1794 in music

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Events

• Joseph Haydn begins his second visit to London

Classical music

• Joseph Eybler – Christmas Oratorio
• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphonies 100 in G "Military" and 101 in D "Clock"
  • Piano Sonata in E-flat, Hob XVI:52

Opera

• Luigi Cherubini - Eliza
• Friedrich Heinrich Himmel – Il primo navigatore
• Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo
• Étienne Méhul - Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine

Births

• January 6 – Kašpar Mašek, composer (d. 1873)
• April 7 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, tenor
• May 23 – Ignaz Moscheles, composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
• August 10 – Princess Amalie of Saxony, composer (d. 1870)
• September 10 – François Benoist, organist and composer (d. 1878)
• September 29 – William Michael Rooke, violinist and composer (d. 1849)
• October 4 – Justina Casagli, operatic soprano
• October 13 – Anselm Hüttenbrenner, composer (d. 1868)
• December 6 – Luigi Lablache, operatic bass

Deaths

• April 26 – Johan Foltmar, composer (b. 1714)
• July 17 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, composer (b. 1749) (executed)
• August 25 – Leopold August Abel, composer (b. 1717)
• November 9 – Hryhorii Skovoroda, poet and composer (b. 1722)