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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)
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