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Overview of the events of 1779 in music
Overview of the events of 1779 in music
Events
Opera
Classical music
- Anna Amalia – Organ Trio in C major
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.55
- Rondo in E major, Wq. 57, H.265
- Rondo in F major, Wq. 57, H.266
- Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Sonates en Quatuor, Op. 3 (Paris)
- William Billings – Music in Miniature
- 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
- Michael Haydn – Symphony No.23 in D major, MH 287, P.43
- Johann Adam Hiller – "Lieder und Arien aus Sophiens Reise", compilation including pieces from Mozart.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Johann Heinrich Rolle – Thirza und ihre Söhne (oratorio)
- Johann Adolph Hasse - Mass in E-flat major
- Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges – 2 Symphonies, Op.11
- Antonio Salieri – Organ Concerto in C major
- William Shrubsole – "Miles's Lane (All Hail The Power of Jesus' Name)", in The Gospel Magazine and Moral Miscellany, Vol.6.
- Maria Carolina Wolf – "Die Rose"
- Carl Friedrich Zelter – Viola Concerto in E-flat major
Methods and theory writings
Births
- January 8 – John White, organist and composer
- January 15 – Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
- February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer (died 1818)
- February 2 – Georg Heinrich Lux, organist and composer (died 1861)
- February 5 – François van Campenhout, singer and composer (d. 1848)
- February 17 – Wilhelm Friedrich Riem, composer (died 1857)
- February 22 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer (d. 1813)
- February 23 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (d. 1867)
- February 28 – Henry Darondeau, composer (died 1865)
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
- June 23 – Johann Baptist Schiedermayr, composer (died 1840)
- July 20 – Ignaz Schuster, bass and composer (died 1835)
- August 1 – Francis Scott Key, songwriter (died 1843)[3]
- September 8 – Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer (died 1853)
- September 10 – Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
- October 15
- November 14 – Adam Oehlenschläger poet and lyricist (died 1850)
- date unknown
Deaths
- January 20 – David Garrick, librettist (born 1717)
- February 7 – William Boyce, composer, 69[4]
- February 12 – Hinrich Philip Johnsen, composer (born 1717)
- April 6 – Tommaso Traetta, composer, 52[5]
- April 7 – Martha Ray, singer, 32/33 (murdered)[6]
- June 6 – Joseph Inchbald, actor and singer, 44[7]
- November 27 – Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist, 82[8]
- December 5 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist, 70[9]
- December 28 – Gennaro Manna, composer, 64[10]
- December -
Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76
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- unknown date – Edward Jones, Welsh composer, 49/50[12]
References
- ^ "William Boyce", Eighteenth Century English Music (rslade.co.uk)
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- ^ Penton, Kemberly (September 14, 2016). "Remembering Francis Scott Key: The Man Behind America's National Anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner'". Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
- ^ The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage. 1806. p. 21.
- ^ Joseph Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. E. Moxon, Son, and Company. p. 541.
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- ^ "Premiere Suite - Josse Boutmy". repertoire-explorer. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
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- ^ Rochus Freiherr von Liliencron; Franz X. von Wegele; Anton Bettelheim (1884). Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ...: Auf Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
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