1764 in music
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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.
Popular music
- 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
- ^ Robert Dearling (1982). The Music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – The Symphonies. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-8386-2335-0.
- ^ Christopher Hogwood (12 June 2003). The Keyboard in Baroque Europe. Cambridge University Press. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-0-521-81055-5.
- ^ Charles J. Hall (April 1990). An eighteenth-century musical chronicle: events 1750-1799. Greenwood Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-313-26576-1.
- ^ George Watson (2 July 1971). The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. Cambridge University Press. p. 1968. ISBN 978-0-521-07934-1.
- ^ Denis Montague De Coteau (1965). Symphony, no. 22, in E flat major (Der Philosoph), by Franz Joseph Haydn. Department of Music. p. 23.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Here Publishing (28 April 1998). The Advocate. Here Publishing. p. 77.
- ^ Enciclopedia dello spettacolo (in Italian). Unedi-Unione editoriale. 1975. p. 390.
- ^ Richard Crawford (1984). The Core Repertory of Early American Psalmody. A-R Editions, Inc. p. 69. ISBN 978-0-89579-198-6.
- ^ John Denison Champlin; William Foster Apthorp (1899). Easter-Myste res. C. Scribner's Sons. p. 433.
- ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Randel Don (1996). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard University Press. p. 660. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
- ^ Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. p. 346. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Joseph P. Swain (6 June 2013). Historical Dictionary of Baroque Music. Scarecrow Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-8108-7825-9.
- ^ Charles Dudley Warner; John William Cunliffe; Ashley Horace Thorndike (1917). The Warner Library. Warner Library Company. p. 549.
- ^ Enciclopèdia Espasa Vol. 35, page 766 (ISBN 84 239-4535-9)
- ^ Concerto: Das Magazin für Alte Musik (in German). Gitarre & Laute. 1997. p. 40.