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Events
- January 1 - Giovanni Paisiello officially leaves his employment at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, having returned to Italy some months earlier.[1]
- January 12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is produced by impresario Pasquale Bondini's company in Dresden.[2]
- January 15 - The first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn (or possibly just three of them) is given in Mozart's own home.[1]
- January 21 – Soprano Nancy Storace, who was about to give birth, was replaced as Rosina in a Vienna production of Giovanni Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia by Luisa Laschi, to great acclaim.[3]
- February 7 - Leopold Mozart leaves Munich for Vienna, with a pupil, Heinrich Marchand, in tow.[1]
- February 26 – Polish violinist Feliks Janiewicz makes what was probably his debut as a soloist in a concert at the Burgtheater in Vienna.[4]
- March 7 - King Ferdinand I of Naples awards a lifetime annual salary of 1,200 ducats to Giovanni Paisiello, on the understanding that the latter writes one new opera every year.[1]
- March 28 - Domenico Cimarosa becomes second organist at the Chapel Royal of Naples.[1]
- September 19 – Amélie-Julie Candeille makes her Comédie-Française début as a singer.[5]
- October 13 – The Lord Chamberlain, James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, refuses to grant a licence to Giovanni Gallini for his Italian Opera House in London, unless he appoints a Mr. Crawford as deputy manager.[6]
- October 26 - Joseph Haydn receives a visit from Venetian revolutionary Francisco de Miranda, to whom he gives a guided tour of Schloss Esterházy.[1]
- November 22 - The Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, is officially opened.[1]
- Composer John Antes is appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England[7]
- Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.[8]
- Opera composer Michele Mortellari relocates to London from his native Italy.[9]
- Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany appoints Filippo Maria Gherardeschi organist and maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Conventuale dei Cavalieri di S Stefano at Pisa.[10]
- Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & Konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.[11]
Bands formed
Published popular music
Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Three quartets for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello, in E♭ major, D major, and C major, WoO 36
- William Billings - "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, We Will Go Into The House Of Ye Lord"
- William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
- Muzio Clementi - Six piano sonatas, op. 13
- Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 83 in G minor "La poule" and 85 in B flat "La Reine"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ignaz Pleyel, String Quartet
- Johann Schenk - Die Weinlese (singspiel)
- John Stanley - "Delusive is the poet's dream"
Opera
- Gaetano Andreozzi – Giasone e Medea
- Marcello Bernardini – Le donne bisbetiche, o sia L’antiquario fanatico, Teatro Pace, Rome (during carnival).[15]
- Pierre Joseph Candeille – Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou, Opéra, Paris (3 May)[16]
- Luigi Cherubini – La finta principessa, King's Theatre, London (9 April)[17]
- Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le Faux serment
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf –
- Der Hufschmied (Der gelehrte Hufschmied) (German version, text translated by J. C. Kaffka, of Il maniscalco, 1775), Breslau (13 May)[18]
- 25 000 Gulden oder im Dunkeln ist gut munkeln, Vienna[citation needed]
- Robert Jephson – Campaign, or Love in the East Indies, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (12 May)[19]
- Thomas Linley –
- Michele Mortellari –
- Ignaz Pleyel - Ifigenia in Aulide
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Artemisia
- Antonio Salieri – La Grotta di Trofonio
- William Shield –
- The Nunnery, Covent Garden, London (12 April)[24]
- The Choleric Fathers, Covent Garden, London (10 November)[25]
- Omai, or A Trip Round the World, Covent Garden, London (20 December)[26]
- Stephen Storace – Gli sposi malcontenti, Burgtheater, Vienna (1 June)[27]
Births
Deaths
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 MusicAndHistory:1785 Accessed 21 April 2013
- ↑ Peter Branscombe, "Bondini, Pasquale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Christopher Raeburn, "Laschi [Mombelli], Luisa", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Jacek Berwaldt and Margaret Mikulska, "Janiewica, Feliks [Yaniewicz, Felix] ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Julian Rushton, Julie Anne Sadie, Robert Adelson, and Jacqueline Letzter, "Candeille, Julie", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Anonymous, untitled notice in the Times, no. 251 (Friday, 14 October 1785): 2C.
- ↑ Karl Kroeger, "Antes, John [Johann]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Richard Crawford and Nym Cooke, "Belcher, Supply", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Marita P. McClymonds, “Mortellari, Michele”, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Howard Brofsky and Stefano Barandoni, "Gherardeschi, Filippo Maria", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Chappell White, "Strinasacchi {Strina Sacchi], Regina", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ "Music Just Published, by Longman and Broderip" (classified advertisement), The Times, no. 28 (Wednesday, 2 February 1785): 4A
- ↑ "Music Just Published, by Longman and Broderip" (classified advertisement), The Times, no. 28 (Wednesday, 2 February 1785): 4A
- ↑ "Music Just Published, by Longman and Broderip" (classified advertisement), The Times, no. 28 (Wednesday, 2 February 1785): 4A
- ↑ Raoul Meloncelli and Marita P. McClymonds, "Bernardini, Marcello [Marcello da Capua]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Julian Rushton, "Candeille, Pierre Joseph", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Anon., "Italian Opera", Times, no. 90 (Monday, 11 April 1785): 2C.
- ↑ Margaret Grave and Jay Lane, "Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von [Ditters, Carl]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
- ↑ Anon. "Favourite AIRS in the New Comic Opera", Times, no. 119 (Saturday, 14 May): 3B.
- ↑ Gwilym Beechey and Linda Troost, "Linley: (1) Thomas Linley (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Anon., "Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane (Never Performed) By his Majesty’s Company", The Times, no. 298 (Thursday, 8 December): 1A; Gwilym Beechey and Linda Troost, "Linley: (1) Thomas Linley (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Marita P. McClymonds, "Mortellari, Michele", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Marita P. McClymonds, "Mortellari, Michele", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
- ↑ Anon., “Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden", The Times, no. 90 (Monday, 11 April): 1A; Anon., "Fable to the Comic Opera of The Nunnery", The Times, no. 93 (14 April): 3A.
- ↑ Anon., "Shield's Music", The Times, no. 279 (Wednesday, 16 November): 2D.
- ↑ Anon., "Theatre: A New Pantomime, Entitled Omai", The Times no. 310 (Thursday 22 December): 3A.
- ↑ Jane Girdham, "Storace, Stephen (John Seymour)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
