1782 in music

Events

 * March 17 – Violinist Giovanni Battista Viotti makes his début at the Concert Spirituel in Paris.
 * August 4 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart marries Constanze Weber in Vienna.
 * September 30 – The Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm is inaugurated with a performance of Johann Gottlieb Naumann's Cora och Alonzo.
 * William Shield is appointed resident composer to Covent Garden.
 * Antoine Bournonville and his sister Julie Alix de la Fay join the Royal Swedish Ballet at Stockholm.

Published popular music

 * James Aird (compiled and edited) – A Selection of Scotch, English, Irish and Foreign Airs (including "The Miners of Wicklow", possibly the first published version of "Yankee Doodle")
 * Robert Burns – John Barleycorn (original version from 16th century)

Classical music

 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 9 Variations on a March by Dressler, WoO 63
 * Schilderung eines Mädchen, WoO 107
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Benda – 3 Flute Concertos, Op. 4
 * Luigi Boccherini
 * Symphony in D major, Op. 35 no 1/G 509
 * Symphony in E-flat major, Op 35 no 2/G 510
 * Symphony in A major, Op. 35 no 3/G 511
 * Symphony in F major, Op. 35 no 4/G 512
 * Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 35 no 5/G 513
 * Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Seconde et nouvelle suite de simphonies concertantes à plusieurs instruments
 * Muzio Clementi
 * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 7
 * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 8
 * François Joseph Gossec – Hymne à la Liberté, RH 628
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Symphony No. 73 in D "La chasse"
 * Symphony No. 77 in B-flat major, Hob.I:77
 * Symphony No.78 in C minor, Hob.I:78
 * Divertimento in B-flat major, Hob.II:46 (authorship is disputed)
 * Keyboard Concerto in G major, Hob.XVIII:4
 * Keyboard Concerto in D major, Hob.XVIII:11
 * Mass in C major, Hob.XXII:8 "Mariazellermesse"
 * Michael Haydn – Divertimento in D major, MH 319
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Symphony No. 35 in D "Haffner", K. 385
 * String Quartet in G, K. 387, No. 14
 * Fantasia in D minor, K.397/385g
 * Suite in C major, K.399/385i
 * Violin Sonata in C major, K.403/385c
 * Adagio in F major, K.410/484d
 * Emanuel Johann Gottfried Pässler – Sechs Sonaten für das Klavier oder die Harfe
 * Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain – Violin Concerto No.3 in B-flat major
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Klavierstück über eine Petrarchische Ode
 * Antonio Rosetti – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3
 * Johann Abraham Peter Schulz – Lieder im Volkston
 * Johannes Matthias Sperger – String Symphony in C
 * Giovanni Battista Viotti
 * Concerto for Violin No. 2 in E major, G 44
 * Violin Concerto No.4 in D major
 * Violin Concerto No.5 in C major
 * Ernst Wilhelm Wolf – Osterkantate

Opera

 * Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Alcide
 * Domenico Cimarosa
 * L'amor costante
 * La ballerina amante
 * Circe
 * Il convito
 * L'eroe cinese
 * François-Joseph Gossec – Thésée
 * Joseph Haydn – Orlando paladino
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Entführung aus dem Serail, 16 July, Burgtheater in Vienna.
 * Giovanni Paisiello – Il barbiere di Siviglia
 * Giuseppe Sarti – Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode

Methods and theory writings

 * Anton Bemetzrieder – Abstract of a New Method of Teaching the Principles of Music
 * Heinrich Philipp Bossler – Elementarbuch der Tonkunst zum Unterricht beim Klavier
 * Michel Corrette – L’art de se perfectionner dans le violon
 * Johann Kirnberger – Gedanken über die verschiedenen Lehrarten in der Komposition
 * Louis-Toussaint Milandre – Méthode facile pour la viole d'amour, Op.5
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Musikalisches Kunstmagazin

Births

 * January 29 – Daniel Auber, composer (died 1871)
 * April 14 – Carlo Coccia, composer (died 1873)
 * May 1 – Christopher Meineke, composer, organist (died 1850)
 * July 19 – Jonathan Blewitt, composer and son of Jonas Blewitt (died 1853)
 * July 26 – John Field, pianist and composer (died 1837)
 * September 23 – Jacques Féréol Mazas, composer and musician (died 1849)
 * October 27 – Niccolò Paganini, composer, violinist (died 1840)
 * December 21 – Benoit Tranquille Berbiguier, flautist (died 1835)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Johann Christian Bach, composer (b. 1735)
 * April 12 – Metastasio, poet and lyricist (b. 1698)
 * April 22 – Josef Ferdinand Norbert Seger, composer (b. 1716)
 * May – Joseph Kelway, composer and organist (born c. 1702)
 * May 6 – Herman Friedrich Voltmar, Danish composer (born 1707)
 * June 17 – Kane O'Hara, Irish composer (b. 1711)
 * July 15 – Robert Wainwright, composer
 * August – Jean-Baptiste Forqueray, viol player and composer (b. 1699)
 * August 6 – Nicolas Chédeville, composer (b. 1705)
 * September 16 – Farinelli, castrato singer (b. 1702)
 * October – John Parry, blind harpist (b. c. 1710)
 * October 23 – Joseph Riepel, German composer (born 1709)
 * December 28 – Maria Carolina of Savoy, composer and princess (born 1764)
 * date unknown
 * Pedro António Avondano, Portuguese composer (b. 1714)
 * Jacob Raphael Saraval, writer and musician (b. c. 1707)