1799 in music
# 1799 in music

## Events

* Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"); Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2)
* Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody
* Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
* Antonio Salieri – "Der Tyroler Landsturm", secular cantata for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, double choir, orchestra and speaker
* Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funèbre
* Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto in G major, WoO 9

## Opera

* Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
* Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
* Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

## Births

* February 25 – Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, music theorist (died 1858)
* March 21 – Charles Mayer, pianist and composer (died 1862)
* April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (died 1860)
* May 26 – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, novelist and lyricist (died 1837)
* May 27 – Fromental Halévy, composer (died 1862)
* May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879)
* June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839)
* September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869)
* October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868)
* December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)

## Deaths

* March 28 – Bendix Friedrich Zinck I, composer (born 1715)
* April 1 – Narcís Casanoves i Bertran, composer (born 1747)
* April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
* May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
* May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
* June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
* June 18 – Johann Andre, composer (born 1741)
* August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
* September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
* October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
* October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
* date unknown
   * Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747)
   * Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)
