1780 in music

See also: 1779 in music, other events of 1780, 1781 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes his opera Idomeneo at Munich.
• The Danish national anthem, "Kong Kristian...", is first sung.
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen goes into its third edition.

Opera

• Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Giovanni Paisiello

Classical music

• Job (oratorio) by Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Births

• Peter Lichtenthal
• George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, violinist
• January 14 – François-Joseph Dizi
• February 9 – Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
• March 10 – Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
• May 22 – Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer
• May 28 – Joseph Frohlich, composer
• June 18 – Michael Henkel, composer
• July 25 – Christian Theodor Weinlig, composer
• November 3 – Victor-Charles-Paul Dourlen, composer
• November 16 – Robert Archibald Smith, composer
• November 22 – Conradin Kreutzer

Deaths

• Ignatius Sancho
• January 10 – Francesco Vallotti
• February 1 – Johann Ludwig Krebs
• April 21 – Ferdinand Zellbell, composer
• August 19 – Bernhard Haltenberger, composer