1786 in music

See also: 1785 in music, other events of 1786, 1787 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Classical music 3 Opera 4 Published popular music 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• November 7 - America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
• In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
• Georg Joseph Vogler is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of Sweden.

Classical music

• Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
  • Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor
  • Symphony No. 38 in D "Prague"
• Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")

Opera

• Gioacchino Albertini - Virginia
• Bonifazio Asioli - Le nozze in villa
• Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky - Le Faucon
• Nicolas Dalayrac - Nina
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Der Schauspieldirektor
  • Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (first performed in Vienna, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte).
• Antonio Salieri
  • Les Horaces
  • Prima la musica e poi le parole
• Giuseppe Sarti - Armida e Rinaldo

Published popular music

• First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection

Births

• January 3 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
• April 18 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
• July 25 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
• September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau
• November 7 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer
• November 10 - Carl Eberwein, composer
• November 18 (or December 18) - Carl Maria von Weber
• November 18 - Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
• December 20 - Pietro Raimondi, composer

Deaths

• January 14 - Michael Arne, composer (b. c. 1740)
• February 20 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer (b. 1715)
• March 7 - Frantisek Benda, composer (b. 1709)
• May 19 - John Stanley, composer (b. 1712)
• July 22 - Vaclav Kalous, composer (b. 1715)
• July 29 - Franz Asplmayr, composer (b. 1728)
• August 7 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer (b. 1737)
• August 17 - King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer (b. 1712)
• September - Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, musical instrument maker (b. 1711)
• October 6 - Antonio Sacchini, composer (b. 1730)
• October 19 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer (b. 1728)
• date unknown - Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (b. 1745)
• date unknown - Jan Tomáš Kuzník, composer and music teacher (b. 1716)

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