# 1796 in music
## Events

* The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.

## Classical music

* Ludwig van Beethoven
** Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
** Notturno in D major, Op.42
** Ah! Perfido, Op.65
** Duet mit zwei obligaten Augengläsern, WoO 32
** Sonatina for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43a
** Adagio for Mandolin and Harpsichord, WoO 43b
** Allegretto, WoO 53
** Abschiedsgesang an Wiens Bürger, WoO 121
* Francois-Adrien Boieldieu – Duo No.2 in B-flat major for Harp and Piano
* Muzio Clementi
** Concerto for piano in C major
** Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 35
* Johann Baptist Cramer – Piano Concerto No.2, Op. 16
* Adalbert Gyrowetz – 3 String Quartets, Op. 13
* Joseph Haydn
** Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major
** Die Worte des Erlösers am Kreuze, Hob.XX:2
** Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:9 Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War")
** Mass in B-flat major, Hob.XXII:10
** Guarda qui, che lo vedrai, Hob.XXVa:1
** Saper vorrei se m'ami, Hob.XXVa:2
* Hyacinthe Jadin – 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 5
* Rodolphe Kreutzer – Études ou caprices
* Ignaz Pleyel – 6 Duos, B.574-579
* Giovanni Punto – Horn Concerto No.6
* Jakub Jan Ryba – Missa pastoralis bohemica
* Carl Friedrich Zelter – 12 Lieder am Clavier zu singen, Z.120

## Opera

* Domenico Cimarosa
** I nemici generosi
** Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
* Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
* Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
* Antonio Salieri – Il Moro
* Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
* Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest

## Popular music

* "It Was A' For Our Rightful King", 1796 Jacobite song with lyrics by Robert Burns

## Methods and theory writings

* Charles Burney – Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Abate Metastasio
* Wenzel Hause – Méthode de contrebasse
* António da Silva Leite – Estudo de guitarra
* Bernard Viguerie – L'art de toucher le piano-forte

## Births

* January 23 – Jean Reboul, librettist and poet (died 1864)
* February 17 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (died 1867)
* June 14 – Mathilda d'Orozco, composer (died 1863)
* June 25 – Ferdinando Giorgetti, Italian composer (died 1867)
* July 22 – Carlo Pepoli, librettist and politician (died 1881)
* July 23 – Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868)
* July 24 – Jan Czeczot, librettist and poet (died 1847)
* July 28 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (died 1859)
* July 29 – Christian Winther, lyricist and poet (died 1876)
* August 25 – James Lick, piano builder (died 1876)
* August 27 – Elise Barensfeld, soprano (died after 1820)
* September 3 – Henriette Widerberg, soprano (died 1872)
* September 20 – Franz Wilhelm Ferling, composer and oboist (died 1874)
* November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)
* December 9 – Emilie Zumsteeg, composer and musician (died 1857)
* date unknown – Mirzə Şəfi Vazeh, lyricist and poet (died 1852)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician, 60
* February 16 (or April 16) – Caterina Gabrielli, operatic soprano, 65
* February 17 – James Macpherson, librettist and writer (born 1736)
* February 28 – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, composer and violinist (born 1739)
* March 19 – Stephen Storace, composer, 33
* June 8 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer, 80
* July 17 – Thomas Sanders Dupuis, English composer (born 1733)
* July 21 – Robert Burns, librettist and poet (born 1759)
* August 12 – Mary Ann Wrighten Pownall, librettist and singer (born 1751)
* October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso (born c.1748)
* October 31 – Thomas Haxby, musical instrument maker, 67
* date unknown
** Luffman Atterbury, carpenter, builder and musician
** Samuel Green, organ builder (born 1740)
** Nicola Sabatino, composer (born 1705)