1756 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
- Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
- Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
- Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1757 |
///O///O///O///
Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth (oratorio)
Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth (oratorio)
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Johann Friedrich Fasch – Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
- Leopold Mozart – Concerto for Trombone in G major
[edit]
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann — Merope
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi — Lo solachianello imbroglione
- Niccolò Jommelli — Temistocle
- Giuseppe Scarlatti — La clemenza di Tito
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1758 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: La fausse esclave
Gluck: La fausse esclave
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Issipile
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'île de Merlin
[edit]
Classical music
- Michael Haydn – Symphony No. 1 in C major
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1759 |
///O///O///O///
[edit]
Opera
- Johann Ernst Eberlin – Demofoonte (lost)
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Gli uccellatori
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – L'Arbre enchantée; Cythère Assiégée
- Tommaso Traetta – Ippolito ed Aricia
[edit]
Classical music
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Pieces for Musical Clock
- François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.4
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 1 in D Major
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1760 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
- Johann Christian Bach – Artaserse
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Alcide al Bivio
- Vincenzo Manfredini – Semiramide
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Surprises de l'amour
[edit]
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – String Quartet in D
- William Boyce – Eight Symphonies
- François Joseph Gossec – Grande Messe des Morts
- Michael Haydn – Concerto for Violin in B flat major
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1761 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Le cadi dupé
Gluck: Le cadi dupé
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Catone in Utica
- Baldassare Galuppi – Le Tre Amante Ridicoli
[edit]
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Judith (oratorio)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Don Juan (ballet)
- François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, op.5
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 6 ("Le matin"), Symphony No. 7 ("Le midi") and Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir")
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in C major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Minuet for Harpsichord
[edit]
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1762 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Orfeo ed Eurydice
Gluck: Orfeo ed Eurydice
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 9
- Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Christmas Oratorio
[edit]
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
- Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Il tesoro insidiato
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1763 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
- Joseph Haydn – Acide
- Vincenzo Manfredini – Carlo Magno
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphonies nos. 12 and 13
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1764 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: La rencontre imprevu
Gluck: La rencontre imprevu
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
- Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
- Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
[edit]
Opera
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
- Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
- Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
- Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1765 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Telemaco
Gluck: Telemaco
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Popular music
- James Hook – "I wish you all good night" (song)
[edit]
Opera
-
- Daphne and Amintor
- The Summer's Tale
- Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alexandre; Semiramis
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
- Antonio Sacchini – Creso
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 28, Cello Concerto No. 1
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no 1
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1766 |
///O///O///O///
Haydn: la canterina
Haydn: la canterina
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Egidio Romualdo Duni – La clochette
- Joseph Haydn – La Canterina (libretto by an unknown, based on material by Carlo Goldoni)
- Johann Adam Hiller – Der lustige Schuster
[edit]
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Pieces (40) for Keyboard, Wq 117: no 2, Solfeggio in C minor, H 220
- Capel Bond – Six Concertos in Seven Parts
- Joseph Haydn – Great Mass in E flat
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in B flat major
- Niccolò Jommelli – Missa Solemne
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1767 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
Mozart: Apollo and Hyacinthus
Mozart: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots
Mozart: Apollo and Hyacinthus
O///O///O///O
Gluck: Alceste
Gluck: Alceste
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach succeeds his godfather, Telemann, as director of church music in Hamburg.
- Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family travel to Vienna, stopping at the Abbey of Melk.
[edit]
Popular music
- James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.
[edit]
Opera
- Felice Alessandri – Ezio
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
- Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
[edit]
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 35
- Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C
- Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1768 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne
Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne
O///O///O///O
Haydn: Lo speziale
Haydn: Lo speziale
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Popular music
- "The Liberty Song", with words by John Dickinson – considered the first American patriotic song. He used the music to the traditional British song, Hearts of Oak.
[edit]
Opera
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Bastien und Bastienne (his first published opera)
- Joseph Haydn – Lo speziale
- Niccolò Jommelli – Fetonte
- Giovanni Paisiello – Olimpia
- Antonio Zingarelli – I quattro pazzi
[edit]
Classical music
- Applausus – Joseph Haydn
- Symphonies no 7 and 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Cello Concerto in D Major – Luigi Boccherini
- Sonata for Harpsichord in G major – Muzio Clementi
[edit]
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1769 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: La Finta Semplice
Mozart: La Finta Semplice
O///O///O///O
Gluck: Le feste d'Apollo
Gluck: Le feste d'Apollo
///O///O///O///
[edit]
Opera
[edit]
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
- François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Te Deum in C
- Johann Baptist Vanhal – Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1770 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Classical music
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no 11
- Pietro Nardini – Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – Armida
- Gennaro Astarita – Il re alla caccia
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Paride ed Elena
- Johann Adolf Hasse – Piramo e Tisbe
- Joseph Haydn – Le Pescatrici
- Antonio Sacchini – Calliroe
[edit]
Published popular music
- William Billings – The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song Chester.
[edit]
Salieri: Le donne letterate
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Paride e Elena
Gluck: Paride e Elena
O///O///O///O
Haydn: Le pescatrici
Haydn: Le pescatrici
///O///O///O///
1771 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Ascanio in Alba
Mozart: Ascanio in Alba
O///O///O///O
Salieri: Armida
Salieri: Armida
///O///O///O///
[edit]
Classical music
-
- String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275) (with the famous minuet)
- Symphony in D major, Op. 12 no 1/G 503
- Symphony in E flat major, Op. 12 no 2/G 504
- Symphony in C major, Op. 12 no 3/G 505
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphonies no 12, 13 and 14
- Josef Mysliveček – Veni sponsa Christi
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – Quinto Fabio; Lucio Papirio; I visionari
- André Grétry – Zémire et Azor
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Ruggiero
- Giovanni Paisiello – Annibale in Torino
- Antonio Salieri – Armida
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1772 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Il Sogno di Scipione
Mozart: Lucio Silla
Mozart: Il Sogno di Scipione
Mozart: Lucio Silla
O///O///O///O
Salieri: La fiera di Venezia
Salieri: La fiera di Venezia
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – Alessandro nelle Indie
- Johann Christian Bach – Endimione; Temistocle
[edit]
Classical music
-
- Symphonies 44 "Trauer" and 45 "Farewell"
- String Quartets, Op. 20
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimenti K. 136-138 "Salzburg Symphonies"
- Andrea Luchesi – 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op.1
- Giovanni Paisiello – Requiem for Gennara di Borbone
[edit]
Popular music
- Rev. William Leeves & Lady Anne Barnard – "Auld Robin Gray"
[edit]
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1773 |
///O///O///O///
Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa
Haydn: L'infedeltà delusa
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – Demofoonte
- Domenico Cimarosa – La finta parigina
- Joseph Haydn – L'infedeltà delusa; Philemon und Baucis
- Andrea Luchesi – L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo Goldoni)
- Anton Schweitzer – Alceste (libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland)
[edit]
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Harp in C major
- Samuel Arnold – The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Six String Quintets
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1774 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi – La finta giardiniera; Olimpiade
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigenie en Aulide
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Great Organ Mass
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 29 in A
- Carl Stamitz – Concerto for Viola no 1 in D major
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1775 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: La finta giardiniera
Mozart: Il re pastore
Mozart: La finta giardiniera
Mozart: Il re pastore
O///O///O///O
Gluck: L'arbre enchanté
Gluck: L'arbre enchanté
///O///O///O///
Haydn: L'incontro improviso
Haydn: L'incontro improviso
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Concerto for Oboe in D major
- Joseph Martin Kraus – Requiem
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Violin Concertos 3, 4 & 5
[edit]
Opera
- Johann André – Erwin und Elmire
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Demofoonte
///O///O///O///
1776 |
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Popular music
- Psalms and Hymns for Public and Private Worship by Augustus Montague Topladyfat cats
[edit]
Opera
- Gaetano Marinelli – Il Barone di Sardafritta
- Ignaz Pleyel – Die Fee Urgele
- Antonio Tozzi – Le Due Gemelli
- Tommaso Traetta – Germondo
[edit]
Classical music
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie de chasse; Symphonie en ré
- James Hook – The Ascension (oratorio)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Haffner Serenade, K.250
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1777 |
///O///O///O///
Gluck: Armide
Gluck: Armide
O///O///O///O
Haydn: Il mondo della luna
Haydn: Il mondo della luna
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Opera
- Agostino Accorimboni – Nitteti
- Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Armide
- Joseph Haydn – Il mondo della luna
[edit]
Classical music
- Michael Haydn – Missa S Hieronymi
- Gottfried August Homilius – Christmas Oratorio
- Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 ("Jeunehomme")
- Josef Mysliveček – Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio)
- Johann Baptist Vanhal – Violin Concerto in B flat
[edit]
Popular Music
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1778 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Europa riconosciuta
Salieri: La scuola de' gelosi
Salieri: Europa riconosciuta
Salieri: La scuola de' gelosi
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Classical music
- François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments
- Joseph Haydn – Little Organ Mass
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"
[edit]
Opera
- Carl Christian Agthe – Martin Velten
- Johann Christian Bach – La Clemenza di Scipione
- Anton Bachschmidt – Antigono
- Pierre Joseph Candeille – Les Deux comtesses
- Christian Cannabich – Azakia
- Charles Dibdin – The Shepherdess of the Alps
- Niccola Piccinni – Roland
- Antonio Salieri – La scuola de´ gelosi; L´Europa riconosciuta (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)
[edit]
Published popular music
- The Singing Master's Assistant – William Billings, including "Africa"
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1779 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt
Mozart: Thamos, King of Egypt
O///O///O///O
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Gluck: Echo e Narcisse
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Gluck: Echo e Narcisse
///O///O///O///
Haydn: La vera constanza
Haydn: L'isola disabitata
Haydn: La vera constanza
Haydn: L'isola disabitata
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Johann Christian Bach – Amadis de Gaule
- Domenico Cimarosa – L'infedeltà fedele
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Tauride
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide
[edit]
Classical music
///O///O///O///
1780 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Zaïde
Mozart: Zaïde
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Luigi Boccherini – Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Job (oratorio)
[edit]
Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa – Le donne rivali
- Franz Danzi – Cleopatra
- André Grétry – Aucassin et Nicolette
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide (unfinished)
- Giovanni Paisiello – Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Niccolò Piccinni – Atys
- Bernardo Porta – La Principessa d'Amalfi
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1781 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Idomeneo
Mozart: Idomeneo
O///O///O///O
Salieri: Der Rauchfangkehrer
Salieri: Der Rauchfangkehrer
///O///O///O///
Haydn: La fedeltà premiata
Haydn: La fedeltà premiata
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 33
- Giovanni Paisiello – Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major
- Samuel Wesley – Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major
[edit]
Opera
- Miles Peter Andrews & Samuel Arnold – The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
- Antonio Calegari – Deucalione e Pirra
- Domenico Cimarosa – Giannina e Bernardone
- Elizabeth Craven et al. – The Silver Tankard
- Nicolas Dalayrac – Le Chevalier à la mode
- Marc-Antoine Désaugiers – Les Deux sylphes
- Joseph Haydn – La fedeltà premiata
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Idomeneo
- Niccolò Piccinni – Iphigenie en Tauride
- Antonio Salieri – Der Rauchfangkehrer
- Giuseppe Sarti – Giulio Sabino
- Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli – Montesuma
///O///O///O///
1782 |
///O///O///O///
Haydn: Orlando paladino
Haydn: Orlando paladino
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Published popular music
- Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)
[edit]
Classical music
-
- 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"
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, G 44
[edit]
Opera
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
- François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
- Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("Il Seraglio")
- Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1783 |
///O///O///O///
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Sonatas ('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
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
- Samuel Wesley – Magnificat
[edit]
- Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata
- Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali
- André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire
- William Shield – The Poor Soldier
[edit]
Published popular music
- "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns
[edit]
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1784 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Il ricco d'un giorno
Salieri: Les Danaïdes
Salieri: Il ricco d'un giorno
Salieri: Les Danaïdes
O///O///O///O
Haydn: Armida
Haydn: Armida
///O///O///O///
Classical music
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in B flat major; Symphony in C major
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor
[edit]
- André Grétry – Richard Coeur de Lion
- Joseph Haydn – Armida
- Thomas Linley – The Spanish Rivals
-
- Les Danaïdes
- Il ricco d'un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
- Andrea Luchesi – Ademira
- Giovanni Paisiello – Il Re Teodoro
[edit]
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1785 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: La Grotta di Trofonio
Salieri: La Grotta di Trofonio
O///O///O///O
Classical Music
- William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
- Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 83 in G minor "La poule" and 85 in B flat "La Reine"
-
- Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
- String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
- Ignace Pleyel, String Quartet
[edit]
- Gaetano Andreozzi – Giasone e Medea
- Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le Faux serment
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Artemisia
- Antonio Salieri – La Grotta di Trofonio
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1786 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Les Horaces
Salieri: Prima la musica e poi le parole
Salieri: Les Horaces
Salieri: Prima la musica e poi le parole
O///O///O///O
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
[edit]
Classical music
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")
[edit]
- Gioacchino Albertini – Virginia
- Bonifazio Asioli – Le nozze in villa
- Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky – Le Faucon
- Nicolas Dalayrac – Nina
-
- Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (first performed in Vienna, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte).
-
- Les Horaces
- Prima la musica e poi le parole
- Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo
[edit]
Published popular music
- First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection
[edit]
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1787 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Mozart: Don Giovanni
O///O///O///O
Salieri: Tarare
Salieri: Tarare
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- August 10 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's light work, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, written as a distraction from the composition of his opera Don Giovanni, is performed at an evening entertainment in Vienna.
- Ludwig van Beethoven goes to Vienna, where he meets Mozart, but his mother's death forces him to return to Bonn.
- Luigi Cherubini settles in Paris.
[edit]
Published popular music
- Robert Burns – "The Battle of Sherramuir" (to a traditional tune)
[edit]
Classical music
- Muzio Clementi – Two Symphonies
- Giuseppe Gherardeschi – Sonata for Organ "In the Guise of a Military Band..."
- Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphony in E minor
- Philip Phile – Violin Concerto (lost)
[edit]
- Antoine Ballant – Dobrodetel'nïy volshebnik
- Giuseppe Gazzaniga – Don Giovanni
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Don Giovanni (first performed in Prague in the Estates Theatre, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte)
- Antonio Salieri – Tarare (libretto by Beaumarchais)
- Vicente Martín y Soler – L'arbore di Diana
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1788 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus
Salieri: Axur, re d'Ormus
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- Antonio Salieri appointed Imperial Royal Kapellmeister by Emperor Joseph II of Austria.
- Domenico Cimarosa is invited to St Petersburg by the Empress Catherine II of Russia.
[edit]
Opera
- Thomas Carter – The Constant Maid, or Poll of Plympton
- Luigi Cherubini – Ifigenia in Aulide
- Franz Danzi – Die Mitternachtsstunde
- Giovanni Paisiello – L'Amor Contrastato
- Antonio Salieri – Axur, Re d´Ormus (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Beaumarchais); Il Talismano (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after Goldoni)
- Joseph Weigl – Il pazzo per forza
[edit]
Classical music
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphonies 39 in E flat, 40 in G minor and 41 in C
[edit]
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1789 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: La cifra
Salieri: La cifra
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
- William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
- Leopold Anton Kozeluch – Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Clarinet Quintet in A
[edit]
Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa – I Due Baroni
- André Grétry – Raoul Barbe-Bleue
- 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
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1790 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Mozart: Così fan tutte
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven meet for the first time.
- Beginnings of the Beijing Opera.
[edit]
Opera
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Der Teufel als Hydraulikus
- Étienne Méhul – Euphrosine et Corradin ou le Tyran corrigé
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Così fan tutte (at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II first produced at Vienna in 1790)
- Giovanni Paisiello – Nina (libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi)
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Cantata on the Death of Joseph II
- Johann Ladislaus Dussek – Piano Trio
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 64, "Tost"
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quartet in D
- Claus Schall – Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra in D major
[edit]
Published popular music
- James Hook – "Rosy Hannah"
[edit]
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1791 |
///O///O///O///
Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito
Mozart: Zauberflöte
Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito
Mozart: Zauberflöte
O///O///O///O
Haydn: L'anima del filosofo
Haydn: L'anima del filosofo
///O///O///O///
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- Joseph Haydn is brought to London by Johann Peter Salomon.
[edit]
Classical music
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister – String Quartet in F
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 96 in D "Miracle"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr – Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn
[edit]
Opera
- Marcello Bernardini – L'amore per incanto
- Luigi Cherubini – Lodoïska
- Étienne Méhul – Alonzo et Cora
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) first performed in Vienna (libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La clemenza di Tito first performed in Prague (Estates Theatre) (libretto by Metastasio)
- William Shield – The Woodman
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1792 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Popular Music
- "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- "The Irish Washerwoman" trad. Irish
[edit]
Classical Music
- Joseph Haydn – Surprise Symphony
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no 1
[edit]
Opera
- Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt – Telemak på Calypsos
- Domenico Cimarosa – Il Matrimonio Segreto
- Giuseppe Farinelli – I dotorato di Pulcinella
- Louis Emmanuel Jadin – Amélie de Montfort
- Etienne Méhul – Stratonice
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1793 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- September 25 – The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.
- Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11
[edit]
Popular Music
- None listed
[edit]
Classical Music
- Jan Ladislav Dussek – The Sufferings of the Queen of France
-
- String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
- Variations in F minor
- Pavel Vranicky – Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24
[edit]
Opera
- Felice Alessandri – Virginia
- Samuel Arnold – The Mountaineers
- Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa
- François-Adrien Boïeldieu – La fille coupable
- Francesco Gardi – Pirro
- Johann Baptist Henneberg – Die Waldmänner
- Étienne Méhul - Le jeune sage et le vieux fou
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1794 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- Joseph Haydn begins his second visit to London
[edit]
Classical music
- Joseph Eybler – Christmas Oratorio
[edit]
Opera
- Luigi Cherubini - Eliza
- Friedrich Heinrich Himmel – Il primo navigatore
- Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo
- Étienne Méhul - Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1795 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Palmira, regina di Persia
Salieri: Palmira, regina di Persia
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Opera
- Louis Emmanuel Jadin Le Cabaleur
- Antonio Salieri Palmyra
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Trios, Op. 1
- Hans Georg Nägeli – Freut euch des Lebens (song)
- Friedrich Witt – Horn concerto in E major
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1796 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.
[edit]
Classical Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
- Muzio Clementi – Concerto for piano in C major
- Joseph Haydn – Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War")
[edit]
Opera
- Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
- Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
- Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
- Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1797 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- February 12 – First performance of Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser (God Save Emperor Francis), an anthem to Francis II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later ofAustria, with lyrics by Lorenz Leopold Haschka and music by Joseph Haydn.
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata, Op. 7, in E-flat
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 76, "Erdödy Quartets"
- Hyacinthe Jadin – Quartet for Strings, Op. 1,
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Violin No. 22 in A minor
[edit]
Opera
- Luigi Cherubini – Médée
- Józef Elsner – Amazonki
- Étienne Méhul - Le jeune Henri
- Luigi Mosca – L'impresario burlato
[edit]
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1798 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical Music
[edit]
Published popular music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – Popular Cheshire Melodies
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1799 |
///O///O///O///
Salieri: Falstaff
Salieri: Falstaff
O///O///O///O
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata Pathetique; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 14 No. 2
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
- Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funebre
[edit]
Opera
- Étienne Méhul - Adrien, Ariodant
- Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
- Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
///O///O///O///
1800 |
///O///O///O///
O///O///O///O
[edit]
[edit]
Events
- January 16 – Luigi Cherubini's opera, Les Deux Journées ("The Water Carrier"), debuts in Paris at the Salle Feydeau.
- September 16 – François-Adrien Boïeldieu's opera, Le calife de Bagdad, opens at Paris's Salle Favart.
[edit]
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 1
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 3 (Composed; first performance 1803)
[edit]
Opera
- Luigi Cherubini - Les deux journées
- William Reeve – Paul and Virginia
No comments:
Post a Comment