1778 in music
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See also: 1777 in music, other events of 1778, 1779 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Mozart's mother dies
Classical music
- 12 Variations for Piano "La belle Françoise" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Little Organ Mass by Joseph Haydn
Opera
- "La scuola de´ gelosi" by Antonio Salieri
- "L´Europa riconosciuta" by Antonio Salieri, first production of the Scala at Milan
- "Roland" by Niccola Piccinni
- "The Shepherdess of the Alps" by Charles Dibdin
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, composer
- February 15 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, 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 25 - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
- July 29 - Carl Borromaus Neuner
- September 3 - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
- November 14 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Deaths
- March 5 - Thomas Arne, best known for Rule, Britannia
- April 7 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
- June 7 - Johann Georg Zechner, composer
- June 26 - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer
- July 28 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
- August 5 - Thomas Linley, composer, aged 22
- August 14 - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn-writer
- November 26 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer