1779 in music

See also: 1778 in music, other events of 1779, 1780 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Opera house at Eszterháza burns down

Opera

• Zaide by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Amadis de Gaule by Johann Christian Bach
• Iphigénie en Tauride by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• Sinfonia Concertante by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Births

• April 11 - Louise Reichardt
• May 28 - Thomas Moore, poet and lyricist
• August 1 - Francis Scott Key
• September 10 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni

Deaths

• April 6 - Tommaso Traetta
• February 7 - William Boyce