1780 in music
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[edit] Events
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.
- The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.
[edit] Classical music
- Luigi Boccherini - Musica notturna delle strade di Madrid
- Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Job (oratorio)
[edit] Opera
- Domenico Cimarosa - Le donne rivali
- Franz Danzi - Cleopatra
- André Grétry - Aucassin et Nicolette
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Zaide (unfinished)
- Giovanni Paisiello - Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Niccolò Piccinni - Atys
- Bernardo Porta - La Principessa d'Amalfi
[edit] Births
- January 14 - François-Joseph Dizi
- February 9 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
- March 10 - Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
- May 22 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
- May 28 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
- June 18 - Michael Henkel, composer
- July 25 - Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
- November 2 - Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu, soprano
- November 3 - Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
- November 16 - Robert Archibald Smith, composer
- November 22 - Conradin Kreutzer
[edit] Deaths
- January 10 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, organist, composer and music theorist (b. 1697)
- February 1 - Johann Ludwig Krebs, composer (b. 1713)
- April 21 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
- August 19 - Bernhard Haltenberger, composer
- September 6 - George Alexander Stevens, songwriter (b. 1710)
- December 14 - Ignatius Sancho, composer and actor (b. c. 1729)
- date unknown - Hedvig Wigert, opera singer (b. 1748)
- date unknown - Martin Nürenbach, dancer
