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EVENTS

Joseph Haydn and Ludwig Van Beethoven meet for the first time.

Georg Joseph Vogler brings his invention, the Orchestrion , to London .

Beginnings of the Beijing Opera .

Prince Anton Esterhazy disbands his father's orchestra.

OPERA

Karl Ditters Von Dittersdorf - ''Der Teufel als Hydraulikus''

Johann Nepomuk Hummel - ''Piano Quartet in D''

Étienne Méhul - ''Euphrosine et Corradin ou le Tyran corrigé''

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - '' Così Fan Tutte '' (at the suggestion of the Emperor Joseph II first produced at Vienna in 1790)

Giovanni Paisiello - ''Nina'' (libretto by Giambattista Lorenzi )

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Ludwig Van Beethoven - ''Cantata on the Death of Joseph II''

Johann Ladislaus Dussek - ''Piano Trio''

Joseph Haydn - op. 64, ''Tost Quartets''

Claus Schall - ''Concerto No. 4 for violin and orchestra in D major''

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"Rosy Hannah", song by James Hook

BIRTHS

February 11 - Ignaz Assmayer , composer

February 16 - Chretien Urhan , composer

March 15 - Nicola Vaccai , composer

May 6 - Vaclav Vilem Wurfel , composer

June 10 - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul , composer

June 21 - Wilhelm Speyer , composer

October 8 - Waldemar Thrane

October 10 - George Gerson , composer

October 30 - Karol Joseph Lipinski , composer

DEATHS

January 6 - Johann Trier , composer

January 7 - Antonio Corbisiero

February 14 - Capel Bond , composer

February 18 - Wilhelm Gottfried Enderle , composer

February 19 - Jean-Baptiste Krumphultz , composer

February 21 - Johann Friedrich Kloffler , composer

June 8 - Charles-Joseph Van Helmont , composer

July 31 - Johann Christian Frischmuth , composer

September 3 - Thomas Norris , composer

December 16 - Ludwig August Lebrun , composer