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Events

  • January 21 – Luigi Boccherini becomes an official composer to Prince Frederick William of Prussia.
  • February 7 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, presents a festival at Schönbrunn Palace, at which new compositions by both Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri are performed. The libretto is by Lorenzo da Ponte.
  • October 18 – Leopold Mozart is given a blood test on the same day that his daughter-in-law Constanze Mozart gives birth to her third child, Johann Thomas Leopold; the baby dies a month later, Leopold the following year.