1798 in music

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Events

• September 2 – Opening of the Teatro Comunale (Ferrara) in Italy with a performance of Portogallo’s Gli Orazi e i Curiazi.
• Opening of the Teatro della Concordia in Iesi, Ancona, "one of the few opera houses in Italy from the late 1700s that has never been destroyed by fire or bombs".^[1]
• Completion of the first São João National Theatre in Porto, Portugal as an opera house.
• Michael Haydn takes on Carl Maria von Weber as a pupil without charge.
• First edition of Niemetschek's biography of Mozart published.

Classical Music

• Joseph Haydn – The Creation
• Joseph Haydn – Missa in Angustiis

Published popular music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – Popular Cheshire Melodies

Births

• January 31 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, kapellmeister and composer (d. 1859)
• March 9 – Mathilda Berwald, Hovsångare (d. 1877)
• October 28 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer (d. 1876)
• date unknown
  • Andrea Maffei, librettist (d. 1885)
  • Louis-Désiré Véron, opera manager (d. 1867)
  • Lovisa Charlotta Borgman, violinist (d. 1884)

Deaths

• January 4 – Giuseppe Giordani, opera composer (b. 1751)
• January 20 – Christian Cannabich, composer (b. 1731)
• January 28 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, composer and conductor (b. 1748)
• July 15 – Gaetano Pugnani, violinist (b. 1731)
• November 30 – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (b. 1766)
• December 16 – Gaetano Brunetti, composer (b. 1744)

References

1. Lynn, Karyl Charna (2005). Italian Opera Houses & Festivals. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0-8108-5359-0.