1764 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where the 8-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach and writes his First Symphony.[1]
  • Autumn – Following the death of his patron Keyserlingk, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.[2]
  • date unknown – The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.[3]
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Kapellmeister at the court of Adam Patachich in Großwardein, replacing Michael Haydn and restructuring the orchestra of the bishop's palace.
  • The Temple of Comus or Every Gentleman and Lady's Beard, Brent and Lowe: Being Songs for the Year 1764[4]

Classical music

  • Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Trios, Op. 2
  • Michel Corrette – Carillon, ajouté à la Messe des Morts de Gilles
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Symphony No.14 in A major
    • Symphony No.15 in D major
    • Symphony No.21 in A major
    • Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")[5]
    • Symphony No.23 in G major
    • Symphony No.24 in D major
    • Divertimento in C major Hob. XIV:4
    • Qual dubbio o(r)mai
  • Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto[6]
  • Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe[7]
  • Joseph Kelway – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.8
    • Violin Sonata in C major, K.14
    • Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, K.16
  • Johann Baptist Georg Neruda – 6 Trio Sonatas
  • Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Six sonates d'un goût agréable..., published posthumously
  • Johann Schobert – 3 Harpsichord Quartets, Op. 7

Opera

  • Florian Leopold Gassmann – L'Olimpiade
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
  • Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
  • Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna[8]
  • Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Rose et Colas
  • Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Egeria

Methods and theory writings

  • Daniel Bayley – A New and Compleat Introduction to the Grounds and Rules of Musick[9]
  • L'Abbé Duval – Principes de la musique pratique
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Traité des accords et de leur succession selon le système de la Basse-fondamentale
  • Valentin Roeser – Essai d'instruction à l'usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor
  • Francisco Inácio Solano – Nova instrucção musical, ou theorica pratica da musica rythmica

Births

  • January 13 – Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)[10]
  • March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
  • March 2 – Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist (died 1836)
  • May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
  • September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
  • October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
  • November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
  • unknown date
    • Alexander Campbell, musician and writer (died 1824)
    • Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
  • probable
    • Bernard Lorenziti, French composer (died after 1815)
    • Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)

Deaths

  • March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)[11]
  • April 17
    • Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich, composer (born 1687)
    • Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)[12]
  • buried June 6 – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1686)[13]
  • September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)[14]
  • September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)[15]
  • October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered)[16]
  • October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)[17]
  • date unknown
    • Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)[18]
    • Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690) [19]

References

  1. ↑ Robert Dearling (1982). The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Symphonies. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8386-2335-0.
  2. ↑ Christopher Hogwood (12 June 2003). The Keyboard in Baroque Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-0-521-81055-5.
  3. ↑ Charles J. Hall (April 1990). An eighteenth-century musical chronicle: events 1750-1799. Greenwood Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-313-26576-1.
  4. ↑ George Watson (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 1968. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1.
  5. ↑ Denis Montague De Coteau (1965). Symphony, no. 22, in E flat major (Der Philosoph), by Franz Joseph Haydn. Department of Music. p. 23.
  6. ↑ Ivan March; Edward Greenfield; Robert Layton; Paul Czajkowski (26 October 2004). The Penguin guide to compact discs and DVDs yearbook. Penguin. p. 491. ISBN 978-0-14-051523-7.
  7. ↑ Here Publishing (28 April 1998). The Advocate. Here Publishing. p. 77.
  8. ↑ Enciclopedia dello spettacolo (in Italian). Unedi-Unione editoriale. 1975. p. 390.
  9. ↑ Richard Crawford (1984). The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-89579-198-6.
  10. ↑ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Easter-Myste res. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 433.
  11. ↑ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  12. ↑ Ruth Tatlow; Ruth Mary Tatlow (21 February 1991). Bach and the Riddle of the Number Alphabet. Cambridge University Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-521-36191-0.
  13. ↑ Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 660. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  14. ↑ Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
  15. ↑ Jean Philippe Rameau; Roger Lee Briscoe (1975). Rameau's Démonstration Du Principe de L'harmonie and Nouvelles Réflexions de M. Rameau Sur Sa Démonstration Du Principe de L'harmonie. Indiana University. p. 13.
  16. ↑ Joseph P. Swain (6 June 2013). Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8108-7825-9.
  17. ↑ Charles Dudley Warner; John William Cunliffe; Ashley Horace Thorndike (1917). The Warner Library. Warner Library Company. p. 549.
  18. ↑ Enciclopèdia Espasa Vol. 35, page 766 (ISBN 84 239-4535-9)
  19. ↑ Concerto: Das Magazin für Alte Musik (in German). Gitarre & Laute. 1997. p. 40.
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