1779 in music
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Events
- February 16 – Composer William Boyce is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal.[1]
- April – The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.
- December 26 – Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera Armida.
- The opera house at Eszterháza burns down.
- Mezzo-soprano Luigia Polzelli and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of Joseph Haydn.
Opera
- Johann Christian Bach – Amadis de Gaule
- Domenico Cimarosa
- L'infedeltà fedele
- L'italiana in Londra
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Tauride
- André Ernest Modeste Grétry – L'amant jaloux
- Joseph Haydn – L'isola disabitata
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide
- Giovanni Paisiello – Demetrio, R.1.59
- Antonio Salieri – Il Talismano
Classical music
- Anna Amalia – Organ Trio in C major
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.55
- Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Sonates en Quatuor, Op. 3 (Paris)
- William Boyce – 10 Voluntaries for the Organ
- Muzio Clementi
- 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
- 3 Piano Duets and 3 Sonatas, Op. 3
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie Concertante du Ballet de Mirza, B.90
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 70 in D major
- Symphony No. 71 in B-flat major, Hob.I:71
- Michael Haydn – Symphony No.23 in D major, MH 287, P.43
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
- Concerto in E-flat major for Two Pianos
- Serenade in D major, "Posthorn" K.320
- Church Sonata in C major, K.329/317a
- Johann Heinrich Rolle – Thirza und ihre Söhne (oratorio)
Methods and theory writings
- Anton Bemitzrieder – Nouvel essai sur l'harmonie
- François Vincent Corbelin – Méthode de Harpe
- Franz Paul Rigler – Anleitung zum Klavier
- Francisco Inácio Solano – Novo tratado de musica metrica, e rythmica
- Francesco Antonio Vallotti – Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the scientific theory and practice of modern music)
Births
- January 8 – John White, composer
- January 15 – Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
- February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer (died 1818)
- February 5 – François van Campenhout, singer and composer (d. 1848)
- February 22 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer (d. 1813)
- February 23 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (d. 1867)
- March 1 – Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer (d. 1839)
- March 13 – Oliver Shaw, composer (d. 1848)
- April 11 – Louise Reichardt, German composer (died 1826)
- April 21 – William Knyvett, composer
- May 28 – Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
- August 1 – Francis Scott Key, songwriter
- September 10 – Louis Alexandre Piccinni
- October 15 – Johan Olof Wallin, songwriting bishop
Deaths
- February 7 – William Boyce, composer
- April 6 – Tommaso Traetta, composer
- April 7 – Martha Ray, singer
- December 5 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist (born 1709)
- December 28 – Gennaro Manna, composer
- date unknown – Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist (born 1697)
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References
- "William Boyce", Eighteenth Century English Music (rslade.co.uk)
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