[edit] Events

• Luigi Boccherini becomes court composer in Berlin.
• 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.
• Scots Musical Museum published

[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 Haydn
  • The Seven Last Words of Christ
  • Symphony No. 89 in F major
• Joseph Martin Kraus - Symphony in E minor

[edit] Opera

• 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)

[edit] Births

• January 8 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer
• February 13 - James P. Carrell, composer
• August 15 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
• September 1 - John Bake, composer
• October 30 - Karl Guhr, composer
• November 17 - Michele Carafa, composer
• November 25 - Franz Xaver Gruber, organist and composer of "Silent Night"
• November 27 - Christian Rummel
• December 1 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer

[edit] Deaths

• May 13 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer
• May 28 - Leopold Mozart, violinist, music teacher and composer (b. 1719)
• June 20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1723)
• August 5 - François Francoeur, violinist and composer (b. 1698)
• November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (b. 1714)
• November 23 - Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (b. 1735)
• December 9 - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer, violinist and lutenist (b. 1720)
• date unknown - Mary Linley, singer (b. 1758)