1799 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• Swiss composer Jean Baptiste Édouard Du Puy is dismissed by King Gustav IV of Sweden for praising Napoleon.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata in C Minor, Op. 13 (Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|Pathetique); Piano Sonata 9 and 10 (Op. 14, No. 1 and 2)
• Benjamin Carr – Dead March and Monody
• Joseph Haydn – String Quartets Op. 77
• Giovanni Paisiello – Sinfonia Funebre

Opera

• Étienne Méhul – Adrien, Ariodant
• Ferdinando Paer – La Camila ossia il Sotteraneo
• Antonio Salieri – Falstaff o sia Le tre burle

Births

• April 13 – Ludwig Rellstab, critic (died 1860)
• May 30 – Ferdo Livadić, nationalist composer (died 1879)
• June 13 – Henri Brod, oboist, instrument builder and composer (died 1839)
• September 11 – Giuseppe Persiani, opera composer (died 1869)
• October 31 – Maria Fredrica von Stedingk composer (died 1868)
• December 31 – Thomas Täglichsbeck, violinist and composer (died 1867)

Deaths

• April 28 – François Giroust, composer, 62
• May 2 – Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer, 58
• May 9 – Claude Balbastre, organist, harpsichordist and composer, 74
• June 10 – Chevalier de Saint-Georges, composer and violinist, 53
• August 16 – Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, 61
• September 20 – Polly Young, soprano, composer and keyboard player, 50
• October 16 – Antoine-Frédéric Gresnick, composer, 44
• October 24 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer, 59
• date unknown
  • Narciso Casanovas, composer (born 1747)
  • Marija Zubova, composer (born 1749)