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See also: 1784 in music, other events of 1785, 1786 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.
- Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.
- Joseph Haydn premieres the first of his Paris symphonies on commission from Count d'Ogny
Bands Formed
- Coldstream Guards Band (16 May)
Classical Music
- William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
- Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 83 in G minor "La poule" and 85 in B flat "La Reine"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
- String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
- Ignace Pleyel, String Quartet
Opera
- Gaetano Andreozzi - Giasone e Medea
- Prosper-Didier Deshayes - Le Faux serment
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Artemisia
- Antonio Salieri - La Grotta di Trofonio
Births
- February 2 - Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano (d. 1845)
- March 6 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer (d. 1857)
- March 19 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (d. 1853)
- April 4 - Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (d. 1859)
- April 19 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (d. 1858)
- August 18 - Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (d. 1873)
- September 5 - Thomas Adams, organist and composer (d. 1858)
- September 25 - George Frederic Pinto, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1805)
- November 2
- Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (d. 1849)
- Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer
Deaths
- January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (b. 1706)
- February 19 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer (b. 1700)
- May 9 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer (b. 1740)
- May 10 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer (b. 1748)
- May 15 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, organist and composer (b. 1756)
- June 5 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer (b. 1714)
- August 31 - Pietro Chiari, librettist (b. 1712)
- October 24 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer (b. 1723)
- November 19 - Bernard de Bury, composer (b. 1720)
- December 8 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (b. 1717)
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