January 1 – Giovanni Paisiello officially leaves his employment at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, having returned to Italy some months earlier.^[1]
January 12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is produced by impresario Pasquale Bondini's company in Dresden.^[2]
January 15 – The first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn (or possibly just three of them) is given in Mozart's own home.^[1]
January 21 – Soprano Nancy Storace, who was about to give birth, was replaced as Rosina in a Vienna production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il barbiere di SivigliabyLuisa Laschi, to great acclaim.^[3]
February 7 – Leopold Mozart leaves Munich for Vienna, with a pupil, Heinrich Marchand, in tow.^[1]
February 26 – Polish violinist Feliks Janiewicz makes what was probably his debut as a soloist in a concert at the Burgtheater in Vienna.^[4]
March 7 – King Ferdinand I of Naples awards a lifetime annual salary of 1,200 ducats to Giovanni Paisiello, on the understanding that the latter writes one new opera every year.^[1]
March 28 – Domenico Cimarosa becomes second organist at the Chapel Royal of Naples.^[1]
September 19 – Amélie-Julie Candeille makes her Comédie-Française début as a singer.^[5]
October 13 – The Lord Chamberlain, James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, refuses to grant a licence to Giovanni Gallini for his Italian Opera House in London, unless he appoints a Mr. Crawford as deputy manager.^[6]
October 26 – Joseph Haydn receives a visit from Venezuelan revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, to whom he gives a guided tour of Schloss Esterházy.^[1]
November 22 – The Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, is officially opened.^[1]
Composer John Antes is appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England^[7]
Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.^[8]
Opera composer Michele Mortellari [it; ca; cs] relocates to London from his native Italy.^[9]
Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany appoints Filippo Maria Gherardeschi organist and maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Conventuale dei Cavalieri di S Stefano at Pisa.^[10]
Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & Konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.^[11]

Bands formed

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Band of the Coldstream Guards (16 May)

Published popular music

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"Cara sposa", music by Johann Christian Bach from the cantata Rinaldo ed Armide (lost)^[12]
"Song of the Page", music by William Shield from Follies of a Day, or The Marriage of Figaro^[12]
"Black-eyed Susan", by Robert Broderip^[12]

Classical music

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Carl Friedrich Abel – 4 Trio Sonatas, WK 98–101 (Op. 16)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 2 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.59
Johann Christian Bach
- 6 Violin Sonatas, Op.10 (posthumously)
- 2 Symphonies, Op. 18 (posthumously)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Three quartets for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello, in E♭ major, D major, and C major, WoO 36
William Billings – "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, We Will Go Into The House Of Ye Lord"
Luigi Boccherini – Cello Concerto No. 10 in D major, G.483
William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
Giuseppe Maria Cambini
- 6 Flute Quartets, T.145–150
- 6 Trios for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, Op. 45
Muzio Clementi – Six piano sonatas, Op. 13
Francois Devienne – Flute Concerto No.3 in G major
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses (comp. 1781, first three published 1785)
Anton Eberl – Symphony in C major
Giuseppe (orTomasso) Giordani – Caro Mio Ben
Joseph Haydn
- Symphony 83 in G minor "La poule"
- Symphony 85 in B-flat "La Reine"
- Symphony 87 in A major, Hob.I:87
- Overture in D major, Hob.Ia:4
- 12 Minuets, Hob.IX:8
- Piano Trios, Op.27 (Hob.XV:2,9,10)
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
- Double Bass Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
- Keyboard Sonata in A major, WeiH 37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
- String Quartet No.18 in A major, K.464
- String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
- Lied zur Gesellenreise, K. 468
- Davidde penitente, K. 469
- Fantasia in C minor, K. 475
- Piano Quartet No. 1, K. 478
Giovanni Paisiello – Il ritorno di Perseo, R.2.6 (cantata)
Ignaz Pleyel
- String Quartet
- Symphony in D major, B.126
Joseph Bologne de Saint Georges – 6 String Quartets, Op. 14
Johann Schenk – Die Weinlese (singspiel)
John Stanley – "Delusive is the poet's dream"
Gaetano Valeri [it] – 12 Organ Sonatas, Op. 1
Friedrich Witt – Symphony in A major
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – 3 String Quartets, Op. 3
Maria Carolina Wolf – Glänzender sinket die Sonne

Opera

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Gaetano Andreozzi [it] – Giasone e Medea
Marcello Bernardini – Le donne bisbetiche, o sia L'antiquario fanatico, Teatro Pace, Rome (during carnival).^[13]
Pierre-Joseph Candeille – Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou, Opéra, Paris (3 May)^[14]
Luigi Cherubini – La finta principessa, King's Theatre, London (9 April)^[15]
Domenico Cimarosa – La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia
Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le Faux serment
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf Der Hufschmied (Der gelehrte Hufschmied) (German version, text translated by J. C. Kaffka, of Il maniscalco, 1775), Breslau (13 May)^[16]
Robert Jephson – Campaign, or Love in the East Indies, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (12 May)^[17]
Thomas Linley
- Hurly-Burly, or The Fairy of the Well, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (26 December)^[18]
- Strangers at Home, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London (8 December)^[19]^[18]
Michele Mortellari [it; ca; cs]
- Armida abbandonata, Teatro della Pergola, Florence (autumn)^[20]
- L'infanta supposta, Teatro Ducale, Modena^[20]
Giovanni Paisiello – La grotta di Trofonio, R.1.69
Ignaz Pleyel – Ifigenia in Aulide
Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Artemisia
Antonio Salieri – La Grotta di Trofonio
Giuseppe Sarti – I finti eredi
William Shield
- The Nunnery, Covent Garden, London (12 April)^[21]
- The Choleric Fathers, Covent Garden, London (10 November)^[22]
- Omai, or A Trip Round the World, Covent Garden, London (20 December)^[23]
Stephen Storace – Gli sposi malcontenti, Burgtheater, Vienna (1 June)^[24]

Births

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February 2 – Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano and composer (died 1845)
March 3
- Nicola Petrini Zamboni [it], composer (died 1849)
- Giovanni Ricordi, violinist and opera publisher (died 1853)
March 6 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer (died 1857)
March 19 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (died 1853)
April 4 – Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (died 1859)^[25]
April 19 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (died 1858)
August 18 – Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (died 1873)
September 5 – Thomas Adams, organist and composer (died 1858)
September 11 – Alpheus Babcock, American piano maker (died 1842)
November 2 – Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (died 1849)
date unknown
- Max Bohrer [sv], German-born composer and cellist (died 1867)
- Zofia Dmuszewska, Polish actor and opera singer (died 1807)

Deaths

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January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, composer (born 1706)^[26]
April 26 – Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer and noble (born 1744)^[27]
May 15 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, organist and composer (born 1756)
June 2 – Gottfried August Homilius, organist, cantor and composer (born 1714)^[28]
June 22 – Matthias Vanden Gheyn, composer (born 1721)^[29]
August 31 – Pietro Chiari, librettist (born 1712)
November 19 – Bernard de Bury, composer (born 1720)^[30]
December 8 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (born 1717)
December 29 – Johann Heinrich Rolle, composer (born 1716)^[31]
date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Gervasio, composer and musician (born c. 1725)
- Antoine Mahaut, composer and flautist (born 1719)

References

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^ Peter Branscombe, "Bondini, Pasquale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Christopher Raeburn, "Laschi [Mombelli], Luisa", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Jacek Berwaldt and Margaret Mikulska, "Janiewica, Feliks [Yaniewicz, Felix]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Julian Rushton, Julie Anne Sadie, Robert Adelson, and Jacqueline Letzter, "Candeille, Julie", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Anonymous, untitled notice in The Times, no. 251 (14 October 1785): 2C.

^ Karl Kroeger, "Antes, John [Johann]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Richard Crawford and Nym Cooke, "Belcher, Supply", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Marita P. McClymonds, “Mortellari, Michele”, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992).

^ Howard Brofsky and Stefano Barandoni, "Gherardeschi, Filippo Maria", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Chappell White, "Strinasacchi {Strina Sacchi], Regina", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ ^a ^b ^c "Music Just Published, by Longman and Broderip" (classified advertisement), The Times, no. 28 (2 February 1785): 4A

^ Raoul Meloncelli and Marita P. McClymonds, "Bernardini, Marcello [Marcello da Capua]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

^ Julian Rushton, "Candeille, Pierre-Joseph", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992).

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^ Anon. "Favourite Airs in the New Comic Opera", The Times, no. 119 (14 May): 3B.

^ ^a ^b Gwilym Beechey and Linda Troost, "Linley: (1) Thomas Linley (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992).

^ Anon., "Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane (Never Performed) By his Majesty's Company", The Times, no. 298 (8 December): 1A

^ ^a ^b Marita P. McClymonds, "Mortellari, Michele", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan, 1992).

^ Anon., “Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden", The Times, no. 90 (11 April): 1A; Anon., "Fable to the Comic Opera of The Nunnery", The Times, no. 93 (14 April): 3A.

^ Anon., "Shield's Music", The Times, no. 279 (16 November): 2D.

^ Anon., "Theatre: A New Pantomime, Entitled Omai", The Times no. 310 (22 December): 3A.

^ Jane Girdham, "Storace, Stephen (John Seymour)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

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^ Arnold, Denis. "Galuppi's Religious Music", The Musical Times, 1 January 1985, pp. 45–47 and 49–50 (subscription required)

^ Franz Brümmer (1891), "Seckendorff, Karl Sigmund Freiherr v.", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 33, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 518

^ Don Michael Randel, ed. (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. p. 392. ISBN 9780674372993. Homilius, Gottfried August

^ Rombouts, Luc (2001). "Vanden Gheyn, Matthias". In Sadie, Stanley; Tyrrell, John (eds.). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 26 (2nd ed.). London: Macmillan. pp. 245–246.

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^ Erich Valentin, Johann Heinrich Rolle. Ein Mitteldeutscher Musiker des 18. Jahrhunderts, in: Sachsen und Anhalt 9 (1933), pp. 109–160.

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