September 24 - The Bolshoi Theatre company hosts its first annual opera season, with the opening of the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St Petersburg.
December 26 - Giovanni Paisiello's opera Il finto spettro, is premièred in Mannheim. Paisiello has already been invited to the court of Catherine the Great.
Charles Burney publishes his History of Music
Court Theatre in Stockholm built by King Gustav III of Sweden
Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Topladyfat cats
Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
Tommaso Traetta – Germondo
François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250
January 24 – Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, author and composer
February 18 – John Parry, composer
February 21 – Vincenzo Lavigna, composer
April 8 – Thaddaus Weigl, composer
May 10 – George Thomas Smart, composer
May 12 – Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
May 13 – Charles Ots and Rodrigo Ferreira da Costa, composers
June 1 – John George Schetky, composer
August 4 – Wenzel Sedlak, composer
August 15 – Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
August 16 – Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
August 19 – Johan Peter Strömberg, dancer and theatre director
December 6 – Paul Friedrich Struck, composer
February 13 – Luis Misón, composer, 50
April 22 – Johann Adolph Scheibe, music theorist, 67
May 6 – James Kent, composer, 76
June 10 – Leopold Widhalm, luthier, 53
November 29 - Zanetta Farussi, opera singer, 69
date unknown
Thomas Capell, organist (date of birth unknown)
Josep Carcoler, composer, 78
Aaron Williams, composer, 45.
probable - Matteo Capranica, composer
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