1787 in music - Definition

See also: 1786 in music, other events of 1787, 1788 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Luigi Boccherini becomes court composer in Berlin.
• Ludwig van Beethoven goes to Vienna, where he meets Mozart, but his mother's death forces him to return to Bonn.
• Luigi Cherubini settles in Paris.

Opera

• Don Giovanni was first performed in Prague. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
• Tarare by Antonio Salieri

Classical music

• Seven Last Words of Christ - Joseph Haydn
• Symphony No. 89 in F major - Haydn

Births

• January 8 - Johann Ludwig Bohner, composer
• February 13 - James P Carrell, composer
• August 15 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
• September 1 - John Bake, composer
• October 30 - Karl Guhr, composer
• November 17 - Michele Carafa, composer
• November 27 - Christian Rummel
• December 1 - Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer

Deaths

• May 13 - Johann Michael Malzat, composer
• May 28 - Leopold Mozart
• June 20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, viola player and composer
• November 23 - Anton Schweitzer
• November 25 - Franz Xavier Gruber, organist and composer of "Silent Night"
• November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck