1778 in music
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Classical music
- François Joseph GossecFrançois Joseph GossecFrançois-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.-Life and work:...
– Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments - Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
– Little Organ Mass - Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
– Symphony No. 31 in DSymphony No. 31 (Mozart)The Symphony No. 31 in D major, K. 297/300a, better known as the Paris Symphony, is one of the more famous symphonies by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.-Composition and premiere:...
"Paris"
Opera
- Carl Christian Agthe – Martin Velten
- Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
– La Clemenza di Scipione - Anton Bachschmidt – Antigono
- Pierre Joseph Candeille – Les Deux comtesses
- Christian CannabichChristian CannabichJohann Christian Innocenz Bonaventura Cannabich , was a German violinist, composer, and Kapellmeister of the Classical era...
– Azakia - Charles DibdinCharles DibdinCharles Dibdin was a British musician, dramatist, novelist, actor and songwriter. The son of a parish clerk, he was born in Southampton on or before 4 March 1745, and was the youngest of a family of 18....
– The Shepherdess of the Alps - Niccola Piccinni – Roland
- Antonio SalieriAntonio SalieriAntonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
– La scuola de´ gelosi; L´Europa riconosciuta (the latter was the first production of the ScalaLa ScalaLa Scala , is a world renowned opera house in Milan, Italy. The theatre was inaugurated on 3 August 1778 and was originally known as the New Royal-Ducal Theatre at La Scala...
at Milan)
Published popular music
- The Singing Master's Assistant – William BillingsWilliam BillingsWilliam Billings was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music...
, including "Africa"
Births
- January 5 – Fortunato Santini, composer
- January 13 – Anton Fischer, composer
- February 12 – Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
- February 13 (or 14) – Fernando SorFernando SorJosep Ferran Sorts i Muntades was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer. While he is best known for his guitar compositions, he also composed music for a wide range of genres, including opera, orchestra, string quartet, piano, voice and ballet...
, guitarist and composer - February 15 – Johann Gottlieb GörnerJohann Gottlieb GörnerJohann Gottlieb Görner was a German composer and organist. His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner...
, composer - March 8 – Friedrich August KanneFriedrich August Kanne-Biography:Kanne was born on 8 March 1778 in Delitzsch, Saxony. He studied theology and medicine it Leipzig and Wittenberg, then literature and composition in Dresden. At the end of 1804, he moved to Vienna and worked briefly as a music tutor to Franz Joseph Maximilian of the House of Lobkowicz...
, composer - April 6 – Joseph FunkJoseph FunkJoseph Funk was a pioneer American music teacher, publisher, and one of the first American composers.Joseph Funk was born April 6, 1778 , in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Henry and Barbara Funk, and a grandson of Bishop Henry Funck...
, composer - May 8 – Johann Gansbacher, composer
- May 28 – Friedrich Westenholz, composer
- July 10 – Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
- July 29 – Carl Borromaus Neuner
- September 3 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
- November 14 – Johann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk HummelJohann Nepomuk Hummel or Jan Nepomuk Hummel was an Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist. His music reflects the transition from the Classical to the Romantic musical era.- Life :...
Deaths
- February 15 – Johann Gottlieb GörnerJohann Gottlieb GörnerJohann Gottlieb Görner was a German composer and organist. His brother was the composer Johann Valentin Görner and his son the organist Karl Friedrich Görner...
, organist and composer (b. 1697) - March – Lorenz Christoph MizlerLorenz Christoph MizlerLorenz Christoph Mizler von Kolof was a German physician, mathematician, and writer on music.-Biography:...
, physician and music writer (b. 1711) - March 5 – Thomas Arne, composer, best known for "Rule Britannia" (b. 1710)
- July 2 – Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of modern political, sociological and educational thought.His novel Émile: or, On Education is a treatise...
, philosopher, writer and composer (b. 1712) - July 3 – Anna Maria MozartAnna Maria MozartAnna Maria Walburga Mozart was the mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Maria Anna Mozart.-Biography:...
, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
(b. 1720) - August 5 – Thomas Linley the youngerThomas Linley the youngerThomas Linley the younger was the eldest son of the composer Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson. He was one of the most precocious composers and performers that have been known in England, and became known as the "English Mozart".-Early life:Linley's abilities were apparent from a...
, composer, aged 22 - August 14 – Augustus Montague TopladyAugustus Montague TopladyAugustus Montague Toplady was an Anglican cleric and hymn writer. He was a major Calvinist opponent of John Wesley. He is best remembered as the author of the hymn "Rock of Ages"...
, hymn-writer (b. 1740) - September 20 – Quirino GaspariniQuirino GaspariniQuirino Gasparini was an Italian composer, born in Gandino, near Bergamo, Italy. He studied for the priesthood, but largely devoted his life to music, becoming maestro de capello at Turin's cathedral. His compositions are mainly of church music, including a Stabat Mater which is still performed...
, composer (b. 1721) - October 30 – Davide Perez, opera composer (b. 1711)
- November 11 – Anne SteeleAnne SteeleAnne Steele , English hymn writer, was born at Broughton, Hampshire.The drowning of her betrothed, a Mr. Elscourt, a few hours before the time fixed for her marriage deeply affected an otherwise quiet life, and her hymns rather emphasize the less optimistic phases of Christian experience...
, hymn-writer (b. 1717) - December – Samuel LinleySamuel LinleySamuel Linley was the second son of Thomas Linley the elder and Mary Johnson, one of 7 musical siblings born to that couple. He sang in his father's concerts, 1774-5, and played the oboe. In 1778 he became a midshipman on HMS Thunderer, aboard which he contracted the fever from which he...
, oboist and singer (b. 1760) - December 12 – Hermann RaupachHermann RaupachHermann Friedrich Raupach was a German composer.-Biography:Hermann Raupach was born at Stralsund in Germany, the son and pupil of composer and organist Christoph Raupach and the nephew of Lutheran church historian Bernhard Raupach...
, composer (b. 1728) - date unknown
- Americus BackersAmericus BackersAmericus Backers , sometimes described as the father of the English grand pianoforte style, brought the hammer striking action for keyboard instruments from his master Gottfried Silbermann’s workshop in Freiburg to England in the mid-18th century...
, piano maker - Célestin HarstCélestin HarstCélestin Harst was a French catholic priest, organist and harpsichordist.He was born in Sélestat , Alsace, and became prior of the Ebersmunster abbey. At some point in life, he was introduced to the French royal court and played for Louis XV....
, organist and harpsichordist (b. 1698) - Johannes RingkJohannes RingkJohannes Ringk, or Ringck, was a German composer and organist.He was born in Frankenhain, Thuringia, and studied organ with Johann Peter Kellner in Gräfenroda and Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel in Gotha. From 1740 he was a music teacher in Berlin, and in 1754 he was appointed organist of the...
, organist, composer and copyist of Bach (b. 1717)
- Americus Backers