- 1784 in music
Events
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April 29 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinistRegina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's "Sonata in B flat for Violin and Keyboard" (K.454) for the first time, in the presence ofJoseph II, Holy Roman Emperor .
*June 13 -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's "Piano Concerto No. 17" is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer.Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.Classical music
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Joseph Haydn - "Symphony no. 76"
*Michael Haydn - "Symphony in B flat major"; "Symphony in C major"
*Giovanni Battista Viotti - "Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major"; "Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor"Opera *
André Grétry - "Richard Coeur de Lion"
*Thomas Linley - "The Spanish Rivals"
*Antonio Salieri - "Les Danaides"; "Il Ricco d´un giorno" (libretto byLorenzo Da Ponte )
*Andrea Luchesi - "Ademira"
*Giovanni Paisiello - "Il Re Teodoro"Births
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January 1 -William Beale , composer and organist
*January 27 -Martin-Joseph Mengal , composer
*January 29 -Ferdinand Ries , composer
*January 31 -Carl Wilhelm Henning , composer
*February 3 -John Fane , composer and diplomat
*February 27 -Job Plimpton , composer
*April 8 -Dionisio Aguado , guitarist and composer
*July 27 -George Onslow , composer
*August 5 -Louis Spohr , composer, violinist and conductor
*August 23 -Jeanette Wässelius , operatic soprano
*September 7 -Frantisek Max Knize , composer
*October 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer
*November 7 -Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner , German pianist and composer
*December 1 -Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze , composerDeaths
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January 11 -Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz , composer
*February 24 -Anton Laube , composer
*March 4 -Ann Cargill , opera singer (b. 1760) (drowned)
*July 1 -Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , composer (b. 1710)
*August -Louis Anseaume , opera librettist
*August 6 -Karl Kohaut , lutenist and composer (b. 1726)
*August 4 -Giovanni Battista Martini , composer (b. 1706)
*September 12 -Manuel Blasco de Nebra , organist and composer (b. 1750)
*September 27 -Boniface Stoecki , composer
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**John Bennett, organist and composer (b. c. 1735)
**Anine Frölich , ballet dancer (b. 1762)
**Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi , luthier (b. c. 1710)
**Maria Linley singer (b. 1763)
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