1786 in music
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Events
- January 21 – Luigi Boccherini becomes an official composer to Prince Frederick William of Prussia.[1]
- February 7 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, presents a festival at Schönbrunn Palace, at which new compositions by both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri are performed.[1]
- April 28 – Leopold Mozart writes to his daughter, Maria Anna Mozart, predicting failure for his son's latest opera, The Marriage of Figaro.[1] In fact its premiere on May 1 under the composer's baton at the Burgtheater in Vienna is a success with encores demanded.[2] The libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte.
- October 18 – Leopold Mozart is given a blood test on the same day that his daughter-in-law Constanze Mozart gives birth to her third child, Johann Thomas Leopold; the baby dies a month later, Leopold the following year.[1]
- November 7 – America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
- November 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf unsuccessfully seeks employment with the newly enthroned King Frederick William II of Prussia.[1]
- In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
- In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
- Georg Joseph Vogler is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of Sweden.
Publications
- Johann Wilhelm Hässler – 6 Leichte Sonaten, Theil 1
- Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 20
- Maria Theresia von Paradis – Zwölf Lieder auf ihrer Reise in Musik gesetzt, composed on tour over the previous two years
- Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart – Musicalische Rhapsodien
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Funeral music for A. Schulte[1]
- Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach – Ino, BR G 48
- Cecilia Maria Barthélemon
- Op. 1: Three Sonatas for the Piano-Forte, or Harpsichord, the Second with an Accompaniment for the Violin
- 6 English and Italian Songs, Op.2
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
- Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
- Giobbe (oratorio)
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Corona Schröter – 25 Lieder
Opera
- Gioacchino Albertini – Virginia
- Bonifazio Asioli – Le nozze in villa
- Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky – Le Faucon
- Nicolas Dalayrac – Nina
- François-Joseph Gossec – Rosine, ou L’épouse abandonnée
- André Grétry – Amphitryon
- Lucille Grétry – Le mariage d’Antonio
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)
- Antonio Salieri
- Les Horaces
- Prima la musica e poi le parole
- Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo
Published popular music
- First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection
Methods and theory writings
- Francesco Azopardi – Il musico prattico
- Henry Beck – Flute Book
- Antonio D. R. Borghese – L’art musical ramené à ses vrais principes
- João Ribeiro de Almeida Campos – Elementos de Musica
- Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Legende einiger Musikheiligen
- James Nares – A Concise and Easy Treatise on Singing, with a Set of English Duets for Beginners
- Joseph Riepel – Baßschlüssel
- Ignaz Schweigl – Grundlehre der Violin
Births
- January 3 – Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
- June 21 – Charles Edward Horn, singer and composer (died 1849)
- September 11 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer (died 1832)
- September 27 – José Mariano Elízaga, composer (died 1842)
- November 10 – Carl Eberwein, violinist and composer (died 1868)
- November 18
- Carl Maria von Weber, composer (or December 18)
- Sir Henry Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
- December 20 – Pietro Raimondi, composer
- date unknown
- Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, composer (died 1841)
- Elena Pucić-Sorkočević, composer (died 1865)
Deaths
- January 4 – Moses Mendelssohn, philosopher and grandfather of composers Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn (born 1729)
- January 14 – Michael Arne, composer (born c.1740)
- February 16 – Johann Georg Schürer, composer (born 1720)
- March 7 – Frantisek Benda, composer (born 1709)
- March 21 – Johann Gottlieb Preller, cantor and composer (born 1727)
- April 13 – Jan Tomáš Kuzník, composer and music teacher (born 1716)
- May 19 – John Stanley, composer (born 1712)
- June 2 – Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, composer (born 1706)
- July – Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (born 1745)
- July 29 – Franz Asplmayr, composer (born 1728)
- August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer (born 1712)
- September 6 – Karl von Ordóñez, composer (born 1734)
- September 18 – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, musical instrument maker (born 1711)
- October 6 – Antonio Sacchini, composer (born 1730)
References
- MusicAndHistory:1786 Archived 2013-06-25 at Archive.today Accessed 21 April 2013
- Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 22. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0.
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