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Overview of the events of 1791 in music
Overview of the events of 1791 in music
The year 1791 in music involved some significant events.
Events
January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England at the invitation of London resident impresario Johann Peter Salomon ; here his concerts are huge successes. On March 11, the first of his London symphonies , Symphony No. 96 , is premièred at the Hanover Square Rooms . On July 8 he is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford and probably conducts his Symphony No. 92 in the Sheldonian Theatre as part of the ceremonials.[ 1] [ 2] Mid-July – An emissary of Count Franz von Walsegg commissions a Requiem Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart .
August 24 – Official opening of the Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo , Lombardy, with a production of Pietro Metastasio 's Didone abbandonata Ferdinando Bertoni , Giacomo Rampini , Johann Gottlieb Naumann , Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giovanni Paisiello .September 6 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's opera seria La clemenza di Tito Titus ", K. 621, with libretto adapted by Caterino Mazzolà after Metastasio ) at the Estates Theatre in Prague with Mozart conducting and the castrato Domenico Bedini playing Sesto. It has been written in around 18 days (after most of The Magic Flute has been completed) to a commission by Domenico Guardasoni to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia, after Salieri had declined the commission.September 30 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Singspiel The Magic Flute Die Zauberflöte , K. 620) at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in suburban Vienna with Mozart conducting, probably from the keyboard,[ 3] Emanuel Schikaneder playing Papageno and Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer playing the Queen of the Night.December 5 (01:00) – Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , age 35, at his home in Vienna of fever; on a mild and misty December 7, following a funeral service in St. Stephen's Cathedral , he is buried in a common grave (as customary at this time) in St. Marx Cemetery in the presence of Salieri , Süssmayr , van Swieten (his patron) and two other musicians.[ 4]
Classical music
Muzio Clementi
Piano Sonata, Op. 26
3 Piano Trios, Op. 27 Franz Anton Hoffmeister – 3 String Quartets, Op. 14Joseph Haydn
Leopold Kozeluch – String Quartets, Op. 33Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B♭ Sehnsucht nach dem Frühling , K.596Im Frühlingsanfang , K.597Das Kinderspiel , K.598Fantasia in F minor, K.608
Per questa bella mano 8 Variations on "Ein Weib ist das herrlichste Ding", K.613
Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello (K6 . 617) and Adagio in C for Glass Harmonica (K6 . 617a)Ave verum corpus motet in D major (K. 618)Clarinet Concerto in A major (K. 622)Horn Concerto No. 1 in D major (K. 412)Menuets (K. 599, 601 & 604)
String Quintet No. 6 in E♭ Freimaurerkantate: "Laut verkünde unsre Freude" ("Kleine Freimaurer-Kantate , Little Masonic Cantata"; K. 623)Requiem Johann Christoph Oley – Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir Maria Hester Park – Keyboard Concerto in E-flat Major, Op. 6Ignaz Pleyel
Symphonie concertante in B-flat major, B.112
Symphony in F major, B.140A
Symphony in D minor, B.147
3 Keyboard Trios, B.440–442 Franz Xaver Süssmayr – Concerto Movement in D major for basset hornPaul Wranitzky – Symphonies, Op. 16
Opera
Methods and theory writings
Births
January 6 – José Melchor Gomis , Spanish composer (died 1836)January 20 – Tommaso Grossi , lyricist and poet (died 1853)January 28 – Ferdinand Hérold , French operatic composer (d. 1833)February 10 – Henry Hart Milman , librettist and historian (died 1868)February 20
March 9 – Nicolas Levasseur , French operatic bass (d. 1871)May 11 – Jan Václav Voříšek , Bohemian pianist, organist and composer (d. 1825)May 29 – Pietro Romani, Italian singing teacher (d. 1877)June 9 – John Howard Payne , librettist and actor (died 1852)June 10 – Václav Hanka , librettist and archivist (died 1861)July 26
August 25 – Christian Karl Josias Bunsen , composer and diplomat (died 1860)September 5 – Giacomo Meyerbeer , born Jacob Liebmann Beer, German-born operatic composer (d. 1864)October 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Grund , German composer (d. 1874)October 31 – Ferdinand Huber , Swiss composer (d. 1863)December 24 – Eugène Scribe , librettist and dramatist (died 1861)
Deaths
January 13 – Antoine Huberty , composer and musician (born c. 1722)February 2 – Frantisek Kotzwara , Czech-born double bassist and composer (b. 1730) (erotic asphyxiation)February 5 – John Beard , English operatic tenor and actor-manager (b. c. 1716/17)March 22 – Carlo Besozzi , Italian oboist and composer (b. 1738)April 4 – Elisabeth Lillström , Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1717)May 9 – Francis Hopkinson , composer and judge (born 1737)May 14 – Francesca Lebrun , German singer and composer (b. 1756)August 12 – Isabella Young , English operatic mezzo-soprano and organistAugust 25 – Pietro Domenico Paradisi , Italian harpsichordist and composer (b. 1707)October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini , Italian composer (b. 1710)December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer (b. 1756)December? – Johann August Just , German composer (born c. 1750)
date unknown – Giuseppe Demachi , composer and violinist (born 1732)
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