# 1793 in music
## Events

* September 25 – The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.
* Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa.
* Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, by Prof. Joseph Jowett, probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch.

## Popular Music

* Nehemiah Shumway – The American Harmony, including "Schenectady"
* George Thomson – A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice

## Classical music

* Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – Variations on La Marseillaise
* Ludwig van Beethoven – Ein Selbstgespräch, WoO 114
* Domenico Cimarosa – Concerto for 2 Flutes in G major, G.1077
* Muzio Clementi
** 3 Piano Trios, Op. 29
** 3 Piano Trios, Op. 32
* Jan Ladislav Dussek
** 6 Piano Sonatinas, Op. 19
** Piano Concerto No.5, Op. 22
** The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Op. 23
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 99
** String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
** Variations in F minor
** 12 German Dances, Hob.IX:10
** Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:32
* Michael Haydn – Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae
* Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 38
* Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.26 in B-flat major
* Paul Wranitzky
** Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24
** Six String Quartets, Op. 23

## Opera

* Felice Alessandri – Virginia
* Samuel Arnold – The Mountaineers
* Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa
* François-Adrien Boïeldieu – La fille coupable
* Domenico Cimarosa – I traci amanti
* Francesco Gardi – Pirro
* Johann Baptist Henneberg – Die Waldmänner
* Étienne Méhul – Le jeune sage et le vieux fou
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Erwin und Elmire
* Josef Seger – 8 Toccatas and Fugues
* Daniel Steibelt – Roméo et Juliette

## Methods and theory writings

* Pierre Baillot – Méthode de Violon
* Joseph Frike – A Guide in Harmony
* Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek – Traité général de tous les instruments à vent
* Georg Joseph Vogler – Verbesserung der Forkel’schen Veränderungen über 'God save the King'

## Births

* January 18 – William Henry Havergal, hymn-writer and composer (d. 1870)
* February 14 – William Crathern, composer of sacred music (d. c.1851)
* February 27 – Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (d. 1861)
* July 22 – Eugène Walckiers, composer (died 1866)
* August 21 – Peter Casper Krossing, composer (d. 1838)
* September 2 – Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (d. 1878)
* December 26 – François Hünten, composer (died 1878)
* date unknown – William Bartholomew, arranger and composer (died 1867)

## Deaths

* January 24 (bur.) – Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (b. 1696)
* March 17 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (b. 1738)
* May 3 – Martin Gerbert, music writer (b. 1720)
* May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer (b. 1722)
* July 26 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer (born 1702)
* September 10 – Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, opera composer (b. 1742)
* September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer (b. 1734)
* October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer (b. 1726)
* October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (b. 1710)
* date unknown
** Philip Phile, violinist and composer (b. c.1734)
** Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)