1795 in music

Events

• Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna following second London visit.
• Franz Krommer settles in Vienna.
• Ludwig van Beethoven makes his public performance debut as a pianist

Opera

• Louis Emmanuel Jadin Le Cabaleur
• Vicente Martín y Soler – La Capricciosa Correta
• Antonio Salieri – Palmira

Classical music

• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – 6 String Trios, Op. 9
• Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 12 Minuets, WoO 7
  • German Dances, WoO 8
  • 6 Minuets, WoO 9
  • 6 Minuets, WoO 10
  • Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', WoO 28
  • 9 Variations on 'Quant'e piu bello', WoO 69
  • 6 Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento', WoO 70
  • Im Arm der Liebe ruht sich's wohl, WoO 159
  • Three Piano Trios, Op. 1
  • String Quintet in E-flat major, Op.4
  • Sextet in E-flat major, Op.81b
  • Rondo a capriccio, Op.129
• Muzio Clementi – 2 Piano Sonatas and 2 Capriccios, Op. 34
• Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
• Adalbert Gyrowetz
  • Three Flute Quartets, Op. 11
  • 3 String Quartets, Op. 19
• Thomas Haigh – 3 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 10
• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphonies 103 in E-flat "Drum Roll" and 104 in D "London"
  • Piano Trios Op. 82, Including XV:24, 25, 26
  • Piano Trio in E-flat minor, Hob.XV:31
  • 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150 (Volume III, 101–150)
• Heinrich Anton Hoffmann – 3 String Quartets, Op. 3
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Sonata No. 8
• Hyacinthe Jadin
  • 3 String Quartets, Op. 1
  • 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 4
• Hans Georg Nägeli – Freut euch des Lebens (song)
• Ignaz Pleyel – Keyboard Trio in D major, B.461
• Joseph Reicha – Concerto Concertant, Op. 3
• Daniel Gottlob Turk – 120 Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler, Vol 2.
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.24 in B minor
• Friedrich Witt – Horn concerto in E major
• Francesco Molino - 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op.6

Methods and theory writings

• Johann Ernst Altenburg – Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter und Pauker-Kunst^[1]
• Giuseppe Aprile – The Modern Italian Method of Singing
• Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Méthode pour la flûte traversiere
• Justin Heinrich Knecht – Vollständige Orgelschule
• Heinrich Christoph Koch – Über den Charakter der Solo- und Ripienstimmen

Births

• January 18 – Joseph Merk, cellist (died 1852)
• March 14 – Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer (died 1856)
• March 23 – Leopold Jansa, composer (died 1875)
• April 4 – Joseph Böhm, violinist and music teacher (died 1876)
• April 14 – Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer (died 1855)
• June 13 – Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (died 1864)
• May 27 – Friedrich August Belcke, trombonist (died 1874)^[2]
• August 16 – Heinrich Marschner, composer (died 1861)
• August 17 – Pierre-Louis Parisis, dedicatee and bishop (died 1866)
• September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (died 1870)
• September 29 – Kondraty Ryleyev, lyricist and poet (died 1826)
• October 17 – Johann Christoph Biernatzki, librettist and writer (died 1840)
• October 31 – John Keats, lyricist and poet (died 1821)
• November 17 – Antonio Bagioli, composer and music teacher (died 1871)
• December 10 – Kaspar Kummer, composer and flautist (died 1870)
• date unknown – Jeanne-Catherine Pauwels, Belgian pianist (died 1889)

Deaths

• January 19 – Maria Teresa Agnesi, Italian composer (born 1720)
• January 21 – Michel Corrette, organist and composer (b. 1707)
• January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer (b. 1732)^[3]
• February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, composer (b. 1740)
• March 5 – Josef Reicha, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1752)
• May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic (b. 1718)
• July – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist (b. 1714)
• August 19 – Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer (born 1727)
• August 31 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (born 1726)
• September 22 – Sayat-Nova, composer and musician (born 1712)
• October 3 – John Christopher Smith, English composer (born 1712)
• October 11 – Franz Christoph Neubauer, German composer (born 1750)
• October 25 – Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini, Italian composer (born 1723)
• November 6 – Georg Benda, composer (b. 1722)
• November 19 – Thomas Linley the elder, conductor and composer (b. 1733)^[4]
• December 6 – Sofia Liljegren, Finnish soprano (b. 1765)

References

1. Johann Ernst Altenburg (1795). Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter- und Pauker-Kunst: mit Exempeln erlautert. Zwey Theile. J.C. Hendel.
2. Brass Quarterly. Brass Quarterly. 1962. p. 3.
3. Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1 January 1988). Four Late Sinfonias. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-89579-226-6.
4. Aspden, Suzanne (2004). "Linley, Thomas (1733–1795)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16737. Retrieved 28 December 2014. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)