1786 in music
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See also: 1785 in music, other events of 1786, 1787 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- In Britain, William Parsons succeeds John Stanley as Master of the King's Musick.
- In Benares, Jiwan Shah and Francis Fowke conduct an experiment comparing the pitch of the harpsichord with that of a traditional Indian instrument
- America's oldest singing society was founded on November 7 as the Stoughton Musical Society.
Classical music
- Der Apotheker und der Doktor, singspiel by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf
- Mozart's piano concertos nos. 23 and 24
- Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 82 ("Bear")
- Symphony no.38 in D 'Prague'. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opera
- Der Schauspieldirektor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Le Faucon by Dmitri Stepanovich Bortniansky
- Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) was first performed in Vienna. Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte.
- Les Horaces and Prima la musica e poi le parole by Antonio Salieri
- Armida e Rinaldo - Giuseppe Sarti
Published popular music
- First edition of Elias Mann's Worcester Collection
Births
- January 3 - Johann Christian Friedrich Schneider, composer
- April 18 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
- July 25 - Giacomo Cordella, composer
- September 11 - Friedrich Kuhlau
- November 7 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, composer
- November 10 - Carl Eberwein, composer
- November 18 (or December 18) - Carl Maria von Weber
- November 18 - Sir Henry Rowley Bishop, Professor of Music at Oxford
- December 20 - Pietro Raimondi, composer
Deaths
- January 14 - Michael Arne
- February 20 - Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer
- March 7 -Frantisek Benda, composer
- May 19 - John Stanley
- July 22 - Vaclav Kalous, composer
- July 29 - Franz Asplmayr, composer
- August 7 - Friedrich Schwindl, composer
- August 17 - King Frederick II of Prussia, amateur composer
- October 6 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini, composer
- October 19 - Pietro Alessandro Pavona, composer