title: 1784 in music
text: # 1784 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 5 – In Paris, Antonio Salieri signs a contract with the Opéra for a work entitled Les Danaïdes.
  * January 7 – Composer Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny marries Amélie de Villemagne.
  * February 9 – The Piano Concerto No. 14 becomes the first entry in the catalogue of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  * Luigi Cherubini – L'Idalide
  * Domenico Cimarosa
     * L'apparenza inganna
     * Artaserse
     * I due supposti conti
     * I matrimoni impensati
     * L'Olimpiade, July 10, Teatro Eretenio, Vicenza.
     * La vanità delusa
  * André Grétry
     * L'épreuve villageoise
     * Richard Coeur de Lion
  * 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)
  * October 16 – Karl Keller, composer and flautist (died 1855)
  * November 7 – Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner, German pianist and composer
  * date unknown – Samuel Simms, organist and composer (died 1868)
  * November 28 – Ferdinand Ries, composer and friend of Beethoven (died 1838)
  
  ## 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)
  