Birthdays in Music in 1778

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  • Jan 5 Fortunato Santini, composer
  • Jan 13 Anton Fischer, composer
  • Feb 12 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
  • Feb 14 Fernando Sor, Spanish composer, baptized in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1839)
  • Mar 8 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, born in Delitzsch, Saxony (d. 1833)
  • Apr 6 Joseph Funk, early American composer, born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (d. 1862)
  • May 8 Johann Baptist Gansbacher, Austrian composer, born in Sterzing, Tyrol, Italy (d. 1844)
  • May 28 Friedrich Westenholz, composer
  • Jul 7 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
  • Jul 10 Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
  • Jul 29 Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
  • Sep 3 Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
  • Nov 14 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer