title: 1789 in music
text: # 1789 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
  * Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
  * Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
  * Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
  * Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
  * Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
  * Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
  * Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Ludwig van Beethoven – Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
  * William Hamilton Bird – The Oriental Miscellany
  * William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
  * Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quintet in G major, Kr.190
  * Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
  * Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonatas No. 4–6, Op. 10
  * John Gunn – 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello
  * Joseph Haydn
     * Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
     * Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
  * Leopold Anton Kozeluch – Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
  * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
     * Clarinet Quintet in A
     * Un moto di gioia mi sento, K.579
  * Vasilj Alekseevič Paškevič – Muzyka operyi Komitscheskoi Fewej
  * Ignaz Pleyel
     * String Quintet in F major, B.285
     * 3 Flute Quartets, B.381–383
     * 6 Violin Duos, B.513–518
  * Karl Leopold Röllig – Kleine Tonstücke für die Glasharmonika
  * Daniel Gottlob Türk – Klaviersonaten, größtenteils für Kenner
  * Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.16 in E minor
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Domenico Cimarosa – I Due Baroni
  * André Grétry – Raoul Barbe-Bleue
  * Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne – Nephté
  * Giovanni Paisiello – Nina
  * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Brenno; Claudine von Villa Bella
  * Antonio Salieri – Il Pastor fido; La Cifra; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
  * Stephen Storace – The Haunted Tower
  * Paul Wranitzky – Oberon, König der Elfen
  
  ## Methods and theory writings
  
  * André Grétry – Mémoires, ou essai sur la musique
  * John Gunn – The Theory and Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
  * Manuel da Paixão Ribeiro – Nova arte de viola
  * Luigi Antonio Sabbatini – Elementi teorici della musica
  * Daniel Gottlob Türk
     * Klavierscule
     * Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 30 – George Augustus Kollmann, composer
  * February 1 – Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer (d. 1861)
  * February 8 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer (d. 1878)
  * February 15 – Friedrich Fesca, composer (d. 1826)
  * May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German opera singer and actress (d.1828)
  * June 27 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (d. 1860)
  * September 1 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
  * October 18 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer
  * October 24 – Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer (d. 1855)
  * October 26 – Joseph Mayseder
  * October 28 – Johann Schneider, composer
  * November 13 – Martin de Ron, composer
  * December 8 – John Fawcett, composer (d. 1867)
  * December 14 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (d. 1831)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 1 – Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
  * January 2 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
  * January 20 – Johann Christoph Oley, composer
  * February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
  * May 10 – Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
  * May 12 – Robert Bremner, music collector and publisher (born 1713)
  * June 7 – Václav Jan Kopřiva (b. 1708)
  * June 14 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
  * July 4 – Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poet and conductor (b. 1729)
  * July 15 – Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
  * September 11 – Luka Sorkočević, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
  * September 12 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 1709)
  * October 24 – Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
  * date unknown
     * Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)
     * Andreas Lidl, British composer (born c. 1740)
  