1789 in music

See also: 1788 in music, other events of 1789, 1790 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart arrives in 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

• Opus 39 by Ludwig van Beethoven: Two Preludes through all twelve major keys for piano.
• Haydn's Symphony no 92 in G Major, "Oxford"
• The Captivity of Judah (oratorio) by William Crotch
• Concerto for Clarinet no 2 in E flat major by Leopold Anton Kozeluch

Opera

• "Così fan tutte" composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• "I Due Baroni" by Domenico Cimarosa
• "Il Pastor fido" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• "La Cifra" by Antonio Salieri, libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte
• "Raoul Barbe-Bleue" by André Grétry

Births

• January 30 – George Augustus Kollmann, composer
• February 1 – Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
• February 8 – Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
• February 15 – Friedrich Fesca, composer
• June 27 – Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
• September 1 – Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer
• October 18 – Giovanni Tadolini, composer
• October 24 – Ramon Carnicer y Batlle, composer
• October 26 – Joseph Mayseder
• October 28 – Johann Schneider, composer
• November 13 – Martin de Ron, composer
• December 8 – John Fawcett, composer
• December 14 – Maria Agata Szymanowska, composer

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
• May 10 – Guillaume Gommaire Kennis, composer
• June 7 – Vaclav Jan Kopriva
• June 14 – Johann Wilhelm Hertel, composer
• July 4 – Claudio M. da Costa, conductor
• July 15 – Jacques Duphly
• October 24 – Joaquin de Oxinaga, composer