1764 in music explained

Events

• April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach.^[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 – Portuguese: 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]

Notes and References

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