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Overview of the events of 1785 in music
Overview of the events of 1785 in music
Events
January 1 – Giovanni Paisiello officially leaves his employment at the court of Catherine the Great in Russia, having returned to Italy some months earlier.[1]
January 12 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's Die Entführung aus dem Serail is produced by impresario Pasquale Bondini's company in Dresden.[2]
January 15 – The first performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's six string quartets dedicated to Joseph Haydn (or possibly just three of them) is given in Mozart's own home.[1]
January 21 – Soprano Nancy Storace , who was about to give birth, was replaced as Rosina in a Vienna production of Giovanni Paisiello 's Il barbiere di Siviglia by Luisa Laschi , to great acclaim.[3]
February 7 – Leopold Mozart leaves Munich for Vienna, with a pupil, Heinrich Marchand, in tow.[1]
February 26 – Polish violinist Feliks Janiewicz makes what was probably his debut as a soloist in a concert at the Burgtheater in Vienna.[4]
March 7 – King Ferdinand I of Naples awards a lifetime annual salary of 1,200 ducats to Giovanni Paisiello , on the understanding that the latter writes one new opera every year.[1]
March 28 – Domenico Cimarosa becomes second organist at the Chapel Royal of Naples .[1]
September 19 – Amélie-Julie Candeille makes her Comédie-Française début as a singer.[5]
October 13 – The Lord Chamberlain, James Cecil, Earl of Salisbury , refuses to grant a licence to Giovanni Gallini for his Italian Opera House in London, unless he appoints a Mr. Crawford as deputy manager.[6]
October 26 – Joseph Haydn receives a visit from Venetian revolutionary Francisco de Miranda , to whom he gives a guided tour of Schloss Esterházy .[1]
November 22 – The Hermitage Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia, is officially opened.[1]
Composer John Antes is appointed warder of the Fulneck Moravian Settlement in England[7]
Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine .[8]
Opera composer Michele Mortellari [it ; ca ; cs ] relocates to London from his native Italy.[9]
Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany appoints Filippo Maria Gherardeschi organist and maestro di cappella at the Chiesa Conventuale dei Cavalieri di S Stefano at Pisa.[10]
Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & Konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.[11]
Published popular music
Classical music
Carl Friedrich Abel – 4 Trio Sonatas, WK 98-101 (Op. 16)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 2 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.59
Johann Christian Bach – 2 Symphonies, Op. 18
Ludwig van Beethoven – Three quartets for harpsichord, violin, viola, and cello, in E♭ major, D major, and C major, WoO 36
William Billings – "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me, We Will Go Into The House Of Ye Lord"
William Boyce , Ten Voluntaries
Giuseppe Maria Cambini
6 Flute Quartets, T.145-150
6 Trios for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon, Op. 45
Muzio Clementi – Six piano sonatas, Op. 13
Francois Devienne – Flute Concerto No.3 in G major
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses (comp. 1781, first three published 1785)
Anton Eberl – Symphony in C major
Giuseppe (or Tomasso ) Giordani – Caro Mio Ben
Joseph Haydn
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Double Bass Concerto No.1 in E-flat major
Keyboard Sonata in A major, WeiH 37
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Giovanni Paisiello – Il ritorno di Perseo , R.2.6 (cantata)
Ignaz Pleyel
String Quartet
Symphony in D major, B.126
Johann Schenk – Die Weinlese (singspiel)
John Stanley – "Delusive is the poet's dream"
Gaetano Valeri – 12 Organ Sonatas, Op. 1
Friedrich Witt – Symphony in A major
Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – 3 String Quartets, Op. 3
Opera
Gaetano Andreozzi – Giasone e Medea
Marcello Bernardini – Le donne bisbetiche, o sia L'antiquario fanatico , Teatro Pace, Rome (during carnival).[13]
Pierre-Joseph Candeille – Pizarre, ou La conquête de Pérou , Opéra , Paris (3 May)[14]
Luigi Cherubini – La finta principessa , King's Theatre, London (9 April)[15]
Domenico Cimarosa – La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia
Prosper-Didier Deshayes – Le Faux serment
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf –
Der Hufschmied (Der gelehrte Hufschmied ) (German version, text translated by J. C. Kaffka, of Il maniscalco , 1775), Breslau (13 May)[16]
25 000 Gulden oder im Dunkeln ist gut munkeln , Vienna[citation needed ]
Robert Jephson – Campaign, or Love in the East Indies , Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (12 May)[17]
Thomas Linley –
Michele Mortellari [it ; ca ; cs ] –
Giovanni Paisiello – La grotta di Trofonio , R.1.69
Ignaz Pleyel – Ifigenia in Aulide
Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Artemisia
Antonio Salieri – La Grotta di Trofonio
Giuseppe Sarti – I finti eredi
William Shield –
The Nunnery , Covent Garden, London (12 April)[21]
The Choleric Fathers , Covent Garden, London (10 November)[22]
Omai, or A Trip Round the World , Covent Garden, London (20 December)[23]
Stephen Storace – Gli sposi malcontenti , Burgtheater , Vienna (1 June)[24]
Births
February 2 – Isabella Colbran , coloratura soprano and composer (died 1845)
March 6 – Karol Kurpiński , Polish composer (died 1857)
March 19 – Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann , composer (died 1853)
April 4 – Bettina Brentano , composer and writer (died 1859)
April 19 – Alexandre Pierre François Boëly , composer (died 1858)
August 18 – Friedrich Wieck , piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (died 1873)
September 5 – Thomas Adams , organist and composer (died 1858)
September 11 – Alpheus Babcock , American piano maker (died 1842)
November 2 – Friedrich Kalkbrenner , pianist and composer (died 1849)
Zofia Dmuszewska , Polish actor and opera singer (died 1807)
Deaths
References
^ a b c d e f g MusicAndHistory:1785 Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today Accessed 21 April 2013
^ Peter Branscombe, "Bondini, Pasquale", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Christopher Raeburn, "Laschi [Mombelli], Luisa", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Jacek Berwaldt and Margaret Mikulska, "Janiewica, Feliks [Yaniewicz, Felix] ", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Julian Rushton , Julie Anne Sadie , Robert Adelson, and Jacqueline Letzter, "Candeille, Julie", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Anonymous, untitled notice in the Times , no. 251 (Friday, 14 October 1785): 2C.
^ Karl Kroeger, "Antes, John [Johann]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Richard Crawford and Nym Cooke, "Belcher, Supply", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Marita P. McClymonds, “Mortellari, Michele”, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
^ Howard Brofsky and Stefano Barandoni, "Gherardeschi, Filippo Maria", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Chappell White, "Strinasacchi {Strina Sacchi], Regina", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ a b c "Music Just Published, by Longman and Broderip" (classified advertisement), The Times , no. 28 (Wednesday, 2 February 1785): 4A
^ Raoul Meloncelli and Marita P. McClymonds, "Bernardini, Marcello [Marcello da Capua]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Julian Rushton , "Candeille, Pierre-Joseph", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
^ Anon., "Italian Opera", Times , no. 90 (Monday, 11 April 1785): 2C.
^ Margaret Grave and Jay Lane, "Dittersdorf, Carl Ditters von [Ditters, Carl]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
^ Anon. "Favourite AIRS in the New Comic Opera", Times , no. 119 (Saturday, 14 May): 3B.
^ Gwilym Beechey and Linda Troost, "Linley: (1) Thomas Linley (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
^ Anon., "Theatre-Royal Drury-Lane (Never Performed) By his Majesty's Company", The Times , no. 298 (Thursday, 8 December): 1A; Gwilym Beechey and Linda Troost, "Linley: (1) Thomas Linley (i)", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
^ a b Marita P. McClymonds, "Mortellari, Michele", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , edited by Stanley Sadie (London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992).
^ Anon., “Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden", The Times , no. 90 (Monday, 11 April): 1A; Anon., "Fable to the Comic Opera of The Nunnery", The Times , no. 93 (14 April): 3A.
^ Anon., "Shield's Music", The Times , no. 279 (Wednesday, 16 November): 2D.
^ Anon., "Theatre: A New Pantomime, Entitled Omai", The Times no. 310 (Thursday 22 December): 3A.
^ Jane Girdham, "Storace, Stephen (John Seymour)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).