Events in Music
Music Premiere
Apr 2 1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C

Ludwig van Beethoven
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 16 Jozef Stefani, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1876)
Deaths in Music
- Apr 25 William Cowper, English pre-romantic poet (Olney Hymns), dies at 68