1783 in music

Events

• August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
• John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Three Sonatas ('Kurfuerstensonaten') in E-flat, F, and D
• Joseph Haydn – Cello Concerto in D
• Michael Haydn – Symphony in E flat major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Great Mass in C minor
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
• Samuel Wesley – Magnificat

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata
• Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali
• André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire
• William Shield – The Poor Soldier

Published popular music

• "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns

Births

• January 12 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847)
• January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
• January 26 – Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856)
• February 15 – Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
• March 8 – Gottfied Wilhelm Fink
• March 26 – Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
• May 10 – Niccola Benvenuti, composer
• May 22 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer
• June 29 – August Alexander Klengel, composer
• October 13 – Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
• December 14 – Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
• December 28 – Robert Gallenberg, composer

Deaths

• January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
• January 14 – Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (b. 1682)
• January 31 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (b. 1710)
• February 10 – James Nares, composer (b. 1715)
• March 23 – Gaspard Fritz, composer
• April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (b. 1711)
• July 27 – Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (b. 1721)
• November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter (b. 1709)
• December 20 – Antonio Soler, composer (b. 1729)
• December 23 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (b. 1699)
• date unknown – Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (b. 1741)