1799 in music

Events Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

Classical music Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathétique"); Piano Sonatas Nos. 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2) Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77 Antonio Salieri – "Der Tyroler Landsturm", secular cantata for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, double choir, orchestra and speaker Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funèbre Louis Spohr – Violin Concerto in G major, WoO 9

Opera Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

Births February 25 – Siegfried Wilhelm Dehn, music theorist (died 1858) March 21 – Charles Mayer, pianist and composer (died 1862) April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (died 1860) May 26 – Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, novelist and lyricist (died 1837) May 27 – Fromental Halévy, composer (died 1862) May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879) June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839) September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869) October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868) December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)

Deaths March 28 – Bendix Friedrich Zinck I, composer (born 1715) April 1 – Narcís Casanoves i Bertran, composer (born 1747) April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62 May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58 May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74 June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53 June 18 – Johann Andre, composer (born 1741) August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61 September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50 October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44 October 24 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59 date unknown Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747) Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)

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