1790 in music

List of years in music       (table)
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Events

• January 21 - Mozart holds a rehearsal of his new opera, Cosi fan Tutte, in the presence of his friends Joseph Haydn and Michael Puchberg.
• Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven meet for the first time.
• Georg Joseph Vogler brings his invention, the orchestrion, to London.
• Beginnings of the Beijing Opera.
• Following the death of Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, his son disbands the orchestra and the players disperse.
• August Duranowski becomes leader of the Brussels opera orchestra.

Opera

• Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Der Teufel als Hydraulikus
• Étienne Méhul – Euphrosine et Corradin ou le Tyran corrigé
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Così fan tutte (at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II first produced at Vienna in 1790)
• Giovanni Paisiello – Nina (libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi)

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Cantata on the Death of Joseph II
• Johann Ladislaus Dussek – Piano Trio
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 64, "Tost"
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Quartet in D
• Claus Schall – Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra in D major

Published popular music

• James Hook – "Rosy Hannah"

Births

• February 11 – Ignaz Assmayer, composer (d. 1862)
• February 16 – Chretien Urhan, composer
• March 15 – Nicola Vaccai, composer
• July 23 – Anna Sofia Sevelin, alto
• October 10 – Georg Gerson, composer (d. 1825)
• October 17 – August Ferdinand Anacker, composer (d. 1854)
• October 30 – Karol Lipiński, violinist and composer (d. 1861)
• November 7 – Luigi Legnani, guitarist and composer (d. 1877)
• November 11 – Joseph Kreutzer, violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1840)
• date unknown – Ghanam Krishna Iyer, Carnatic music composer (d. 1854)

Deaths

• February 14 – Capel Bond, composer, 59
• February 19 – Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz, composer, 47
• February 21 – Johann Friedrich Kloffler, conductor and composer, 64
• June 25- Lovisa Augusti, opera singer, 33
• September 3 – Thomas Norris, composer
• September 28 – Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, patron of Joseph Haydn
• December 16 – Ludwig August Lebrun, composer, 38
• date unknown
  • François-Henri Clicquot, organ builder
  • Simoni Dall Croubelis, composer
  • Lucile Grétry, composer, 18