1784 in music
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Events
    
- January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.[1]
 - January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.[1]
 - February 9 – The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.[1]
 - March – 28-year-old Mozart gives the first performances of his Piano Concerto No. 15 at the Trattnerhof and Burgtheater in Vienna.
 - April 24 – Mozart writes to his father Leopold, recommending the work of newcomer Ignaz Pleyel.[1]
 - April 29 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and violinist Regina Strinasacchi perform Mozart's Sonata in B-flat for Violin and Keyboard (K.454) for the first time, in the presence of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.
 - May 27 – June 5 – Handel Commemoration concerts in Westminster Abbey, London.
 - June 13 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.
 - August 17 – Luigi Boccherini is given a pay rise of 12000 reals by his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón.[1]
 - August 28 – In Vienna, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger's Mass in E flat is performed for the first time, with the orchestral arrangement replaced by organ accompaniment, in accordance with the preferences of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor.[1]
 - December 11 – Mozart is received into the Masonic lodge "Beneficence".
 - The first opera is mounted at the unfinished Teatro Nuovo in Bergamo, Lombardy, Giuseppe Sarti's Medonte, re di Epiro.
 
Classical music
    
- Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – Journal d'orgue 1–9
 
- Niel Gow – A Collection of Strathspey Reels, etc.
 - Joseph Haydn 
- 6 Divertimentos, Hob.IV:6–11
 - Keyboard Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI:40 (no. 54)
 - Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, Hob.XVI:41 (no. 55)
 - Keyboard Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI:42 (no. 56)
 - 24 Lieder, Hob.XXVIa:13–24 (second book)
 
 - Michael Haydn – Symphony in B-flat major; Symphony in C major
 - Sabine Hitzelberger – Für fülende Seelen am Klavier
 - Edward Jones – Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including "Deck the Halls"
 - Leopold Kozeluch – Keyboard Concerto in F major, P.IV:1
 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 14
 - Piano Concerto No. 15
 
 - Giovanni Paisiello – Six quartets, Op. 1
 - Joseph Reicha – Cello Concerto in D major
 - Giovanni Battista Viotti – Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor
 
Opera
    
- Pasquale Anfossi – Issipile, May 8, King's Theatre, London.[1]
 - Luigi Cherubini – L'Idalide
 - Domenico Cimarosa 
- L'apparenza inganna
 - Artaserse
 - I due supposti conti
 - I matrimoni impensati
 - L'Olimpiade, July 10, Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.[1]
 - La vanità delusa
 
 - André Grétry
 - Joseph Haydn – Armida
 - Thomas Linley – The Spanish Rivals
 - Antonio Salieri
- Les Danaïdes
 - Il ricco d'un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
 
 - Andrea Luchesi – Ademira
 - Giovanni Paisiello – Il Re Teodoro
 - Niccolò Piccinni – Diane et Endymion
 - Antonio Sacchini – Dardanus
 
Births
    
- January 1 – William Beale, composer and organist (died 1854)
 - January 27 – Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer (died 1851)
 - January 29 – Ferdinand Ries, composer
 - February 3 – John Fane, composer and diplomat
 - February 27 – Job Plimpton, composer (died 1864)
 - March 25 – François-Joseph Fétis, Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher (died 1871)
 - April 8 – Dionisio Aguado, guitarist and composer (died 1849)
 - June 14 – Francesco Morlacchi, opera composer (died 1841)
 - July 27 – George Onslow, composer (died 1853)
 - August 5 – Louis Spohr, composer, violinist and conductor (died 1859)
 - August 23
- Jeanette Wässelius, operatic soprano (died 1853)
 - Henriette Löfman, composer (died 1836)
 
 - October 15 – Thomas Hastings, composer (died 1872)
 - November 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
 - date unknown – Samuel Simms, organist and composer (died 1868)
 
Deaths
    
- March 4 – Ann Cargill, opera singer (born 1760) (drowned)
 - July 1 – Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer (born 1710)
 - August – Louis Anseaume, opera librettist
 - August 6 – Karl Kohaut, lutenist and composer (born 1726)
 - August 4 – Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (born 1706)
 - September
- John Bennett, organist and composer (born c.1735)
 - Maria Linley, singer (born 1763)
 
 - September 12 – Manuel Blasco de Nebra, organist and composer (born 1750)
 - October 5 (or 1785) – Antonín Kammel, violinist and composer (born 1730)
 - November 6 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (born 1762)
 - date unknown
- John Pixell, poet and composer (born 1725)
 - Yekaterina Sinyavina, pianist and composer (date of birth unknown)
 
 
References
    
- MusicAndHistory:1764 Archived 2013-06-29 at archive.today Accessed 21 April 2013
 
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