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The year 1791 in music involved some significant events.

Events

• Joseph Haydn is brought to London by Johann Peter Salomon.

Classical music

• Franz Anton Hoffmeister - String Quartet in F
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem
• Franz Xaver Süssmayr - Concerto Movement in D major for Basset Horn

Opera

The following operas were composed:

• Marcello Bernardini - L'amore per incanto
• Luigi Cherubini - Lodoïska
• Étienne Méhul - Alonzo et Cora
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) first performed in Vienna (libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La clemenza di Tito first performed in Prague (Estates Theatre) (libretto by Metastasio)
• William Shield - The Woodman

Births

• January 28 - Ferdinand Hérold
• February 20 - Carl Czerny, composer
• March 9 - Nicolas Levasseur, operatic bass
• May 11 - Jan Václav Voříšek, pianist, organist and composer
• May 29 - Pietro Romani
• July 26 - Francisco José Debali, composer
• September 5 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, composer
• October 31 - Ferdinand Huber

Deaths

• February 2 - Frantisek Kotzwara, double bassist and composer (b. 1730) (erotic asphyxiation)
• February 5 - John Beard, operatic tenor (b. c. 1717)
• March 22 - Carlo Besozzi, oboist and composer (b. 1738)
• May 14 - Francesca Lebrun, singer and composer (b. 1756)
• August 25 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, harpsichordist and composer (b. 1707)
• December 5 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer (b. 1756)
• date unknown - Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer (b. 1695)