See also: 1779 in music, other events of 1780, 1781 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Opera 3 Classical music 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich

Opera

• Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Giovanni Paisiello

Classical music

• Job (oratorio) by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Births

• Peter Lichtenthal
• George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower , violinist
• January 14 - François-Joseph Dizi
• November 22 - Conradin Kreutzer

Deaths

• Ignatius Sancho
• Francesco Vallotti
• February 1 - Johann Ludwig Krebs