Music year 1798

Music year 1798

Events

Ludwig van Beethoven : Piano Sonata No. 5 in C minor, Op. 10 No. 1; Piano Sonata No. 6 in F major, Op. 10 No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3; Piano Trio, Op. 11 in B flat major, Op. 11 (completed in 1797, published in 1798); String Trio No. 2 in G major op. 9.1; String Trio No. 3 in D major, Op. 9.2; String Trio No. 4 in c-Mol op. 9.3; Violin Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 No. 1; Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 12 No. 2; Violin Sonata No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 12 No. 3
Johann Ladislaus Dussek : military concert ; Piano Concerto B op. 40 c153; Concerto for piano / harp and orchestra F c158 (around 1798); Sonata for piano and violin C op.36 c154
Anton Reicha : Variations for 2 flutes , op. 20; 3 romances for 2 flutes , op. 21; Trio for 3 flutes in D , op.26
Andreas Romberg : Violin Concerto XI in G major, SteR 52; Canon “Chi vuol aver felice il core” for soprano, alto and tenor , SteR 354

15th January : World premiere of the opera (Un) Avviso ai maritati by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice, (San Samuele)

January 24 : Premiere of the opera Alexis ou L'erreur d'un bon père by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris, (Théâtre Feydeau)

February 14th : World premiere of the opera Lleichen e Lidia by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice, (La Fenice)

April 13 : World premiere of the opera Adriano in Siria by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice, (San Benedetto) based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio that has been set to music many times

29 / 30 April : The oratorio The Creation of Joseph Haydn has its world premiere under the composer's direction at the Schwarzenberg Palace at Neuer Markt in Vienna private audience.

May 10 : World premiere of the opera Zoraïme et Zulnar by François-Adrien Boieldieu in Paris, (Opéra-Comique)

June 12th : First performance of the opera The Magic Flute, part two. The labyrinth by Emanuel Schikaneder (libretto) and Peter von Winter (music) in the Freihaustheater Vienna . The work cannot build on the success of the first part of The Magic Flute from 1791.

July 6 : World premiere of the opera Die Geisterinsel by Johann Friedrich Reichardt at the Hofoper Berlin

July 25 : World premiere of the opera L'Hôtellerie portugaise by Luigi Cherubini at the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris

August 5th : World premiere of the opera Le Rendez-vous supposé ou Le Souper de famille by Henri Montan Berton at the Opéra-Comique in Paris

5th September : World premiere of the opera La Dot de Suzette by François-Adrien Boieldieu in Paris, (Opéra-Comique)

October 15 : Premiere of the opera Léon ou Le Château de Monténéro by Nicolas Dalayrac in Paris, (Opéra-Comique)

October 18 : premiere of the opera Che originali! by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice, (San Benedetto)

September 26th : World premiere of the opera I sposi burlati by Felice Alessandri in Mantua. The work is lost.

December 27 : Simultaneous premiere of the operas Amor ingegnoso and L'ubbidienza per astuzia by Johann Simon Mayr in Venice, (San Benedetto)

Other works

Giovanni Paisiello : L'inganno felice (Opera)
Joseph Haydn : Missa in angustiis ( "Mass in distress" ; also Nelson Mass ), Hob. XXII: 11
Carl Maria von Weber : The power of love and wine (opera, early work) lost
Étienne-Nicolas Méhul : Ariodant (opera)
Domenico Cimarosa : Two operas (1) L'apprensivo raggirato ; (2) Il secreto
Franz Danzi : The Midnight Hour (comic opera)
Giuseppe Sarti : Andromeda (Opera) premiered in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg
Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli : Three Operas (1) Ines de Castro ; (2) Carolina e Mexicow ; (3) Meleagro
Johann Gottlieb Naumann : I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore (oratorio)
Joseph Weigl : The village in the mountains , (play with singing in two acts); L'accademia del maestro Cisolfaut , (Opera in two acts)
Louis Emmanuel Jadin : Two operas (1) Candos ou Les Sauvages du Canada ; (2) La Paix ou Le Triomphe de l'humanité
Johann Baptist Henneberg : The Hunter's Girl (Opera)
Vicente Martín y Soler : La festa del villaggio (Opera) premiered in the Hermitage Theater, Saint Petersburg
Peter von Winter : The Storm (Opera)

0January 2 : Désiré-Alexandre Batton , French composer († 1855 )
January 31 : Carl Gottlieb Reissiger , German composer and court conductor in Dresden († 1859 )
0February 3 : Engelbert Aigner , Austrian composer († 1866 )
April 18 : Antonio Rolla , Italian violin virtuoso († 1837 )
May 28 : Josef Dessauer , Austrian composer († 1876 )
0October 7th : Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume , French violin maker († 1875 )
October 24 : Wilhelm Amandus Auberlen , Württemberg teacher, musician and composer († 1874 )
October 28 : Henri Bertini , French pianist and composer. († 1876 )
November 16 : Therese Grob , Austrian singer and first love of the composer Franz Schubert († 1875 )

04th January : Giuseppe Giordani , Italian classical composer, (* 1751 )
January 20 : Christian Cannabich , German violinist, conductor and composer (* 1731 )
January 25 : Anselm Viola i Valentí , Catalan music teacher and composer (* 1738 )
January 26 : Christian Gottlob Neefe , German composer, organist, conductor and musicologist (* 1748 )
February 27 : Johann Julius Hummel , German music publisher (* 1728 )
July 15 : Gaetano Pugnani , Italian violinist and composer (* 1731 )
July 19 : Johann Gottfried Malleck , Viennese organ builder (* 1733 )
November 30th : Johann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann , German composer (* 1766 )
December 16 : Gaetano Brunetti , Italian composer, violinist and conductor. (* 1744 )

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