1789 In Music

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Berlin.
• Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
• Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
• Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Thtre 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 Salieris plots "which, however, have completely failed".
• Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.

Classical Music

• Opus 39 by Ludwig van Beethoven: Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano.
• Haydn's Symphony no 92 in G Major, "Oxford"
• The Captivity of Judah (oratorio) by William Crotch
• Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major by Leopold Anton Kozeluch

Opera

• "Cos fan tutte" composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• "I Due Baroni" by Domenico Cimarosa
• "Il Pastor fido" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• "La Cifra" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• "Raoul Barbe-Bleue" by Andr Grtry

Births

• January 30 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
• February 1 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
• February 8 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
• February 15 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
• June 27 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
• September 1 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
• October 18 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
• October 24 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
• October 26 - Joseph Mayseder
• October 28 - Johann Schneider, composer
• November 13 - Martin de Ron, composer
• December 8 - John Fawcett, composer
• December 14 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer

Deaths

• 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
• May 10 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
• June 7 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva
• June 14 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
• July 4 - Claudio M. da Costa, conductor
• July 15 - Jacques Duphly
• October 24 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer

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