1778 in Music History
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Months in 1778: January February March April May June July August September November
Events in Music
Events 1 - 1 of 1
Jan 27th - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 15 of 15
Jan 5th - Fortunato Santini, composer
Jan 13th - Anton Fischer, composer
Feb 12th - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
Feb 13th - Fernando Sor, composer
Feb 14th - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer
Mar 8th - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
Apr 6th - Joseph Funk, composer
May 8th - Johann Gansbacher, composer
May 28th - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
Jul 7th - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
Jul 10th - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master
Jul 25th - Heinrich Gebhard, composer
Jul 29th - Carl Borromaus Neuner, composer
Sep 3rd - Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
Nov 14th - Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 13 of 13
Feb 15th - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
Mar 5th - Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia), dies at 67
Apr 7th - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
Jun 7th - Johann Georg Zechner, composer, dies at 62
Jun 12th - Philip Livingston, American merchant (signed Declaration of Independance), dies at 62
Jun 26th - Angelo Antonio Caroli, composer, dies at 77
Jul 2nd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66
Jul 3rd - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), dies
Jul 3rd - Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720)
Jul 28th - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer, dies at 68
Aug 5th - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
Aug 14th - Augustus Montague Toplady, hymn writer (Rock of Ages), dies
Nov 26th - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
