1792 in music

Events

• April 13 – Joseph Martin Kraus's Symphonie funèbre is played at the funeral of Gustavus III of Sweden.
• May 16 – La Fenice in Venice is inaugurated with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera I giuochi d'Agrigento.
• July 11–14 – The Belfast Harp Festival in Ireland brings together and records the work of most of the remaining traditional players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken and Edward Bunting transcribes the music.

  Bands disbanded

• The Academy of Ancient Music

  Popular Music

• "Ye brave sons of Britain" by William Parsons
• "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
• "The Irish Washerwoman" trad. Irish

  Classical Music

• Claude Balbastre – Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ça-ira
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• *"An Laura", for voice and piano, WoO 112
• *"An Minna", for voice and piano, WoO 115
• *Rondino for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major, WoO 25
• *Duo for 2 Flutes, WoO 26
• *Six Variations on a Swiss song for piano or harp, WoO 64
• *Trinklied, WoO 109
• *Variations on an original theme in E major for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 44
• *Octet for winds in E major, Op. 103
• Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Trios, Op. 28
• Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Concerto No.4, Op. 17
• Josef Gelinek – 6 Variations on 'Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen'
• Joseph Haydn
• *Symphony No. 94
• *Symphony No. 97
• *Symphony No. 98
• *12 Minuets, Hob.IX:11
• *150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no. 1
• Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphonie funebre in C minor
• Friedrich Wilhelm Pannenberg – Zwölf Sleiver und zwey Quadrille
• Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
• *Symphony in D major, StWV 128
• *Symphony in B-flat major, StWV 129
• *3 Violin Sonatas, StWV 198

  Opera

• Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt – Telemak på Calypsos
• Domenico Cimarosa – Il Matrimonio Segreto
• Giuseppe Farinelli – I dotorato di Pulcinella
• Louis Emmanuel Jadin – Amélie de Montfort
• Etienne Méhul – Stratonice

  Methods and theory writings

• John Wall Callcott – An Explanation of the Notes, Marks, Words, etc. Used in Music
• Johann Adam Hiller
• * Anweisung zum Violinspielen
• * Kurze und erleichterte Anweisung zum Singen
• Christian Kalkbrenner – Kurzer Abriß der Geschichte der Tonkunst
• Andrew Law – The Art of Singing

  Births

• February 29 – Gioacchino Rossini, composer
• March 11 – Natale Abbadia, composer
• August 28 – Karolina Bock, singer, actress, dancer, drama teacher
• October 2 – Cipriani Potter, pianist and composer
• October 13 – Moritz Hauptmann, writer and composer
• date unknown – Matteo Carcassi, guitarist and composer

  Deaths

• February 25 – Thomas Moore, composer and poet
• February 29 – Johann Andreas Stein, maker of keyboard instruments
• June 28 – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer
• June 30 – Antonio Rosetti, double bass player and composer
• October 11 – Gaetano Guadagni, castrato singer
• November 29 – Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, composer
• December 15 – Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
• December 18 – Johann van Beethoven, singer, father of Ludwig van Beethoven
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Casali, choir-master and choral composer
• *Mian Ghulam Nabi Shori, composer of Hindustani classical music