1793 in music
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Events
- September 25 – The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.
- Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11
- Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, by Prof. Joseph Jowett, probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch.
Popular Music
Classical Music
- Jan Ladislav Dussek – The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Op. 23
- Joseph Haydn
- String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
- Variations in F minor
- Michael Haydn – Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae
- Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 38
- Paul Wranitzky
- Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24
- Six String Quartets, Op. 23
Opera
- Felice Alessandri – Virginia
- Samuel Arnold – The Mountaineers
- Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa
- François-Adrien Boïeldieu – La fille coupable
- Francesco Gardi – Pirro
- Johann Baptist Henneberg – Die Waldmänner
- Étienne Méhul – Le jeune sage et le vieux fou
Births
- January 18 – William Henry Havergal, hymn-writer and composer (d. 1870)
- February 14 – William Crathern, composer of sacred music (d. c.1851)
- February 27 – Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (d. 1861)
- August 21 – Peter Casper Krossing, composer (d. 1838)
- September 2 – Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (d. 1878)
Deaths
- January 24 (bur.) – Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (b. 1696)
- March 17 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (b. 1738)
- May 3 – Martin Gerbert, music writer (b. 1720)
- May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer (b. 1722)
- September 10 – Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, opera composer (b. 1742)
- September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer (b. 1734)
- October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer (b. 1726)
- October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (b. 1710)
- date unknown – Philip Phile, violinist and composer (b. c.1734)