1770 in music explained

Events

• The "Concert des Amateurs" is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.
• Ballet is performed the first time in Oslo by Madame Stuart.
• Musikalisches Vielerley is published; a collection of pieces from various composers, edited by CPE Bach. (Hamburg: Michael Christian Bock)

Classical music

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Fantasia in D minor, H.224
  • • Johann Christian Bach 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 7
  • 6 Quartets, Op. 8
• Luigi Boccherini – Cello Concerto in D major, G.479
• Joseph Haydn – Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:2
• Gabriele Leone – Six sonatas for mandolin and bass marked with signs according to the new method, Op. 2
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony 11
• Pietro Nardini – Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo

Methods and theory writings

• Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing the Harpsichord
• John Holden – An Essay Towards a Rational System of Music

Operas

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Paride ed Elena, Wq.39

Published popular music

• William Billings – The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song Chester.

Births

• February 18 – Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer (died 1846)
• February 20 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer (died 1841)^[1]
• February 22 – Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer^[2] (died 1839)
• February 26 – Antoine Reicha, composer (died 1836)
• May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, violinist and composer (died 1851)
• June 4 – James Hewitt, composer (died 1827)
• November 8 – Friedrich Witt, composer^[3] (died 1836)
• November 29 – Peter Hänsel, composer^[4]
• December 13 – John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer (died 1836)^[5]
• December 15 or December 16 (baptized on December 17) – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer and pianist (died 1827)^[6]
• December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer

Deaths

• February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer, 77
• April 19 – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, composer, 74
• May 9 – Charles Avison, composer, 61^[7]
• October 1 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, 64
• December 9 – Gottlieb Muffat, organist and composer, 80^[8]
• December 13 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ-builder, 61

Notes and References

1. Book: Aaron Shearer. Classic Guitar Technique. March 1985. Alfred Music Publishing. 978-0-89898-572-6. 70.
2. [Don Randel]
3. Book: David Mason Greene. Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. 1985. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd.. 978-0-385-14278-6. 442.
4. Book: Eduard Bernsdorf. Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner .... 1857. Robert Schäfer. 298.
5. Book: Maggie Humphreys. Robert Evans. Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. 1 January 1997. A&C Black. 978-0-7201-2330-2. 66.
6. Web site: When is Beethoven's birthday? . 2022-03-22 . Classic FM . en.
7. Book: Philip H. Highfill, Jr.. Kalman A. Burnim. Edward A. Langhans. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Abaco to Belfille. December 1973. SIU Press. 978-0-8093-0517-9. 180.
8. Book: Richard . Maunder . Richard Maunder . Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna. 1998. Clarendon Press. 978-0-19-816637-5. 230.