1799 in music
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[edit] Events
- Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.
[edit] Classical music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata Pathetique; Piano Sonata No. 10 in G Major Op. 14 No. 2
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
- Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funebre
[edit] Opera
- Étienne Méhul - Adrien, Ariodant
- Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
- Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle
[edit] Births
- April 5 – Vincenzo Fioravanti, composer
- October 15 – August Ferdinand Haeser, composer
- 31 October – Maria Frederica von Stedingk composer
[edit] Deaths
- February 18 – Maurus Haberhauer, composer
- May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer (b. 1741)
- May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1724)
- June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist (b. 1739)
- August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer (b. 1737)
- September 20 – Polly Young, soprano , composer and keyboard player, 50
- October 24 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer (b. 1739)
- Narciso Casanovas, composer (b. 1747)
- Marija Zubova, composer (b. 1749)
