1786 in music
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Events
- November 7 – America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical SocietyStoughton Musical SocietyOrganized in 1786, this is currently America's oldest choral society. Over the past two centuries it has had many distinguished accomplishments. In 1908, when incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the name was changed to Old Stoughton Musical Society...
. - In Britain, William ParsonsWilliam Parsons (composer)Sir William Parsons was an English composer and musician who was Master of the King's Musick under George III between 1786 and 1817....
succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick. - In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis FowkeFrancis FowkeFrancis Fowke RE was a British engineer and architect, and a Captain in the Corps of Royal Engineers. Most of his architectural work was executed in the Renaissance style, although he made use of relatively new technologies to create iron framed buildings, with large open galleries and...
conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichordHarpsichordA harpsichord is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It produces sound by plucking a string when a key is pressed.In the narrow sense, "harpsichord" designates only the large wing-shaped instruments in which the strings are perpendicular to the keyboard...
with that of a traditional Indian instrument. - Georg Joseph VoglerGeorg Joseph VoglerGeorg Joseph Vogler, also known as Abbé Vogler , was a German composer, organist, teacher and theorist.Vogler was born at Pleichach in Würzburg...
is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of SwedenGustav III of SwedenGustav III was King of Sweden from 1771 until his death. He was the eldest son of King Adolph Frederick and Queen Louise Ulrica of Sweden, she a sister of Frederick the Great of Prussia....
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Classical music
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
- 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...
- Piano Concerto No. 23 in APiano Concerto No. 23 (Mozart)The Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major is a musical composition for piano and orchestra written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was finished, according to Mozart's own catalogue, on March 2, 1786, around the time of the premiere of his opera, The Marriage of Figaro...
- Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minorPiano Concerto No. 24 (Mozart)The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 is a concertante work for piano, or pianoforte, and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786 and completed the work on 24 March 1786...
- Symphony No. 38 in D "Prague"Symphony No. 38 (Mozart)The Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504, was composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in late 1786. It was premiered in Prague on January 19, 1787, a few weeks after Le nozze di Figaro opened there. It is popularly known as the Prague Symphony...
- Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
- 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...
– Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")Symphony No. 82 (Haydn)The Symphony No. 82 in C major, Hoboken 1/82, is the first of the so-called six Paris Symphonies written by Joseph Haydn. It is popularly known as the Bear Symphony .-Background:...
OperaOperaOpera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
- Gioacchino Albertini – Virginia
- Bonifazio Asioli – Le nozze in villa
- Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky – Le Faucon
- Nicolas DalayracNicolas DalayracNicolas-Marie d'Alayrac, known as Nicolas Dalayrac , was a French composer, best known for his opéras-comiques.- Biography :...
– NinaNina (Dalayrac)Nina, ou La folle par amour is an opera in one act by the French composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris on 15 May 1786... - 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...
- Der SchauspieldirektorDer SchauspieldirektorDer Schauspieldirektor , K. 486, is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian Schauspieldirektor....
(The Impresario) - Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of FigaroThe Marriage of FigaroLe nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata , K. 492, is an opera buffa composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro .Although the play by...
) (first performed in Vienna, libretto by Lorenzo da PonteLorenzo Da PonteLorenzo Da Ponte was a Venetian opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte....
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- Der Schauspieldirektor
- 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....
- Les Horaces
- Prima la musica e poi le parole
- Giuseppe SartiGiuseppe SartiGiuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:He was born at Faenza. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 1 December 1729. Some earlier sources say he was born on 28 December, but his baptism certificate proves the later date impossible...
– Armida e Rinaldo
Births
- January 3 – Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
- June 21 – Charles Edward HornCharles Edward HornCharles Edward Horn was an English composer and singer. He was born in St Martin-in-the-Fields, London to Charles Frederick Horn and his wife, Diana Dupont. He was the eldest of their seven children. His father taught him music; he also took music lessons briefly in 1808 from singer Venanzio...
, singer and composer (d. 1849) - September 11 – Friedrich KuhlauFriedrich KuhlauFriedrich Daniel Rudolf Kuhlau was a German-Danish composer during the Classical and Romantic periods. He was a central figure of the Danish Golden Age....
, composer (d. 1832 - November 18
- Carl Maria von WeberCarl Maria von WeberCarl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....
, composer (or December 18) - Sir Henry Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
- Carl Maria von Weber
- December 20 – Pietro RaimondiPietro RaimondiPietro Raimondi was an Italian composer, transitional between the Classical and Romantic eras...
, composer - date unknown
- Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, composer (d. 1841)
- Elena Pucić-SorkočevićElena Pucic-SorkocevicCountess Elena Pucić-Sorkočević, also Elena Pozza-Sorgo was the first female composer in the Republic of Ragusa , located in today's southern Croatia. She was born Elena Lujza Ranjina, and married Nikola Lucijan Pucić-Sorkočević . They had two children: Marina, who married Matej Natali and Lucijan...
, composer (d. 1865)
Deaths
- January 14 – Michael ArneMichael ArneMichael Arne was an English composer, harpsichordist, organist, singer, and actor. He was the son of composer Thomas Arne and lauded soprano Cecilia Young, the latter of which belonged to the famous Young family of musicians of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...
, composer (b. c. 1740) - March 7 – Frantisek Benda, composer (b. 1709)
- May 19 – John StanleyJohn Stanley (composer)Charles John Stanley was an English composer and organist.-Biography:Stanley, who was blind from an early age, studied music with Maurice Greene and held a number of organist appointments in London, such as St Andrew's, Holborn from 1726...
, composer (b. 1712) - July 22 – Vaclav Kalous, composer (b. 1715)
- July 29 – Franz AsplmayrFranz AsplmayrFranz Asplmayr was an Austrian composer and violinist. There are many variants of his name, including Franz Aspelmayr, Franz Aschpellmayr and Franz Appelmeyer. He is best known for an opera on Greek myths, and for a few symphonies and string trios of his which were attributed to Joseph Haydn at...
, composer (b. 1728) - August 17 – King Frederick II of PrussiaFrederick II of PrussiaFrederick II was a King in Prussia and a King of Prussia from the Hohenzollern dynasty. In his role as a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire, he was also Elector of Brandenburg. He was in personal union the sovereign prince of the Principality of Neuchâtel...
, amateur composer (b. 1712) - September – Giovanni Battista GuadagniniGiovanni Battista GuadagniniGiovanni Battista Guadagnini ; was an emiliano luthier, regarded as one of the finest craftsmen of string instruments in history.-Biography:...
, musical instrument maker (b. 1711) - October 6 – Antonio SacchiniAntonio SacchiniAntonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini was an Italian opera composer.Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where...
, composer (b. 1730) - date unknown
- Karl von OrdóñezKarl von OrdóñezKarl von Ordoñez was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the Eighteenth century. Ordonez was not a full-time professional musician...
, composer (b. 1734) - Sophia BaddeleySophia BaddeleySophia Baddeley was an English actress, singer and courtesan.- Early life, musical career :She was born in London, the daughter of Valentine Snow, a sergeant-trumpeter. As a child, she was trained by her father for a future musical career. At the age of eighteen she eloped with the actor Robert...
, actress and singer (b. 1745) - Jan Tomáš KuzníkJan Tomáš KuzníkJan Tomáš Kuzník was a Czech teacher of music, musician, composer and poet, acting in Haná region of Moravia.Kuzník was born near Kojetín. During 1739–1764 he worked in Napajedla as a music teacher and organist. Most of his works comes from this period...
, composer and music teacher (b. 1716)
- Karl von Ordóñez