March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
July 16 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber.
September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Cora och Alonzo.
William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.
Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)
Luigi Boccherini
Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
Symphony in E flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
Symphony in E flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in G, K. 387
Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner"
Johannes Matthias Sperger - String Symphony in C
Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, G 44
Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia
January 29 – Daniel Auber, composer
April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer
July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer
September 26 – Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, violinist
January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
July 15 - Robert Wainwright, composer
August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
September 16 – Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
October – John Parry, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
date unknown – Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)
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