1796 in music

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Events

• The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.

Classical Music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
• Muzio Clementi – Concerto for piano in C major
• Joseph Haydn – Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War")

Opera

• Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
• Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
• Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
• Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest

Births

• February 17 – Giovanni Pacini, composer
• June 14 – Mathilda d'Orozco, composer
• July 23 – Franz Berwald, composer
• July 28 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer
• August 25 – James Lick, piano builder
• September 3 – Henriette Widerberg, soprano
• November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer

Deaths

• January 1 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician (b. 1735)
• March 19 – Stephen Storace, composer (b. 1762)
• June 8 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer (b. 1716)
• September 22 – George Wilhelm Gruber, composer
• October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso
• December 30 – Jean-Baptiste Lamoyne, composer