title: 1783 in music
text: # 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)
  