1778 in music - Definition

See also: 1777 in music, other events of 1778, 1779 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Mozart's mother dies

Opera

• La scuola de´ gelosi by Antonio Salieri
• The Shepherdess of the Alps by Charles Dibdin
• Roland by Niccolò Piccinni

Classical music

• 12 Variations for Piano "La belle Françoise" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Little Organ Mass by Joseph Haydn

Published popular music

• The Singing Master's Assistant - William Billings, including "Africa"

Births

• January 5 - Fortunato Santini, composer
• January 13 - Anton Fischer, composer
• February 12 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
• February 13 (or 14) - Fernando Sor, composer
• February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
• March 8 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
• April 6 - Joseph Funk, composer
• May 8 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
• May 28 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
• July 10 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
• July 25 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
• July 29 - Carl Borromaus Neuner
• September 3 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
• November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Deaths

• March 5 - Thomas Arne, best known for Rule, Britannia
• April 7 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
• June 7 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
• June 26 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
• July 28 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
• August 5 - Thomas Linley, composer, aged 22
• August 14 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer
• November 26 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer