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
• February 14 – William Crathern, composer of sacred music
• February 27 – Elisabeth Frösslind, opera singer
• July 22 – Eugène Walckiers, composer
• August 21 – Peter Casper Krossing, composer
• September 2 – Caroline Ridderstolpe, composer
• December 26 – François Hünten, composer
• date unknown – William Bartholomew, arranger and composer

Deaths

• January 24 – Marged ferch Ifan, harpist and wrestler
• March 17 – Leopold Hofmann, composer
• May 3 – Martin Gerbert, music writer
• May 7 – Pietro Nardini, composer
• July 26 – Alessandro Besozzi, Italian composer
• September 10 – Marc-Antoine Désaugiers, opera composer
• September 14 – Benjamin Cooke, organist and composer
• October 21 – Johann Hartmann, composer
• October 25 – Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, composer
• date unknown
• *Philip Phile, violinist and composer
• *Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, singer and composer