August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello’s opera Il mondo della luna.
John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England.
Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 ('Kurfuerstensonaten') in E-flat, F, and D
Joseph Haydn – Cello Concerto in D
Michael Haydn – Symphony in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Great Mass in C minor
Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425
Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
Samuel Wesley – Magnificat
Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata
Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali
André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire
William Shield – The Poor Soldier
"I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns
January 12 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847)
January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
January 26 – Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856)
February 15 – Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
March 8 – Gottfied Wilhelm Fink
March 26 – Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
May 10 – Niccola Benvenuti, composer
May 22 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
June 29 – August Alexander Klengel, pianist, organist and composer
October 13 – Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
December 14 – Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
December 28 – Robert Gallenberg, composer
January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
January 14 – Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (b. 1682)
January 31 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (b. 1710)
February 10 – James Nares, composer (b. 1715)
March 23 – Gaspard Fritz, composer
April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (b. 1711)
July 27 – Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (b. 1721)
November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter (b. 1709)
December 20 – Antonio Soler, composer (b. 1729)
December 23 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (b. 1699)
date unknown – Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (b. 1741)
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