1791 in music
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The year 1791 in music involved some significant events.
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[edit] Events
- Joseph Haydn is brought to London by Johann Peter Salomon.
[edit] Classical music
- Franz Anton Hoffmeister – String Quartet in F
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 96 in D "Miracle"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr – Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn
[edit] Opera
- Marcello Bernardini – L'amore per incanto
- Luigi Cherubini – Lodoïska
- Étienne Méhul – Alonzo et Cora
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) first performed in Vienna (libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La clemenza di Tito first performed in Prague (Estates Theatre) (libretto by Metastasio)
- William Shield – The Woodman
[edit] Births
- January 28 – Ferdinand Hérold
- February 20 – Carl Czerny, composer
- March 9 – Nicolas Levasseur, operatic bass
- May 11 – Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer
- May 29 – Pietro Romani
- July 26 – Francisco José Debali, composer
- September 5 – Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
- October 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Grund, composer
- October 31 – Ferdinand Huber
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 – Frantisek Kotzwara, double bassist and composer (b. 1730) (erotic asphyxiation)
- February 5 – John Beard, operatic tenor (b. c. 1717)
- March 22 – Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (b. 1738)
- April 4 – Elisabeth Lillström, soprano (b. 1717)
- May 14 – Francesca Lebrun, singer and composer (b. 1756)
- August 12 – Isabella Young, operatic mezzo-soprano and organist
- August 25 – Pietro Domenico Paradisi, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1707)
- October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (b. 1710)
- December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (b. 1756)
- date unknown – Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)
