1789 in music
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See also: 1788 in music, other events of 1789, 1790 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in Berlin.
- Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
- Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
- Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
- Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
- Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
- Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
- Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.
Classical Music
- Opus 39 by Ludwig van Beethoven: Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano.
- Haydn's Symphony no 92 in G Major, "Oxford"
- The Captivity of Judah (oratorio) by William Crotch
- Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major by Leopold Anton Kozeluch
Opera
- "Così fan tutte" composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- "I Due Baroni" by Domenico Cimarosa
- "Il Pastor fido" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
- "La Cifra" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
- "Raoul Barbe-Bleue" by André Grétry
Births
- January 30 - George Augustus Kollmann, composer
- February 1 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
- February 8 - Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
- February 15 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
- June 27 - Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
- September 1 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
- October 18 - Giovanni Tadolini, composer
- October 24 - Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
- October 26 - Joseph Mayseder
- October 28 - Johann Schneider, composer
- November 13 - Martin de Ron, composer
- December 8 - John Fawcett, composer
- December 14 - Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer
Deaths
- January 1 - Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
- January 2 - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
- January 20 - Johann Christoph Oley, composer
- February 2 - Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer
- May 10 - Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
- June 7 - Vaclav Jan Kopriva
- June 14 - Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
- July 4 - Claudio M. da Costa, conductor
- July 15 - Jacques Duphly
- October 24 - Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer