1789 in music

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Events

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.

Ludwig van Beethoven – Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
William Hamilton Bird – The Oriental Miscellany
William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quintet in G major, Kr.190
Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonatas No. 4–6, Op. 10
John Gunn – 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello
Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
- Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
Leopold Anton Kozeluch – Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Clarinet Quintet in A
- Un moto di gioia mi sento, K.579
Vasilj Alekseevič Paškevič – Muzyka operyi Komitscheskoi Fewej
Ignaz Pleyel
- String Quintet in F major, B.285
- 3 Flute Quartets, B.381–383
- 6 Violin Duos, B.513–518
Karl Leopold Röllig – Kleine Tonstücke für die Glasharmonika
Daniel Gottlob Türk – Klaviersonaten, größtenteils für Kenner
Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.16 in E minor

Domenico Cimarosa – I Due Baroni
André Grétry – Raoul Barbe-Bleue
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne – Nephté
Giovanni Paisiello – Nina
Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Brenno; Claudine von Villa Bella
Antonio Salieri – Il Pastor fido; La Cifra; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
Stephen Storace – The Haunted Tower
Paul Wranitzky – Oberon, König der Elfen

André Grétry – Mémoires, ou essai sur la musique
John Gunn – The Theory and Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
Manuel da Paixão Ribeiro – Nova arte de viola
Luigi Antonio Sabbatini – Elementi teorici della musica
Daniel Gottlob Türk
- Klavierscule
- Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten

January 1 – Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
January 2 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
January 20 – Johann Christoph Oley, composer
February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
May 10 – Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
May 12 – Robert Bremner, music collector and publisher (born 1713)
June 7 – Václav Jan Kopřiva (b. 1708)
June 14 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
July 4 – Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poet and conductor (b. 1729)
July 15 – Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
September 11 – Luka Sorkočević, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
September 12 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 1709)
October 24 – Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
date unknown
- Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)
- Andreas Lidl, British composer (born c. 1740)

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