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The year 1791 in music involved some significant events. ==Events== *January 1 – Austrian composer Joseph Haydn arrives in England at the invitation of London resident impresario Johann Peter Salomon; here his concerts are huge successes. On March 11, the first of his London symphonies, Symphony No. 96, is premièred at the Hanover Square Rooms. On July 8 he is awarded an honorary doctorate of music at the University of Oxford and probably conducts his Symphony No. 92 in the Sheldonian Theatre as part of the ceremonials.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=1791-1795: The London Journeys )〕 *Mid-July – An emissary of Count Franz von Walsegg commissions a ''Requiem'' for the late Countess Anna from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. *August 24 – Official opening of the Teatro Riccardi opera house in Bergamo, Lombardy, with a production of Pietro Metastasio's ''Didone abbandonata'' set to music by multiple composers including Ferdinando Bertoni, Giacomo Rampini, Johann Gottlieb Naumann, Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giovanni Paisiello. *September 6 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''opera seria'' ''La clemenza di Tito'' ("The Clemency of Titus", K. 621, with libretto adapted by Caterino Mazzolà after Metastasio) at the Estates Theatre in Prague with Mozart conducting and the castrato Domenico Bedini playing Sesto. It has been written in around 18 days (after most of ''The Magic Flute'' has been completed) to a commission by Domenico Guardasoni to mark the coronation of Leopold II as King of Bohemia, after Salieri has declined the commission. *September 30 – Première of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's ''Singspiel'' opera ''The Magic Flute'' (''Die Zauberflöte'', K. 620) at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in suburban Vienna with Mozart conducting, probably from the keyboard,〔Ignaz von Seyfried, ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'', 5 June 1840, 12:184.〕 the librettist (and theatre proprietor) Emanuel Schikaneder playing Papageno and Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer playing the Queen of the Night. *December 5 (01:00) – Death of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, age 35, at his home in Vienna of fever; on a mild and misty December 7, following a funeral service in St. Stephen's Cathedral, he is buried in a common grave (as customary at this time) in St. Marx Cemetery in the presence of Salieri, Süssmayr, van Swieten (his patron) and two other musicians.〔Otto Jahn, ''Biographie Mozarts'', 1856.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1791 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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