# 1794 in music
## Events

* Joseph Haydn begins his second visit to London
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is expelled from the palace in Johannesberg after a dispute with his patron Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, ending nearly a quarter of a century in his service there.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven – String Trio No. 1 in E-flat major
* William Billings – The Continental Harmony
* Benjamin Carr – The Federal Overture
* Domenico Cimarosa – Il trionfo della fede, sacred oratorio premiered May 3 in Naples
* Muzio Clementi
** Violin Sonata in C major, Op.30
** Flute Sonata in A major, Op.31
** 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 33
** Piano Trio, WO 6
* Jan Ladislav Dussek – 12 Leçons progressives
* Anton Eberl – Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 1
* Joseph Eybler
** Christmas Oratorio
** 3 String Quartets, Op. 1
* Lev Gurilyov – Piano Sonata No.1
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 100 in G major, "Military"
** Symphony No. 101 in D major, "Clock"
** Symphony No. 102 in B-flat major, Hob.I:102
** Divertimento in C major, Hob.IV:1
** Divertimento in G major, Hob.IV:4
** Piano Trios, Op.36
** Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:32
** Piano Sonata No. 51 in D major, Hob XVI:51
** Piano Sonata No. 52 in E-flat, Hob XVI:52
** 6 Psalms, Hob.XXIII:suppl.
** 6 English Canzonettas, Hob.XXVIa:25-30
* Johann Nepomuk Hummel – 3 Fugues, Op. 7
* Jean Xavier Lefèvre – Clarinet Concerto No.4 in G minor, IJL 1
* Johann Simon Mayr – La Passione, oratorio in Italian
* Etienne Nicolas Méhul – Chant du départ
* F. D Mouchy – La Mort de Louis XVI, Op.3
* William Parkinson – 3 Sonatas for the pianoforte or harpsichord, Op. 1
* William Parsons – The Court Minuets for His Majesty's Birth Day, 1794
* Ignaz Pleyel – 3 Keyboard Trios, B.446-448
* Pierre Rode – Air varié, Op.10
* Antonio Rosetti – Symphony in F major, M.A49/I:25 or 24
* Friedrich Wilhelm Rust – Keyboard Sonata No. 12 in D major, CzaR 11
* Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.27 in C major
* Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse – Piano Sonatas No. 5-8

## Opera

* Luigi Cherubini – Eliza (premiered Dec. 13 in Paris)
* Domenico Cimarosa
** Le astuzie femminili (premiered Aug. 26 in Naples)
** Penelope (premiered Dec. 26 in Naples)
* Francois-Joseph Gossec – Le triomphe de la République, RH 618 (divertissement, premiered Jan. 27 in Paris)
* Friedrich Heinrich Himmel – Il primo navigatore
* Johann Simon Mayr – Saffo
* Étienne Méhul – Horatius Coclès, Mélidore et Phrosine
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Das Gespenst mit der Trommel

## Methods and theory writings

* Matthew Camidge – Instructions, 8 Sonatinas, and Useful Preludes
* Francois Devienne – Nouvelle méthode théorique et pratique pour la flûte
* Anton Joseph Hampel – Méthode pour Cor
* Nicola Sala – Regole del contrappunto pratico

## Births

* January 6 – Kašpar Mašek, composer (d. 1873)
* April 7 – Giovanni Battista Rubini, tenor
* April 9
** Aristide Farrenc, musician and music publisher (died 1865)
** Theobald Boehm, composer and flautist (died 1881)
* May 23 – Ignaz Moscheles, composer and piano virtuoso (d. 1870)
* August 10 – Princess Amalie of Saxony, composer (d. 1870)
* September 10 – François Benoist, organist and composer (d. 1878)
* September 16 – Wenzel Gährich, composer (died 1864)
* September 29 – William Michael Rooke, violinist and composer (d. 1849)
* October 4 – Justina Casagli, operatic soprano
* October 7 – Wilhelm Müller, lyricist (died 1827)
* October 13 – Anselm Hüttenbrenner, composer (d. 1868)
* October 18 – Ferdinand Schubert, Austrian composer (died 1859)
* October 23 – Joseph Panny, composer and violinist (died 1838)
* October 29 – William Bingham Tappan, hymnist (died 1849)
* November 3 – William Cullen Bryant, patron of the arts and poet (died 1878)
* December 6 – Luigi Lablache, operatic bass
* date unknown
** Mirza Shafi Vazeh, lyricist (died 1852)

## Deaths

* April 26 – Johan Foltmar, composer (b. 1714)
* May 6 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, composer and organist (born 1734)
* July 13 – Josse-François-Joseph Benaut, composer and musician (born 1741)
* July 17 – Jean-Frédéric Edelmann, composer (b. 1749) (executed)
* July 22 – Jean-Benjamin de Laborde, composer (born 1734)
* July 25 – André Chénier, lyricist (born 1762)
* August 7 – Edmund Angerer [de], composer (born 1740)
* August 11 – Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, German composer (born 1722)
* August 25 – Leopold August Abel, composer (b. 1717)
* November 9 – Gregory Skovoroda, poet and composer (b. 1722)
* November 20 – Mattia Verazi, Italian librettist (born c. 1730)
* November 22 – Alison Cockburn, lyricist (born 1712)