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
  • Symphony No. 99
  • 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)^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• July 26 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer (born 1702)^[3]
• 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)