1786 in music

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Events

• November 7 – America's oldest singing society is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
• In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
• In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument.
• Georg Joseph Vogler is appointed Kapellmeister to King Gustav III of Sweden.

Classical music

• Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Der Apotheker und der Doktor (singspiel)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Piano Concerto No. 23 in A
  • Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor
  • Symphony No. 38 in D "Prague"
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 82 in C ("Bear")

Opera

• Gioacchino Albertini – Virginia
• Bonifazio Asioli – Le nozze in villa
• Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky – Le Faucon
• Nicolas Dalayrac – Nina
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
  • Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (first performed in Vienna, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte).
• Antonio Salieri
  • Les Horaces
  • Prima la musica e poi le parole
• Giuseppe Sarti – Armida e Rinaldo

Published popular music

• First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection

Births

• January 3 – Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
• June 21 – Charles Edward Horn, singer and composer (d. 1849)
• September 11 – Friedrich Kuhlau, composer (d. 1832
• November 18
  • Carl Maria von Weber, composer (or December 18)
  • Sir Henry Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
• December 20 – Pietro Raimondi, composer
• date unknown
  • Konstantinos Nikolopoulos, composer (d. 1841)
  • Elena Pucić-Sorkočević, composer (d. 1865)

Deaths

• January 14 – Michael Arne, composer (b. c. 1740)
• March 7 – Frantisek Benda, composer (b. 1709)
• May 19 – John Stanley, composer (b. 1712)
• July 22 – Vaclav Kalous, composer (b. 1715)
• July 29 – Franz Asplmayr, composer (b. 1728)
• August 17 – King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer (b. 1712)
• September – Giovanni Battista Guadagnini, musical instrument maker (b. 1711)
• October 6 – Antonio Sacchini, composer (b. 1730)
• date unknown
  • Karl von Ordóñez, composer (b. 1734)
  • Sophia Baddeley, actress and singer (b. 1745)
  • Jan Tomáš Kuzník, composer and music teacher (b. 1716)