1784 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1783 in music, other events of 1784, 1785 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• June 13 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.

Opera

• Richard Coeur de Lion by André Grétry
• Les Danaides by Antonio Salieri

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 76

Births

• January 1 - William Beale
• January 27 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
• January 29 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
• January 31 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
• February 3 - John Fane, composer and diplomat
• February 27 - Job Plimpton, composer
• April 8 - Dionisio Aguado
• July 27 - Georges Onslow
• August 5 - Louis Spohr
• September 7 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
• October 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer
• December 1 -Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer

Deaths

• January 11 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
• February 24 - Anton Laube, composer
• June 7 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas
• July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
• August 6 - Karl Kohaut, composer
• August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini
• September 27 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
• exact date unknown - Joseph Key of Nuneaton, composer of popular church music