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.
May 16 – La Fenice in Venice is inaugurated with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera I giuochi d'Agrigento.
July 11–14 – The Belfast Harp Festival in Ireland brings together and records the work of most of the remaining traditional players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken^[1] and Edward Bunting transcribes the music.

"Ye brave sons of Britain" by William Parsons
"Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Claude Balbastre – Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ça-ira
Ludwig van Beethoven
- "An Laura", for voice and piano, WoO 112
- "An Minna", for voice and piano, WoO 115
- Rondino for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major, WoO 25
- Duo for 2 Flutes, WoO 26
- Six Variations on a Swiss song for piano or harp, WoO 64
- Trinklied, WoO 109
- Variations on an original theme in E♭ major for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 44
- Octet for winds in E♭ major, Op. 103
Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Trios, Op. 28
Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Concerto No.4, Op. 17
Josef Gelinek – 6 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'
Joseph Haydn
- Symphony No. 94
- Symphony No. 97
- Symphony No. 98
- 12 Minuets, Hob.IX:11
- 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150
Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no. 1
Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphonie funebre in C minor
Friedrich Wilhelm Pannenberg – Zwölf Sleiver und zwey Quadrille
Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
- Symphony in D major, StWV 128
- Symphony in B-flat major, StWV 129
- 3 Violin Sonatas, StWV 198

John Wall Callcott – An Explanation of the Notes, Marks, Words, etc. Used in Music
Johann Adam Hiller
- Anweisung zum Violinspielen
- Kurze und erleichterte Anweisung zum Singen
Christian Kalkbrenner – Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte der Tonkunst
Andrew Law – The Art of Singing

February 29 – Johann Andreas Stein, maker of keyboard instruments (born 1728)
June 28 – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (born 1754)^[4]
June 30 – Antonio Rosetti, double bass player and composer (born c. 1750)
October 11 – Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer (born 1728)^[5]
November 29 (or 30) – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer (b. 1735)
December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer ("the Swedish Mozart") (born 1756)^[6]
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)

^ Lanier, Sara C. (1999). ""It is new-strung and shan't be heard": nationalism and memory in the Irish harp tradition". British Journal of Ethnomusicology. 8: 1–26. doi:10.1080/09681229908567279.
^ Anon., "Academy of Ancient Music", The Oxford Companion to Music, edited by Alison Latham (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002). ISBN 9780198662129.
^ Henry Sutherland Edwards (1894). Gioachino Rossini, 1792-1861, and His Successors. Sampson Low, Marston & Company. p. 3-4.
^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. p. 1688.
^ Patricia Howard (2014). The Modern Castrato: Gaetano Guadagni and the Coming of a New Operatic Age. Oxford University Press. p. 189. ISBN 978-0-19-936520-3.
^ Burnett R. Toskey (1983). Concertos for Violin and Viola: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. B.R. Toskey. p. 451. ISBN 978-0-9601054-8-9.