# 1789 in music
## Events

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Berlin.
* Joseph Haydn meets Maria Anna von Genzinger.
* Adalbert Gyrowetz arrives in Paris.
* Luigi Cherubini becomes music director for the Théâtre Monsieur.
* Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach becomes Kapellmeister at Berlin.
* Anna Storace appears in a London production of Giovanni Paisiello's Il Barbiere di Siviglia.
* Mozart writes to his fellow Freemason and benefactor, Puchberg, saying that next time they meet, he will tell him about Antonio Salieri’s plots "which, however, have completely failed".
* Ignaz Joseph Pleyel becomes Kapellmeister of Strasbourg Cathedral in succession to Franz Xaver Richter.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven – Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano, Op. 39
* William Hamilton Bird – The Oriental Miscellany
* William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (oratorio)
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – String Quintet in G major, Kr.190
* Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
* Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Sonatas No. 4–6, Op. 10
* John Gunn – 40 Favorite Scotch Airs for Violin, Flute, or Cello
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 92 in G, "Oxford"
** Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
* Leopold Anton Kozeluch – Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Clarinet Quintet in A
** Un moto di gioia mi sento, K.579
* Vasilj Alekseevič Paškevič – Muzyka operyi Komitscheskoi Fewej
* Philip Phile – "The President's March"
* Ignaz Pleyel
** String Quintet in F major, B.285
** 3 Flute Quartets, B.381–383
** 6 Violin Duos, B.513–518
* Karl Leopold Röllig – Kleine Tonstücke für die Glasharmonika
* Daniel Gottlob Türk – Klaviersonaten, größtenteils für Kenner
* Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.16 in E minor

## Opera

* Domenico Cimarosa – I Due Baroni
* André Grétry – Raoul Barbe-Bleue
* Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne – Nephté
* Giovanni Paisiello – Nina
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Brenno; Claudine von Villa Bella
* Antonio Salieri – Il Pastor fido; La Cifra; both with libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
* Stephen Storace – The Haunted Tower
* Paul Wranitzky – Oberon, König der Elfen

## Methods and theory writings

* André Grétry – Mémoires, ou essai sur la musique
* John Gunn – The Theory and Practice of Fingering the Violoncello
* Manuel da Paixão Ribeiro – Nova arte de viola
* Luigi Antonio Sabbatini – Elementi teorici della musica
* Daniel Gottlob Türk
** Klavierscule
** Von den wichtigsten Pflichten eines Organisten

## Births

* January 30 – George Augustus Kollmann, composer
* February 1 – Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, composer (d. 1861)
* February 8 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer (d. 1878)
* February 15 – Friedrich Fesca, composer (d. 1826)
* May 24 – Cathinka Buchwieser, German opera singer and actress (d.1828)
* June 27 – Friedrich Silcher, composer (d. 1860)
* September 1 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
* October 18 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer
* October 24 – Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer (d. 1855)
* October 26 – Joseph Mayseder
* October 28 – Johann Schneider, composer
* November 13 – Martin de Ron, composer
* December 8 – John Fawcett, composer (d. 1867)
* December 14 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer (d. 1831)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Christleib Siegmund Binder, composer
* January 2 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer
* January 20 – Johann Christoph Oley, composer
* February 2 – Armand-Louis Couperin, organist and composer (b. 1727)
* May 10 – Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
* May 12 – Robert Bremner, music collector and publisher (born 1713)
* June 7 – Václav Jan Kopřiva (b. 1708)
* June 14 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer (b. 1727)
* July 4 – Cláudio Manuel da Costa, poet and conductor (b. 1729)
* July 15 – Jacques Duphly, composer (b. 1715)
* September 11 – Luka Sorkočević, composer (b. 1734) (suicide)
* September 12 – Franz Xaver Richter, composer (b. 1709)
* October 24 – Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer
* date unknown
** Minette, actress, singer and dancer (b. 1767) (killed in Haitian race riot)
** Andreas Lidl, British composer (born c. 1740)