| Year |
Event |
| 1776 |
Charles Burney: "History of Music" |
| 1776 |
"Concerts of Ancient Music," London |
| 1776 |
Mozart: Serenade in D Major, K 250 (Haffner) |
| 1777 |
Gluck: "Armide," Paris |
| 1777 |
Haydn: Symphony no 63 in C major (La Roxolane) |
| 1778 |
Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer, dies |
| 1778 |
Beethoven (now eight) is presented by his father as six year old prodigy |
| 1778 |
La Scala, Milan, opened |
| 1778 |
Mozart: "Les Petits Riens," ballet, Paris |
| 1779 |
William Boyce, English composer, dies |
| 1779 |
J.C. Bach: Amadis de Gaule," opera, Paris |
| 1779 |
Gluck: "Iphigenie en Tauride," Paris |
| 1780 |
Spanish dance "bolero" invented by dancer Sebastiano Carezo |
| 1780 |
Sebastien Erard (Paris) makes first modern pianoforte |
| 1780 |
Haydn: "Toy" Symphony |
| 1780 |
Giovanni Paisiello: "Il Barbiere di Siviglia," St. Petersburg |
| 1780 |
Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf: "Job," oratorio |
| 1781 |
Haydn: "Russian" String Quartets (37-42) |
| 1781 |
Johann Adam Hiller establishes the Gewandhaus Concerts at Leipzig |
| 1781 |
Mozart: "Idomeneo, re di Creta," opera, Munich |
| 1782 |
Metastasio, famous opera librettist, dies |
| 1782 |
Farinelli (Carlo Broschi), great Italian castrato singer, dies |
| 1782 |
Daniel Auber, French composer, born |
| 1782 |
J.C. Bach dies |
| 1782 |
John Field, English composer, born |
| 1782 |
Mozart: "Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail" ("The Abduction from the Seraglio"), opera, Vienna |
| 1782 |
Nicolo Paganini, Italian composer and violinist, born |
| 1783 |
Johann Adolf Hasse, German composer, dies |
| 1783 |
Beethoven's first works printed |
| 1783 |
John Broadwood, English pianoforte maker, patents his piano pedals |
| 1783 |
Mozart: Mass in C minor |
| 1784 |
Wilhelm Freidemann Bach dies |
| 1784 |
Andre Gretry: "Richard Coeur de Lion," Opera, Paris |
| 1784 |
Salieri: "Les Danaides," opera, Paris |
| 1784 |
Louis Spohr, German composer, born |
| 1785 |
Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, dies |
| 1785 |
Mozart: six "Haydn" String Quartets |
| 1786 |
Ditters von Dittersdorf: "Doctor und Apotheker," comic opera, Vienna |
| 1786 |
Mozart: " The Marraige of Figaro," Vienna |
| 1786 |
Carl Maria von Weber, German composer, born |
| 1787 |
Leopold Mozart dies |
| 1787 |
Luigi Boccherini made court composer in Berlin |
| 1787 |
Gluck dies |
| 1787 |
Mozart: "Don Giovanni," Prague |
| 1788 |
Johann Gottfried Muthel, German composer and organist, dies |
| 1788 |
K.P.E. Bach dies |
| 1788 |
Mozart: The three "great" symphonies: E flat, G minor, Jupiter |
| 1789 |
Franz Xaver Richter, German composer, dies |
| 1789 |
Charles Burney "History of Music" finished |
| 1789 |
Gretry: "Raoul Barbe-Bleue," opera, Paris |
| 1789 |
Friedrich Silcher, German composer, born |
| 1790 |
Mozart: "Cosi fan tutte," opera, Vienna |
| 1790 |
First musical competition in America |
| 1791 |
Cherubini: "Lodoiska," opera, Paris |
| 1791 |
Carl Czerny, Austrian composer, born |
| 1791 |
Haydn: "Surprise" symphony |
| 1791 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer, born |
| 1791 |
First performance of Mozart's " Magic Flute," Vienna |
| 1791 |
The waltz becomes fashionable in England |
| 1792 |
Beethoven becomes Haydn's pupil in Vienna |
| 1792 |
Domenico Cimarosa: " Il matrimonio segreto," comic opera, Vienna |
| 1792 |
Rossini, Italian composer, born |
| 1792 |
C.J. Rouget de Lisle: "La Marseillaise" |
| 1793 |
Paganini (at 11) makes his debut as a violin virtuoso, Genoa |
| 1794 |
"Auld Lang Syne" (Burns) published |
| 1794 |
"Tammany, or The Indian Cheif," one of the earliest American operas, music by James Hewitt, performed in New York |
| 1795 |
Pedro Albeniz, Spanish composer, born |
| 1795 |
Beethoven: three piano trios, Op. 1 |
| 1795 |
Haydn completes the 12 London symphonies |
| 1795 |
Heinrich Marshner, German composer, born |
| 1795 |
Paris Conservatoire de Musique founded |
| 1796 |
"The Archers of Switzerland," a William Tell opera by Benjamin Carr produced in New York |
| 1796 |
Karl Loewe, German composer, born |
| 1797 |
Cherubini: "Medee," opera, Paris |
| 1797 |
Gaetano Donizetti, Italian composer, born |
| 1797 |
Franz Schubert, Austrian composer, born |
| 1797 |
Haydn: "Emporer" Quartet |
| 1799 |
Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C major |
| 1799 |
Barberina Campanini, Italian dancer, dies |
| 1799 |
Karl Ditter von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies |
| 1799 |
Haydn: " The Creation," oratorio, Vienna |
| 1800 |
Boieldieu:"Le Calife de Bagdad", opera, Paris |
| 1800 |
Cherubini:"Les Deux Journees" (The Water Carrier), opera, Paris |
| 1800 |
Nicola Piccini, Italian composer, Gluck's rival in Paris, dies |
Music History Timeline - 1776 to 1800
