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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
- 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)
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