1792 in music
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Events
- January 26 – Harriet Wainwright's opera Comala[1] is performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London. Charles Burney and Joseph Haydn are in the audience and praise the work.[2]
- Gustavus III of Sweden.
- May 16 – La Fenice in Venice is inaugurated with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera I giuochi d'Agrigento.
- clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken[3] in the Assembly Rooms, Belfast, and Edward Buntingis one of three transcribers of the music.
Bands disbanded
- The Academy of Ancient Music (formed 1726)[4]
Popular Music
- "Ye brave sons of Britain" by William Parsons
- "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Classical music
- Claude Balbastre – Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ça-ira
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- "An Laura", for voice and piano, WoO 112
- "An Minna", for voice and piano, WoO 115
- Rondino for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major, WoO 25
- Duo for 2 Flutes, WoO 26
- Six Variations on a Swiss song for piano or harp, WoO 64
- Trinklied, WoO 109
- Variations on an original theme in E♭ major for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 44
- Octet for winds in E♭ major, Op. 103
- Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Trios, Op. 28
- Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Concerto No.4, Op. 17
- Josef Gelinek – 6 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'
- Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 94
- Symphony No. 97
- Symphony No. 98
- 12 Minuets, Hob.IX:11
- 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no. 1
- Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphonie funebre in C minor
- Friedrich Wilhelm Pannenberg – Zwölf Sleiver und zwey Quadrille
- Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
- Symphony in D major, StWV 128
- Symphony in B-flat major, StWV 129
- 3 Violin Sonatas, StWV 198
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
Methods and theory writings
- John Wall Callcott – An Explanation of the Notes, Marks, Words, etc. Used in Music
- Johann Adam Hiller
- Anweisung zum Violinspielen
- Kurze und erleichterte Anweisung zum Singen
- Christian Kalkbrenner – Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte der Tonkunst
- Andrew Law – The Art of Singing
Births
- March 11 – Natale Abbadia, composer (died 1861)
- August 28 – Karolina Bock, singer, actress, dancer, drama teacher
- October 2 – Cipriani Potter, pianist and composer (died 1871)
- October 13 – Moritz Hauptmann, writer and composer (died 1868)
Deaths
- February 29 – Johann Andreas Stein, maker of keyboard instruments (born 1728)
- June 28 – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (born 1754)[6]
- June 30 – Antonio Rosetti, double bass player and composer (born c. 1750)
- October 11 – Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer (born 1728)[7]
- November 29 (or 30) – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (b. 1735)
- December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer ("the Swedish Mozart") (born 1756)[8]
- December 18 – Johann van Beethoven, singer, father of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1740)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Casali, choir-master and choral composer (b. 1715)
- Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori, composer of Hindustani classical music (b. 1742)
References
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- OCLC 974642215.
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- ISBN 9780198662129.
- ^ Henry Sutherland Edwards (1894). Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1861, and His Successors. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. p. 3-4.
- ^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1688.
- ISBN 978-0-19-936520-3.
- ISBN 978-0-9601054-8-9.