1779 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1778 in music, other events of 1779, 1780 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Opera house at Eszterháza burns down

Opera

• Zaide by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Amadis de Gaule by Johann Christian Bach
• Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• Sinfonia Concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• January 8 - John White, composer
• January 15 - Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
• January 22 - Stefano Pavesi, composer
• February 5 - Frans van Campenhout, singer and composer
• February 22 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
• March 1 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
• March 6 - Philippe Roth, composer
• March 13 - Oliver Shaw, composer
• March 21 - Alexis Garaude, composer
• March 28 - Angelo Maria Benincori, composer
• April 11 - Louise Reichardt
• April 21 - William Knyvett, composer
• May 28 - Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
• July 10 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer
• July 20 - Ignaz Schuster, composer
• July 21 - Gottlob Wiedebein, composer
• August 1 - Francis Scott Key, songwriter
• August 17 - Franz de Paula Roser, composer
• September 8 - Johann Philipp Samuel Schmidt, composer
• September 10 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni
• October 15 - Johan O. Wallin, songwriting bishop
• November 6 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
• December 1 - Pyotr Ivanovich Turchaninov, composer
• December 14 - Mariano Rodriguiz de Ledesma, composer
• December 15 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer

Deaths

• February 2 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer
• February 7 - William Boyce
• April 6 - Tommaso Traetta
• December 28 - Gennaro Manna, composer