1778 in music

Events

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's mother dies while accompanying him on a trip to Paris

Classical music

François Joseph Gossec - Symphonie concertante en fa majeur n° 2, à plusieurs instruments
Joseph Haydn - Little Organ Mass
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 31 in D "Paris"

Opera

Carl Christian Agthe - Martin Velten
Johann Christian Bach - La Clemenza di Scipione
Anton Bachschmidt - Antigono
Pierre Joseph Candeille - Les Deux comtesses
Christian Cannabich - Azakia
Charles Dibdin - The Shepherdess of the Alps
Niccola Piccinni - Roland
Antonio Salieri - La scuola de´ gelosi; L´Europa riconosciuta (the latter was the first production of the Scala at Milan)

Published popular music

The Singing Master's Assistant - William Billings, including "Africa"

Births

January 5 - Fortunato Santini, composer
January 13 - Anton Fischer, composer
February 12 - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
February 13 (or 14) - Fernando Sor, guitarist and composer
February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Görner, composer
March 8 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
April 6 - Joseph Funk, composer
May 8 - Johann Gansbacher, composer
May 28 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
July 10 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, composer and royal kapellmeister
July 29 - Carl Borromaus Neuner
September 3 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel

Deaths

February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (b. 1697)
March - Lorenz Christoph Mizler, physician and music writer (b. 1711)
March 5 - Thomas Arne, composer, best known for "Rule Britannia" (b. 1710)
July 2 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer (b. 1712)
July 3 - Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
August 5 - Thomas Linley the younger, composer, aged 22
August 14 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer (b. 1740)
September 20 - Quirino Gasparini, composer (b. 1721)
October 30 - David Perez, opera composer (b. 1711)
November 11 - Anne Steele, hymn-writer (b. 1717)
December 12 - Hermann Raupach, composer (b. 1728)
date unknown
Americus Backers, piano maker
Célestin Harst, organist and harpsichordist (b. 1698)
Samuel Linley, oboist and singer (b. 1760)
Johannes Ringk, organist, composer and copyist of Bach (b. 1717)

Translation of "1778 in music"

Portuguese: 1778 na música, Albanian: 1778 në muzikë.