1793 in music

Events

 * September 25 – The Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the "black Mozart", loses his command and is imprisoned at Houdainville.
 * Niccolò Paganini debuts as a violin virtuoso at age 11 in his birthplace of Genoa.
 * Westminster Quarters first written, for the bells of a new clock at the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge, by Prof. Joseph Jowett, probably with Prof. John Randall or William Crotch.

Popular Music

 * Nehemiah Shumway – The American Harmony, including "Schenectady"
 * George Thomson – A Select Collection of Original Scottish Airs for the Voice

Classical music

 * Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier – Variations on La Marseillaise
 * Ludwig van Beethoven – Ein Selbstgespräch, WoO 114
 * Domenico Cimarosa – Concerto for 2 Flutes in G major, G.1077
 * Muzio Clementi
 * 3 Piano Trios, Op. 29
 * 3 Piano Trios, Op. 32
 * Jan Ladislav Dussek
 * 6 Piano Sonatinas, Op. 19
 * Piano Concerto No.5, Op. 22
 * The Sufferings of the Queen of France, Op. 23
 * Joseph Haydn
 * String Quartets, Opp. 71 & 74 "Apponyi"
 * Variations in F minor
 * 12 German Dances, Hob.IX:10
 * Piano Trio in G major, Hob.XV:32
 * Michael Haydn – Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae
 * Leopold Kozeluch – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 38
 * Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.26 in B-flat major
 * Paul Wranitzky
 * Concerto for Flute in D major, Op. 24
 * Six String Quartets, Op. 23

Opera

 * Felice Alessandri – Virginia
 * Samuel Arnold – The Mountaineers
 * Thomas Attwood – Ozmyn and Daraxa
 * François-Adrien Boïeldieu – La fille coupable
 * Domenico Cimarosa – I traci amanti
 * Francesco Gardi – Pirro
 * Johann Baptist Henneberg – Die Waldmänner
 * Étienne Méhul – Le jeune sage et le vieux fou
 * Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Erwin und Elmire
 * Josef Seger – 8 Toccatas and Fugues
 * Daniel Steibelt – Roméo et Juliette

Methods and theory writings

 * Pierre Baillot – Méthode de Violon
 * Joseph Frike – A Guide in Harmony
 * Othon-Joseph Vandenbroek – Traité général de tous les instruments à vent
 * Georg Joseph Vogler – Verbesserung der Forkel’schen Veränderungen über 'God save the King'

Births

 * January 18 – William Henry Havergal, hymn-writer and composer (d. 1870)
 * February 14 – William Crathern, composer of sacred music (d. c.1851)
 * February 27 – Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer (d. 1861)
 * July 22 – Eugène Walckiers, composer (died 1866)
 * August 21 – Peter Casper Krossing, composer (d. 1838)
 * September 2 – Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer (d. 1878)
 * December 26 – François Hünten, composer (died 1878)
 * date unknown – William Bartholomew, arranger and composer (died 1867)

Deaths

 * January 24 (bur.) – Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler (b. 1696)
 * March 17 – Leopold Hofmann, composer (b. 1738)
 * May 3 – Martin Gerbert, music writer (b. 1720)
 * May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer (b. 1722)
 * July 26 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer (born 1702)
 * September 10 – Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, opera composer (b. 1742)
 * September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer (b. 1734)
 * October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer (b. 1726)
 * October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer (b. 1710)
 * date unknown
 * Philip Phile, violinist and composer (b. c.1734)
 * Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)