1792 in music

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Events

• April 13 – Joseph Martin Kraus's Symphonie funèbre is played at the funeral of Gustavus III of Sweden.

Popular Music

• "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
• "The Irish Washerwoman" trad. Irish

Classical Music

• Joseph Haydn – Surprise Symphony
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no 1

Opera

• Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt – Telemak på Calypsos
• Domenico Cimarosa – Il Matrimonio Segreto
• Giuseppe Farinelli – I dotorato di Pulcinella
• Louis Emmanuel Jadin – Amélie de Montfort
• Etienne Méhul – Stratonice

Births

• February 29 – Gioacchino Rossini, composer (died 1868)
• March 11 – Natale Abbadia, composer (died 1861)
• August 28 – Karolina Bock, singer, actress, dancer, drama teacher
• October 2 – Cipriani Potter, pianist and composer (died 1871)
• October 13 – Moritz Hauptmann, writer and composer (died 1868)
• date unknown – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer (died 1853)

Deaths

• February 29 – Johann Andreas Stein, maker of keyboard instruments (born 1728)
• June 28 – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (born 1754)
• June 30 – Antonio Rosetti, double bass player and composer (born c. 1750)
• October 11 – Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer (born 1728)
• November 29 (or 30) – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (b. 1735)
• December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer ("the Swedish Mozart") (born 1756)
• December 18 – Johann van Beethoven, singer, father of Ludwig van Beethoven (born 1740)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Battista Casali, choir-master and choral composer (b. 1715)
  • Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori, composer of Hindustani classical music (b. 1742)