1782 in music
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Events
- March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
- July 16 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
- August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber.
- September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Cora och Alonzo.
- William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
- Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.
Published popular music
- Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)
Classical music
- Luigi Boccherini
- Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
- Symphony in E flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
- Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
- Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
- Symphony in E flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Johannes Matthias Sperger - String Symphony in C
- Giovanni Battista Viotti – Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, G 44
Opera
- Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
- François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
- Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail
- Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia
Births
- January 29 – Daniel Auber, composer
- April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer
- July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer
- September 26 – Jacques-Fereol Mazas, composer
- October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, violinist
Deaths
- January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
- April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
- April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
- July 15 - Robert Wainwright, composer
- August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
- August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
- September 16 – Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
- October – John Parry, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
- date unknown – Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)