1785 in music
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See also: 1784 in music, other events of 1785, 1786 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Composer Supply Belcher settles in Maine.
• Violinist Regina Strinasacchi marries Johann Conrad Schlick, cellist & konzertmeister of the Gotha ducal band.

Classical Music

• William Boyce, Ten Voluntaries
• Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in D minor
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Concerto no 20 in D minor for Piano and Orchestra
  • Davidde penitente (oratorio)
  • String quartet, "Dissonantenkwartet"
• Ignace Pleyel, String Quartet

Opera

• Gaetano Andreozzi - Giasone e Medea
• Prosper-Didier Deshayes - Le Faux serment
• Johann Friedrich Reichardt - Artemisia
• Antonio Salieri - La Grotta di Trofonio

Births

• February 2 - Isabella Colbran, coloratura soprano (d. 1845)
• March 6 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer (d. 1857)
• March 19 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer (d. 1853)
• April 4 - Bettina Brentano, composer and writer (d. 1859)
• April 19 - Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, composer (d. 1858)
• August 18 - Friedrich Wieck, piano teacher, father of Clara Schumann (d. 1873)
• September 5 - Thomas Adams, organist and composer (d. 1858)
• September 25 - George Frederic Pinto, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1805)
• November 2
  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner, pianist and composer (d. 1849)
  • Johann Leopold Fuchs, composer

Deaths

• January 3 - Baldassare Galuppi, composer (b. 1706)
• February 19 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
• May 9 - Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer
• May 10 - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer
• May 15 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, organist and composer (b. 1756)
• June 5 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer (b. 1714)
• August 31 - Pietro Chiari, librettist (b. 1712)
• October 24 - Jean-Jacques Robson, composer
• November 19 - Bernard de Bury, composer (b. 1720)
• December 8 - Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
• date unknown - Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist and composer (b. 1735)