1781 in music

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Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moves to Vienna to pursue his career, but is passed over in favour of Antonio Salieri as music teacher of Princess of Württemberg.
• Christian Gottlob Neefe takes on the young Ludwig van Beethoven as a pupil.
• Étienne Méhul makes his first, unsuccessful attempts at orchestral composition.

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn - String Quartets, Op. 33
• Giovanni Paisiello - Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major
• Samuel Wesley - Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major

Opera

• Miles Peter Andrews & Samuel Arnold - The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
• Antonio Calegari - Deucalione e Pirra
• Domenico Cimarosa - Giannina e Bernardone
• Elizabeth Craven et al. - The Silver Tankard
• Nicolas Dalayrac - Le Chevalier à la mode
• Marc-Antoine Désaugiers - Les Deux sylphes
• Joseph Haydn - La fedeltà premiata
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Idomeneo
• Niccolò Piccinni - Iphigenie en Tauride
• Antonio Salieri - Der Rauchfangkehrer
• Giuseppe Sarti - Giulio Sabino
• Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - Montesuma

Births

• January 22 - François-Antoine Habeneck, composer
• March 11 - Anthony Philip Heinrich
• March 18 - Gustave Vogt, oboist and composer
• April 22 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
• May 24 - Louis-François Dauprat, composer and horn-player
• June 10 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
• July 27 - Mauro Giuliani
• September 5 - Anton Diabelli
• November 3 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
• November 18 - Felice Blangini, composer
• December 1 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer
• unknown date - Vincent Novello

Deaths

• January 22 - Johann Siebenkas, composer
• February 4 - Josef Mysliveček, composer (b. 1737)
• May 22 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
• July 11 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
• July 30 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
• October 9 - Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, musician and composer (b. 1732)
• October 27 - Herman-François Delange
• October - Anton Zimmermann, composer
• November 4 - Faustina Bordoni, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1697)
• date unknown - William Paxton, cellist (b. 1737)

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