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Events
- Luigi Boccherini becomes court composer in Berlin.
- Ludwig van Beethoven goes to Vienna, where he meets Mozart, but his mother's death forces him to return to Bonn.
- Luigi Cherubini settles in Paris.
Publications
- Scots Musical Museum, vol. 1
Published popular music
- Robert Burns - "The Battle of Sherramuir" (to a traditional tune)
Classical music
- Muzio Clementi - Two Symphonies
- Giuseppe Gherardeschi - Sonata for Organ "In the Guise of a Military Band..."
- Joseph Haydn
- Joseph Martin Kraus - Symphony in E minor
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opera
- Antoine Ballant - Dobrodetel'nïy volshebnik
- Giuseppe Gazzaniga - Don Giovanni
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Don Giovanni (first performed in Prague in the Estates Theatre, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte)
- Antonio Salieri - Tarare (libretto by Beaumarchais)
Births
- February 13 - James P. Carrell, singing teacher and composer (d. 1854)
- August 15 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer (d. 1851)
- November 17 - Michele Carafa, composer (d. 1872)
- November 25 - Franz Xaver Gruber, organist and composer of "Silent Night" (d. 1863)
Deaths
- May 28 - Leopold Mozart, violinist, music teacher and composer (b. 1719)
- June 20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, viola da gamba player and composer (b. 1723)
- August 5 - François Francoeur, violinist and composer (b. 1698)
- November 15 - Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (b. 1714)
- November 23 - Anton Schweitzer, opera composer (b. 1735)
- December 9 - Bernhard Joachim Hagen, composer, violinist and lutenist (b. 1720)
- date unknown - Mary Linley, singer (b. 1758)
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