1778 in music

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Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's mother dies while accompanying him on a trip to Paris

Classical music

• François Joseph Gossec – Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments
• Joseph Haydn – Little Organ Mass
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"

Opera

• Carl Christian Agthe – Martin Velten
• Johann Christian Bach – La Clemenza di Scipione
• Anton Bachschmidt – Antigono
• Pierre Joseph Candeille – Les Deux comtesses
• Christian Cannabich – Azakia
• Charles Dibdin – The Shepherdess of the Alps
• Niccola Piccinni – Roland
• Antonio Salieri – La scuola de´ gelosi; L´Europa riconosciuta (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)

Published popular music

• The Singing Master's Assistant – William Billings, including "Africa"

Births

• January 5 – Fortunato Santini, composer
• January 13 – Anton Fischer, composer
• February 12 – Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
• February 13 (or 14) – Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer
• February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, composer
• March 8 – Friedrich August Kanne, composer
• April 6 – Joseph Funk, composer
• May 8 – Johann Gansbacher, composer
• May 28 – Friedrich Westenholz, composer
• July 10 – Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
• July 29 – Carl Borromaus Neuner
• September 3 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
• November 14 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Deaths

• February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (b. 1697)
• March – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, physician and music writer (b. 1711)
• March 5 – Thomas Arne, composer, best known for "Rule Britannia" (b. 1710)
• July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer (b. 1712)
• July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
• August 5 – Thomas Linley the younger, composer, aged 22
• August 14 – Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (b. 1740)
• September 20 – Quirino Gasparini, composer (b. 1721)
• October 30 – Davide Perez, opera composer (b. 1711)
• November 11 – Anne Steele, hymn-writer (b. 1717)
• December – Samuel Linley, oboist and singer (b. 1760)
• December 12 – Hermann Raupach, composer (b. 1728)
• date unknown
  • Americus Backers, piano maker
  • Célestin Harst, organist and harpsichordist (b. 1698)
  • Johannes Ringk, organist, composer and copyist of Bach (b. 1717)