1789 in music - Definition

See also: 1788 in music, other events of 1789, 1790 in music, list of years 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 Théâtre 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 Salieri’s 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"

Opera

• Così fan tutte composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• I Due Baroni by Domenico Cimarosa
• Raoul Barbe-Bleue by André Grétry

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