1783 in music
# 1783 in music

## Events

* August 23 – Maria Anna Mozart marries Johann Baptist Franz von Berchtold.
* September 24 – The Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, opens with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello’s opera Il mondo della luna.
* John Broadwood patents a piano pedal in England.

## Classical music

* Johann Adolph Hasse - Missa Ultima in g minor
* Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 17
* Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – Mass in D major
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – 2 Sonaten, 2 Fantasien und 3 Rondos für Kenner und Liebhaber, Wq.58
* Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, WoO 47 ("Kurfuerstensonaten") in E-flat, F, and D
* Muzio Clementi
   * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.9
   * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op.10
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Six Symphonies after Ovid's Metamorphoses
* Jane Mary Guest – 6 Sonatas, Op. 1
* Joseph Haydn
   * Baryton Trio Hob. XI:101, 103, and 108
   * Cello Concerto in D
* Michael Haydn – Symphony in E-flat major
* Anton Kraft – 3 Cello Sonatas, Op. 2
* Joseph Martin Kraus – String Quartets, Op.1 (published, Berlin: J.J. Hummel, Plate 561)
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   * Luci care, luci belle, K.346/439a
   * Mia speranza adorata, K.416
   * Vorrei spiegarvi, o Dio, K.418
   * Duo for Violin and Viola, K.423
   * Duo for Violin and Viola, K.424
   * Symphony No. 36 in C major, K. 425
   * Great Mass in C minor, K. 427
   * Così dunque tradisci, K.432/421a
   * Ecco quel fiero istante, K.436
   * Mi lagnerò tacendo, K.437
   * Due pupille amabili, K.439
   * Country Dance in G major, K.610
* Giovanni Paisiello – La passione di Gesù Cristo
* Antonio Rosetti – Sextet in D major, M.B24/II:19
* Daniel Gottlob Türk – 12 Leichte Klaviersonaten
* Giovanni Battista Viotti
   * Concerto for Piano No. 7 in G
   * Violin Concerto No.10 in B-flat major
* Samuel Wesley – Magnificat

## Opera

* Felice Alessandri – Artaserse
* Pasquale Anfossi – La finta ammalata
* Domenico Cimarosa
   * I due baroni di Rocca Azzurra
   * Oreste
   * La villana riconosciuta
* Vincenzo Fabrizi – I tre gobbi rivali
* André Grétry – La Caravane du Caire
* Niccolò Piccinni – Didon
* Antonio Sacchini – Renaud
* William Shield – The Poor Soldier

## Published popular music

* "I had a horse, I had nae mair", "The Rigs o' Barley", and other songs by Robert Burns

## Methods and theory writings

* Anton Bemetzrieder
   * Abstract of the Talents and Knowledge of a Musician
   * New Lessons for the Harpsichord
* Johann Michael Weissbeck – Protestationschrift oder Exemplarische Widerlegung
* Georg Friedrich Wolf – Kurzer aber deutlicher Unterricht im Klavierspielen

## Births

* January 12 – Erik Gustaf Geijer, writer and composer (d. 1847)
* January 20 – Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
* January 26 – Helmina von Chézy, librettist (d. 1856)
* February 9 – Vasily Zhukovsky, librettist and poet (died 1852)
* February 15 – Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
* March 8 – Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, German composer (died 1846)
* March 26 – Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
* April 21 – Reginald Heber, librettist and clergyman (died 1826)
* May 10 – Niccola Benvenuti, composer
* May 14 – Jacques Jules Bouffil, composer and musician (died 1868)
* May 22 – Thomas Forbes Walmisley, composer (died 1866)
* June 29 – August Alexander Klengel, pianist, organist and composer
* September 23 – Jane Taylor, librettist and poet (died 1824)
* October 13 – Frantiszek Soltyk, composer
* December 14 – Johann Christoph Kienlen, composer
* December 28 – Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg, composer
* date unknown – Charles-François-Jean-Baptiste Moreau, French librettist (died 1832)

## Deaths

* January 5 – Friedrich Wilhelm Riedt, flautist, music theorist and composer (born 1710)
* January 10 – Phanuel Bacon, librettist and writer (born 1700)
* January 14 – Giacobbe Cervetto, cellist and composer (born 1682)
* January 31 – Caffarelli, castrato singer (born 1710)
* February 10 – James Nares, composer (born 1715)
* February 21 – Richard Duke, violin maker (born 1718)
* March 1 – Thomas Lowe, tenor (born c.1719)
* March 23 – Gaspard Fritz, composer
* April 7 – Ignaz Holzbauer, composer (born 1711)
* May 11 – Juliane Reichardt, composer and pianist (born 1752)
* May 18 – Lucrezia Aguiari, coloratura soprano (born 1741)
* July 27 – Johann Kirnberger, music theorist/violist (born 1721)
* October 7 – William Tans'ur, composer, teacher and arranger of hymn tunes (born c.1706)
* October 29 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, music theorist and philosopher (born 1717)
* November 3 – Charles Collé, songwriter (born 1709)
* December 16 – Johann Adolph Hasse, singer, composer and music teacher (born 1699)
* December 20 – Antonio Soler, composer (born 1729)
