1760 in music

Niccolò Piccinni
List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • November 26 – Joseph Haydn marries Maria Anna Keller,[1] but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
  • John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
  • Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel, by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
  • John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
  • Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.
  • John Garth publishes his Op. 1 cello concertos (written over the previous decade), the first time such compositions have been published in Britain.[2]
  • Johann Baptist Wanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

    Opera

    • Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
    • Johann Christian Bach – Artaserse
    • Nicola Porpora - "Il trionfo di Camilla"
    • Johann Adolph Hasse – Alcide al Bivio
    • Vincenzo Manfredini – Semiramide
    • Niccolò Piccinni – La buona figliuola
    • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Paladins

    Classical music

    • Johann Albrechtsberger – String Quartet in D
    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
      • Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, H.75.5
      • Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (published, Berlin; composed 1758–59)
    • William Boyce – Eight Symphonies, op. 2 (published, London: John Walsh; composed over the previous 21 years)
    • François Joseph Gossec – Grande Messe des Morts
    • Joseph Haydn
      • Symphony No.25 in C major, Hob.I:25
      • Partita in B-flat major, Hob.XVI:2
      • Partita in E major, Hob.XVI:13 (attribution in question)
    • Michael Haydn – Concerto for Violin in B-flat major
    • Pierre Hugard – La Toilette, suites for the pardessus de viole
    • Ignacio de Jerusalem – Clarines sonad (misattributed)
    • Franz Xaver Richter
      • 6 Harpsichord Trios
      • 6 Symphonies, Op. 2
    • Christoph Schaffrath – Duetto for Bassoon and Harpsichord in F minor, CSWV F:18
    • Georg Philipp Telemann – Lukas-Passion

    Methods and theory writings

    • John Alcock, Sr. – The Life of Miss Fanny Brown
    • Giorgio Antoniotto – L'arte armonica
    • Francesco Geminiani – The Art of Playing the Guitar or Cittra
    • John Mainwaring – Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel
    • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst
    • Edward Miller – Institutes of Music, or Easy Instructions for the Harpsichord
    • Nicolo Pasquali – The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord
    • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Code de musique pratique
    • Georg Andreas Sorge
      • Anleitung zum Generalbass und zur Composition
      • Compendium Harmonicum
    • William Tans'ur – The Psalm-Singer's Jewel

    Births

    • January 10 – Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer (died 1802)
    • January 19 – Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (died 1822)
    • January 30 – Franz Xaver Partsch, Bohemian composer (died 1822)
    • February 12 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, composer (died 1812)
    • February 15 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
    • March 2 – Charlotta Cederström, born Christina Charlotta Mörner af Morlanda, Swedish patron of the arts (died 1832)
    • March 27 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (died 1832)
    • April 4 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (died 1797)
    • May 10 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
    • May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (died 1800)
    • July 11 – François-Benoît Hoffman, librettist and playwright (died 1828)
    • June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, librettist and novelist (died 1797)
    • June 14 – Cándido José Ruano, Spanish composer (died 1803)
    • July 12 – Giuseppe Foppa, Italian librettist (died 1845)
    • September 12 – Gaetano Valeri, Paduan organist and composer (died 1822)
    • September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian-born composer (died 1842)
    • September 29 – Maria Hester Park, British composer (died 1813)
    • October 1 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron of the arts and composer (died 1844)
    • November 9 – Henri-Philippe Gérard, Liègeois composer
    • November 14 – Johann Evangelist Brandl, composer (died 1837)
    • November 30 – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (d. 1831)
    • December 2 – Joseph Graetz, German composer (died 1826)

    Deaths

    • January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (born 1697)
    • February 14 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (born 1690)
    • February 22 – Anna Magdalena Bach, German singer, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
    • March 2 – François Bouvard, French composer (born 1760)
    • March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733)
    • April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer (born 1696)
    • April 24 – Michele Mascitti, music editor and violinist (born c. 1664)
    • May – Girolamo Abos, Italian composer (born 1715)
    • May 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)
    • August 8 – Henry Needler, English music transcriber (born 1685)
    • October 24 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (born 1676)
    • November 5 – Pierre Février, French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
    • Date unknown – Roque Ceruti, Italian composer (born c. 1683)

    References

    1. ↑ Haydn Festspiele.
    2. ↑ Fleming, Simon D. I. (September 2013). "John Garth: The Life of a Durham Musician". Durham County Local History Society Journal. 78: 5–18.
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