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Events
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart moves to Vienna to pursue his career, but is passed over in favour of Antonio Salieri as music teacher of Princess of Württemberg.
- Christian Gottlob Neefe takes on the young Ludwig van Beethoven as a pupil.
- Étienne Méhul makes his first, unsuccessful attempts at orchestral composition.
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Oboe quartet
- Giovanni Paisiello - Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major
- Samuel Wesley - Concerto for Violin no 2 in D major
Opera
- Miles Peter Andrews & Samuel Arnold - The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern
- Antonio Calegari - Deucalione e Pirra
- Domenico Cimarosa - Giannina e Bernardone
- Elizabeth Craven et al - The Silver Tankard
- Nicolas Dalayrac - Le Chevalier à la mode
- Marc-Antoine Désaugiers - Les Deux sylphes
- Joseph Haydn - La fedeltà premiata
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Idomeneo
- Niccolò Piccinni - Iphigenie en Tauride
- Antonio Salieri - Der Rauchfangkehrer
- Giuseppe Sarti - Giulio Sabino
- Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli - Montesuma
Births
- January 22 - François-Antoine Habeneck, composer
- March 11 - Anthony Philip Heinrich
- March 18 - Gustave Vogt, oboist and composer
- April 22 - Christian Friedrich Hermann Uber, composer
- May 24 - Louis-François Dauprat, composer and horn-player
- June 10 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
- July 27 - Mauro Giuliani
- September 5 - Anton Diabelli
- November 3 - Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank, composer
- November 18 - Felice Blangini, composer
- December 1 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer
- unknown date - Vincent Novello
Deaths
- January 22 - Johann Siebenkas, composer
- February 4 - Josef Mysliveček, composer (b. 1737)
- May 22 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer
- July 11 - Adolph Carl Kunzen, composer
- July 30 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
- October 9 - Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie, musician and composer (b. 1732)
- October 27 - Herman-François Delange
- October - Anton Zimmermann, composer
- November 4 - Faustina Bordoni, operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1697)
- date unknown - William Paxton, cellist (b. 1737)