Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.
The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.
1780–1782 Emanuel Bach revises his Magnificat Wq 215 (H 772) (Hamburg version).
Luigi Boccherini – Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Job (oratorio)
Domenico Cimarosa – Le donne rivali
Franz Danzi – Cleopatra
André Grétry – Aucassin et Nicolette
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide (unfinished)
Giovanni Paisiello – Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Niccolò Piccinni – Atys
Bernardo Porta – La Principessa d'Amalfi
January 14 – François-Joseph dizi
February 8 – Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
March 10 – Juan José Landaeta, composer
May 22 – Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
May 28 – Joseph Frohlich, composer
June 18 – Michael Henkel, composer
July 25 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
November 2 – Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu, soprano
November 3 – Victor Dourlen, composer
November 16 – Robert Archibald Smith, composer
November 22 – Conradin Kreutzer
January 4 – Hedvig Wigert, opera singer (b. 1748)
January 10 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1697)
February 1 – Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (b. 1713)
April 21 – Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
August 19 – Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
September 6 – George Alexander Stevens, songwriter (b. 1710)
December 14 – Ignatius Sancho, composer and actor (b. c. 1729)
date unknown – Martin Nürenbach, dancer
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