1792 in music

Events

• January 26 – Harriet Wainwright's opera Comala is performed at the Hanover Square Rooms in London. Charles Burney and Joseph Haydn are in the audience and praise the work.
• April 13 – Joseph Martin Kraus's Symphonie funèbre is played at the funeral of Gustavus III of Sweden.
• May 16 – La Fenice in Venice is inaugurated with a performance of Giovanni Paisiello's opera I giuochi d'Agrigento.
• July 11–14 – The Belfast Harp Festival in Ireland brings together and records the work of most of the remaining traditional players of the clàrsach. It is organised by Dr. James McDonnell, Robert Bradshaw and Henry Joy McCracken in the Assembly Rooms, Belfast, and Edward Bunting is one of three transcribers of the music.

Bands disbanded

• The Academy of Ancient Music (formed 1726)

Popular Music

• "Ye brave sons of Britain" by William Parsons
• "Chant de guerre pour l'armée du Rhin" aka "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle

Classical music

• Claude Balbastre – Marche des Marseillois et l'air Ça-ira
• Ludwig van Beethoven
• "An Laura", for voice and piano, WoO 112
• "An Minna", for voice and piano, WoO 115
• Rondino for oboes, clarinets, horns, and bassoons in E-flat major, WoO 25
• Duo for 2 Flutes, WoO 26
• Six Variations on a Swiss song for piano or harp, WoO 64
• Trinklied, WoO 109
• Variations on an original theme in E major for violin, cello, and piano, Op. 44
• Octet for winds in E major, Op. 103
• Muzio Clementi – 3 Piano Trios, Op. 28
• Jan Ladislav Dussek – Piano Concerto No.4, Op. 17
• Josef Gelinek – 6 Variations on "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen"
• Joseph Haydn
• Symphony No. 94
• Symphony No. 97
• Symphony No. 98
• 12 Minuets, Hob.IX:11
• 150 Scottish Songs, Hob.XXXIa:1–150
• Johann Nepomuk Hummel – Trio for piano, violin and cello, no. 1
• Joseph Martin Kraus – Symphonie funebre in C minor
• Friedrich Wilhelm Pannenberg – Zwölf Sleiver und zwey Quadrille
• Johann Franz Xaver Sterkel
• Symphony in D major, StWV 128
• Symphony in B-flat major, StWV 129
• 3 Violin Sonatas, StWV 198

Opera

• Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt – Telemak pÃ¥ Calypsos
• Domenico Cimarosa – Il Matrimonio Segreto
• Giuseppe Farinelli – '
• Louis Emmanuel Jadin – Amélie de Montfort
• Etienne Méhul – Stratonice