1798 in music

Events

• July 11 – United States Marine Band established by Act of Congress.
• September 2 – Opening of the Teatro Comunale (Ferrara) in Italy with a performance of Portogallo's Gli Orazi e i Curiazi.
• Opening of the Teatro della Concordia in Iesi, Ancona, "one of the few opera houses in Italy from the late 1700s that has never been destroyed by fire or bombs".
• Completion of the first São João National Theatre in Porto, Portugal as an opera house.
• Michael Haydn takes on Carl Maria von Weber as a pupil without charge.
• First edition of Niemetschek's biography of Mozart published.

Classical music

• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13
• Joseph Eybler – Clarinet Concerto in B-flat major
• Joseph Haydn
• *The Creation
• *Missa in Angustiis
• Leopold Kozeluch – Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major
• Paul Wranitzky – Grande Sinfonie caracteristique in C minor, Op. 31

Published popular music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – ''Popular Cheshire Melodies''

Births

• January 31 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, kapellmeister and composer
• March 9 – Mathilda Berwald, Hovsångare
• October 28 – Henri Bertini, pianist and composer
• date unknown
• *Andrea Maffei, librettist
• *Louis-Désiré Véron, opera manager
• *Lovisa Charlotta Borgman, violinist

Deaths

• January 4 – Giuseppe Giordani, opera composer
• January 20 – Christian Cannabich, composer
• January 28 – Christian Gottlob Neefe, composer and conductor
• July 15 – Gaetano Pugnani, violinist
• November 30 – Friedrich Fleischmann, composer
• December 16 – Gaetano Brunetti, composer