1785 in music

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Events

• Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.
• Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.
• Joseph Haydn premieres the first of his Paris symphonies on commission from Count d'Ogny

Bands Formed

• Coldstream Guards Band (16 May)

Classical Music

• William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
• Joseph Haydn, Symphonies 83 in G minor "La poule" and 85 in B flat "La Reine"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Piano Concertos 20 in D minor and 21 in C major
  • String Quartet in C, "Dissonance"
• Ignace Pleyel, String Quartet

Opera

• Gaetano Andreozzi – Giasone e Medea
• Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le Faux serment
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Artemisia
• Antonio Salieri – La Grotta di Trofonio

Births

• February 2 – Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano (d. 1845)
• March 6 – Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer (d. 1857)
• March 19 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (d. 1853)
• April 4 – Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (d. 1859)
• April 19 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (d. 1858)
• August 18 – Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (d. 1873)
• September 5 – Thomas Adams, organist and composer (d. 1858)
• September 25 – George Frederic Pinto, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1805)
• November 2
  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (d. 1849)
  • Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer

Deaths

• January 3 – Baldassare Galuppi, composer (b. 1706)
• February 19 – Johann Christoph Richter, composer (b. 1700)
• May 9 – Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer (b. 1740)
• May 10 – Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer (b. 1748)
• May 15 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, organist and composer (b. 1756)
• June 5 – Gottfried August Homilius, composer (b. 1714)
• August 31 – Pietro Chiari, librettist (b. 1712)
• October 24 – Jean-Jacques Robson, composer (b. 1723)
• November 19 – Bernard de Bury, composer (b. 1720)
• December 8 – Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer (b. 1717)