1782 in music

Events

• March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes a début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
• August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber.
• William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
• Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.

Published popular music

• Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)

Classical music

• Luigi Boccherini
  • Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
  • Symphony in E flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
  • Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
  • Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
  • Symphony in E flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • String Quartet in G, K. 387
  • Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner"
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, G 44

Opera

• Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
• François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
• Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail ("Il Seraglio")
• Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia

Births

• January 29 – Daniel Auber and Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski, composers
• April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer
• May 26 – Joseph Drechsler, composer
• July 19 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer
• July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer
• September 26 – Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
• October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, violinist

Deaths

• January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
• March 19 – Adrien Trudo Sale and Louis-Henry Paisible, composers
• April 6 – Rynoldus Popma van Oevering, composer
• April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
• April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
• May 20 – Carlo Giovanni Testori and Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composers
• July 15
  • Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
  • Robert Wainwright, composer
• July 21 – Placidus Cajetan von Camerloher, composer
• August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
• August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
• October – John Parry Ddall, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
• date unknown – Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)