# 1782 in music
## Events

* March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
* August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna.
* September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Cora och Alonzo.
* William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
* Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.

## Published popular music

* James Aird (compiled and edited) – A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (including "The Miners of Wicklow", possibly the first published version of "Yankee Doodle")
* Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven
** 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
** Schilderung eines Mädchen, WoO 107
* Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda – 3 Flute Concertos, Op. 4
* Luigi Boccherini
** Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
** Symphony in E-flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
** Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
** Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
** Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
* Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Seconde et nouvelle suite de simphonies concertantes à plusieurs instruments
* Muzio Clementi
** 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 7
** 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 8
* François Joseph Gossec – Hymne à la Liberté, RH 628
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
** Symphony No. 77 in B-flat major, Hob.I:77
** Symphony No.78 in C minor, Hob.I:78
** Divertimento in B-flat major, Hob.II:46 (authorship is disputed)
** Keyboard Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII:4
** Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII:11
** Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:8 "Mariazellermesse"
* Michael Haydn – Divertimento in D major, MH 319
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner", K. 385
** String Quartet in G, K. 387, No. 14
** Fantasia in D minor, K.397/385g
** Suite in C major, K.399/385i
** Violin Sonata in C major, K.403/385c
** Adagio in F major, K.410/484d
* Emanuel Johann Gottfried Pässler – Sechs Sonaten für das Klavier oder die Harfe
* Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain – Violin Concerto No.3 in B-flat major
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Klavierstück über eine Petrarchische Ode
* Antonio Rosetti – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3
* Johann Abraham Peter Schulz – Lieder im Volkston
* Johannes Matthias Sperger – String Symphony in C
* Giovanni Battista Viotti
** Concerto for Violin No. 2 in E major, G 44
** Violin Concerto No.4 in D major
** Violin Concerto No.5 in C major
* Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – Osterkantate

## Opera

* Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
* Domenico Cimarosa
** L'amor costante
** La ballerina amante
** Circe
** Il convito
** L'eroe cinese
* François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
* Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 16 July, Burgtheater in Vienna.
* Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia
* Giuseppe Sarti – Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode

## Methods and theory writings

* Anton Bemetzrieder – Abstract of a New Method of Teaching the Principles of Music
* Heinrich Philipp Bossler – Elementarbuch der Tonkunst zum Unterricht beim Klavier
* Michel Corrette – L’art de se perfectionner dans le violon
* Johann Kirnberger – Gedanken über die verschiedenen Lehrarten in der Komposition
* Louis-Toussaint Milandre – Méthode facile pour la viole d'amour, Op.5
* Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Musikalisches Kunstmagazin

## Births

* January 29 – Daniel Auber, composer (died 1871)
* April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer (died 1873)
* May 1 – Christopher Meineke, composer, organist (died 1850)
* July 19 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer and son of Jonas Blewitt (died 1853)
* July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer (died 1837)
* September 23 – Jacques Féréol Mazas, composer and musician (died 1849)
* October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, composer, violinist (died 1840)
* December 21 – Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, flautist (died 1835)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
* April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
* April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
* May – Joseph Kelway, composer and organist (born c. 1702)
* May 6 – Herman Friedrich Voltmar, Danish composer (born 1707)
* June 17 – Kane O'Hara, Irish composer (b. 1711)
* July 15 – Robert Wainwright, composer
* August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
* August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
* September 16 – Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
* October – John Parry, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
* October 23 – Joseph Riepel, German composer (born 1709)
* December 28 – Maria Carolina of Savoy, composer and princess (born 1764)
* date unknown
** Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer (b. 1714)
** Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)
** Giovannini, composer and violinist (birth year unknown)