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
• *6 Minuets, WoO 9
• *Im Arm der Liebe ruht sich's wohl, WoO 159
• *Three Piano Trios, Op. 1
• *String Quintet in E-flat major, Op.4
• *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
• 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
• Ignaz Pleyel – Keyboard Trio in D major, B.461
• Joseph Reicha – Concerto Concertant, Op. 3
• Giovanni Battista Viotti – Violin Concerto No.24 in B minor
• Friedrich Witt – Horn concerto in E major

  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
• :De:Heinrich Christoph Koch|Heinrich Christoph Koch – Über den Charakter der Solo- und Ripienstimmen

  Births

• March 14 – Robert Lucas de Pearsall, composer
• April 14 – Pedro Albéniz, pianist and composer
• June 13 – Anton Felix Schindler, biographer of Beethoven
• August 16 – Heinrich Marschner, composer
• August 17 – Pierre-Louis Parisis, dedicatee and bishop
• September 16 – Saverio Mercadante, Italian composer
• September 29 – Kondraty Ryleyev, lyricist and poet
• October 31 – John Keats, lyricist and poet
• November 17 – Antonio Bagioli, composer and music teacher
• December 10 – Kaspar Kummer, composer and flautist
• date unknown
• *Friedrich August Belcke, trombonist
• *Johann Christoph Biernatzki, librettist and writer
• *Joseph Böhm, violinist and music teacher
• *Jeanne-Catherine Pauwels, Belgian pianist

  Deaths

• January 19 – Maria Teresa Agnesi, Italian composer
• January 21 – Michel Corrette, organist and composer
• January 26 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer
• February 11 – Carl Michael Bellman, composer
• March 5 – Josef Reicha, cellist, conductor and composer
• May 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, composer and music critic
• July – Ranieri de' Calzabigi, librettist
• August 19 – Friedrich Hartmann Graf, German composer
• September 22 – Sayat-Nova, composer and musician
• October 3 – John Christopher Smith, English composer
• October 11 – Franz Christoph Neubauer, German composer
• October 25 – Francesco Antonio Baldassare Uttini, Italian composer
• November 6 – Georg Benda, composer
• November 19 – Thomas Linley the elder, conductor and composer
• December 6 – Sofia Liljegren, Finnish soprano