1784 in music
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See also: 1783 in music, other events of 1784, 1785 in music, list of years in music.
Events
- June 13 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 is performed for the first time, by his student, Barbara von Ployer. Giovanni Paisiello is in the audience.
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn - Symphony no. 76
- Michael Haydn - Symphony in B flat major; Symphony in C major
- Giovanni Battista Viotti - Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D major; Duetto concertante for 2 Violins in D minor
- André Grétry - Richard Coeur de Lion
- Thomas Linley - The Spanish Rivals
- Antonio Salieri - Les Danaides; Il Ricco d´un giorno (libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte)
- Andrea Luchesi - Ademira
Births
- January 1 - William Beale
- January 27 - Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
- January 29 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
- January 31 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
- February 3 - John Fane, composer and diplomat
- February 27 - Job Plimpton, composer
- April 8 - Dionisio Aguado
- July 27 - Georges Onslow
- August 5 - Louis Spohr
- September 7 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
- October 15 - Thomas Hastings, composer
- December 1 -Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer
Deaths
- January 11 - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer
- February 24 - Anton Laube, composer
- June 7 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas
- July 1 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
- August 6 - Karl Kohaut, composer
- August 4 - Giovanni Battista Martini
- September 27 - Boniface Stoecki, composer
- exact date unknown - Joseph Key of Nuneaton, composer of popular church music
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