1779 in music

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Events

• February 16 – Composer William Boyce is buried in St Paul's Cathedral. The music at his funeral features the massed choirs of St Paul's itself, Westminster Abbey and the Chapel Royal.[1]
• March 7 – Griffith Jones, aged about 21, is recommended for membership of the Royal Society of Musicians.[2]
• April – The London Magazine reports on the organ-playing of three-year-old prodigy William Crotch.
• December 26 – Teatro alla Scala in Milan opens its operatic carnival season with Josef Mysliveček's new opera Armida.
• The opera house at Eszterháza burns down.
• Mezzo-soprano Luigia Polzelli and her violinist husband Antonio arrive at the Esterházy court, where she quickly becomes the lover of Joseph Haydn.

Opera

• Johann Christian Bach – Amadis de Gaule
• Domenico Cimarosa
  • L'infedeltà fedele
  • L'italiana in Londra
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Iphigénie en Tauride
• André Ernest Modeste Grétry – L'amant jaloux
• Joseph Haydn – L'isola disabitata
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Zaide
• Giovanni Paisiello – Demetrio, R.1.59
• Antonio Salieri – Il Talismano

Classical music

• Anna Amalia – Organ Trio in C major
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavier-Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.55
• Claude-Bénigne Balbastre – Sonates en Quatuor, Op. 3 (Paris)
• William Boyce – 10 Voluntaries for the Organ
• Muzio Clementi
  • 6 Sonatas, Op. 2
  • 3 Piano Duets and 3 Sonatas, Op. 3
• François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie Concertante du Ballet de Mirza, B.90
• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphony No. 70 in D major
  • Symphony No. 71 in B-flat major, Hob.I:71
• Michael Haydn – Symphony No.23 in D major, MH 287, P.43
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
  • Concerto in E-flat major for Two Pianos
  • Serenade in D major, "Posthorn" K.320
  • Church Sonata in C major, K.329/317a
• Johann Heinrich Rolle – Thirza und ihre Söhne (oratorio)

Methods and theory writings

• Anton Bemitzrieder – Nouvel essai sur l'harmonie
• François Vincent Corbelin – Méthode de Harpe
• Franz Paul Rigler – Anleitung zum Klavier
• Francisco Inácio Solano – Novo tratado de musica metrica, e rythmica
• Francesco Antonio Vallotti – Della scienza teorica e pratica della moderna musica (On the scientific theory and practice of modern music)

Births

• January 8 – John White, organist and composer
• January 15 – Jean Coralli, ballet producer and choreographer
• February 1 – Nikolaus von Krufft, Austrian composer (died 1818)
• February 5 – François van Campenhout, singer and composer (d. 1848)
• February 22 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer (d. 1813)
• February 23 – Johann Caspar Aiblinger, composer (d. 1867)
• March 1 – Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer (d. 1839)
• March 13 – Oliver Shaw, composer (d. 1848)
• April 11 – Louise Reichardt, German composer (died 1826)
• April 21 – William Knyvett, composer
• May 28 – Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
• August 1 – Francis Scott Key, songwriter (died 1843)[3]
• September 10 – Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer
• October 15 – Johan Olof Wallin, songwriting bishop

Deaths

• February 7 – William Boyce, composer, 69[4]
• April 6 – Tommaso Traetta, composer, 52[5]
• April 7 – Martha Ray, singer, 32/33 (murdered)[6]
• June 6 – Joseph Inchbald, actor and singer, 44[7]
• November 27 – Josse Boutmy, organist and harpsichordist, 82[8]
• December 5 – Hermann Anton Gelinek, organist and violinist, 70[9]
• December 28 – Gennaro Manna, composer, 64[10]
• December - Richard Morris, collector of folk songs, 76[11]
• unknown date – Edward Jones, Welsh composer, 49/50[12]

References

1. "William Boyce", Eighteenth Century English Music (rslade.co.uk)
2. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 234. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
3. Penton, Kemberly (September 14, 2016). "Remembering Francis Scott Key: The Man Behind America's National Anthem 'The Star-Spangled Banner'". Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on October 19, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
4. The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage. 1806. p. 21.
5. Joseph Haydn (1870). Haydn's Universal Index of Biography from the Creation to the Present Time. E. Moxon, Son, and Company. p. 541.
6. McDonagh, Josephine (2003). Child Murder and British Culture, 1720–1900. Cambridge University Press. p. 73. ISBN 9780521781930.
7. Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. SIU Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
8. "Premiere Suite - Josse Boutmy". repertoire-explorer. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
9. Burnett R. Toskey (1983). Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. B.R. Toskey. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-9601054-8-9.
10. Rochus Freiherr von Liliencron; Franz X. von Wegele; Anton Bettelheim (1884). Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ...: Auf Veranlassung ... Duncker & Humblot.
11. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD (1703-1779), founder of the Cymmrodorion Society". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
12. Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 189. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8.