 1730 )
June 30th : Antonio Rosetti , German composer (* 1750 )
July 6th : Giovanni Battista Casali , Italian composer and conductor. (* around 1715 )
0December 1 : Ernst Wilhelm Wolf , German concertmaster and composer (* 1735 )
December 15 : Joseph Martin Kraus , German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1756 )
December 18 : Johann van Beethoven , German singer (tenor) and the father of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven (* around 1740 )

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