1795 in music

Events

 * Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna following second London visit.
 * Franz Krommer settles in Vienna.
 * Ludwig van Beethoven makes his public performance debut as a pianist

Opera

 * Louis Emmanuel Jadin Le Cabaleur
 * Vicente Martín y Soler – La Capricciosa Correta
 * Antonio Salieri – Palmira

Classical music

 * Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – 6 String Trios, Op. 9
 * Ludwig van Beethoven
 * 12 Minuets, WoO 7
 * German Dances, WoO 8
 * 6 Minuets, WoO 9
 * 6 Minuets, WoO 10
 * Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', WoO 28
 * 9 Variations on 'Quant'e piu bello', WoO 69
 * 6 Variations on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento', WoO 70
 * Im Arm der Liebe ruht sich's wohl, WoO 159
 * Three Piano Trios, Op. 1
 * String Quintet in E-flat major, Op.4
 * Sextet in E-flat major, Op.81b
 * Rondo a capriccio, Op.129
 * Muzio Clementi – 2 Piano Sonatas and 2 Capriccios, Op. 34
 * Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 4
 * Adalbert Gyrowetz
 * Three Flute Quartets, Op. 11
 * 3 String Quartets, Op. 19
 * Thomas Haigh – 3 Keyboard Sonatas, Op. 10
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Symphonies 103 in E-flat "Drum Roll" and 104 in D "London"
 * Piano Trios Op. 82, Including XV:24, 25, 26
 * Piano Trio in E-flat minor, Hob.XV:31
 * 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150 (Volume III, 101–150)
 * Heinrich Anton Hoffmann – 3 String Quartets, Op. 3
 * Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Piano Sonata No. 8
 * Hyacinthe Jadin
 * 3 String Quartets, Op. 1
 * 3 Piano Sonatas, Op. 4
 * Hans Georg Nägeli – Freut euch des Lebens (song)
 * Ignaz Pleyel – Keyboard Trio in D major, B.461
 * Joseph Reicha – Concerto Concertant, Op. 3
 * Daniel Gottlob Turk – 120 Handstücke für angehende Klavierspieler, Vol 2.
 * Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.24 in B minor
 * Friedrich Witt – Horn concerto in E major
 * Francesco Molino - 3 Guitar Sonatas, Op.6

Methods and theory writings

 * Johann Ernst Altenburg – Versuch einer Anleitung zur heroisch-musikalischen Trompeter und Pauker-Kunst
 * Giuseppe Aprile – The Modern Italian Method of Singing
 * Giuseppe Maria Cambini – Méthode pour la flûte traversiere
 * Justin Heinrich Knecht – Vollständige Orgelschule
 * Heinrich Christoph Koch – Über den Charakter der Solo- und Ripienstimmen

Births

 * January 18 – Joseph Merk, cellist (died 1852)
 * March 14 – Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer (died 1856)
 * March 23 – Leopold Jansa, composer (died 1875)
 * April 4 – Joseph Böhm, violinist and music teacher (died 1876)
 * April 14 – Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer (died 1855)
 * June 13 – Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven (died 1864)
 * May 27 – Friedrich August Belcke, trombonist (died 1874)
 * August 16 – Heinrich Marschner, composer (died 1861)
 * August 17 – Pierre-Louis Parisis, dedicatee and bishop (died 1866)
 * September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer (died 1870)
 * September 29 – Kondraty Ryleyev, lyricist and poet (died 1826)
 * October 17 – Johann Christoph Biernatzki, librettist and writer (died 1840)
 * October 31 – John Keats, lyricist and poet (died 1821)
 * November 17 – Antonio Bagioli, composer and music teacher (died 1871)
 * December 10 – Kaspar Kummer, composer and flautist (died 1870)
 * date unknown – Jeanne-Catherine Pauwels, Belgian pianist (died 1889)

Deaths

 * January 19 – Maria Teresa Agnesi, Italian composer (born 1720)
 * January 21 – Michel Corrette, organist and composer (b. 1707)
 * January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer (b. 1732)
 * February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, composer (b. 1740)
 * March 5 – Josef Reicha, cellist, conductor and composer (b. 1752)
 * May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic (b. 1718)
 * July – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist (b. 1714)
 * August 19 – Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer (born 1727)
 * August 31 – François-André Danican Philidor, French composer and chess player (born 1726)
 * September 22 – Sayat-Nova, composer and musician (born 1712)
 * October 3 – John Christopher Smith, English composer (born 1712)
 * October 11 – Franz Christoph Neubauer, German composer (born 1750)
 * October 25 – Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini, Italian composer (born 1723)
 * November 6 – Georg Benda, composer (b. 1722)
 * November 19 – Thomas Linley the elder, conductor and composer (b. 1733)
 * December 6 – Sofia Liljegren, Finnish soprano (b. 1765)