Events in Music
- Jan 27 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres in Paris
Birthdays in Music
- 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 and royal chaplain master, born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1858)
- Jul 29 Carl Borromaus Neuner, German composer, born in Munich, Bavaria (d. 1830)
- Sep 3 Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, French violinist and composer, born in Versailles, France (d. 1832)
- Nov 14 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
Deaths in Music
- Feb 15 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, German composer, dies at 80
- Mar 5 Thomas Arne, British composer (Rule Britannia, A-Hunting We Will Go), dies at 67
- Apr 7 Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
- Jun 7 Johann Georg Zechner, Austrian composer, dies at 62
- Jun 26 Angelo Antonio Caroli, Italian composer, dies at 77
- Jul 28 Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
- Aug 5 Thomas Linley the younger, English composer and musician "English Mozart", dies at 22
- Nov 26 Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68