1796 in music
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Events
- The father of Gioachino Rossini is imprisoned for collaborating with the French, and Rossini's mother takes him to Bologna.
Classical Music
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 2 in F minor, A and C
- Muzio Clementi
- Concerto for piano in C major
- Three Piano Sonatas, Op. 35
- Joseph Haydn – Missa in tempore belli ("Mass in Time of War") and Trumpet Concerto in E Flat Major
Opera
- Nicolas Dalayrac – Marianne
- Johann Simon Mayr – La Lodoiska
- Gaspare Spontini – Li puntigli delle donne
- Peter Winter – Das unterbrochene Opferfest
Births
- February 17 – Giovanni Pacini, composer (died 1867)
- June 14 – Mathilda d'Orozco, composer (died 1863)
- July 23 – Franz Berwald, composer (died 1868)
- July 28 – Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer (died 1859)
- August 25 – James Lick, piano builder (died 1876)
- August 27 – Elise Barensfeld, soprano (died after 1820)
- September 3 – Henriette Widerberg, soprano (died 1872)
- November 30 – Carl Loewe, German composer (died 1869)
Deaths
- January 1 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, chemist and musician, 60
- February 16 (or April 16) – Caterina Gabrielli, operatic soprano, 65
- March 19 – Stephen Storace, composer, 33
- June 8 – Felice Giardini, violinist and composer, 80
- October 17 – Franz Paul Rigler, composer and piano virtuoso (born c.1748)
- October 31 – Thomas Haxby, musical instrument maker, 67
- date unknown
- Luffman Atterbury, carpenter, builder and musician
- Samuel Green, organ builder (born 1740)
- Nicola Sabatino, composer (born 1705)
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