1769 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
  • Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
  • Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
  • Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
  • James Hook is appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.
  • December – 13-year-old Mozart embarks on a tour of Italy with his father, beginning in Verona.[1] In Rome he hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.

Opera

  • Jean-François Cailhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour
  • Christoph Willibald von Gluck – Le feste d'Apollo
  • André Grétry
    • Lucile
    • Le tableau parlant
  • Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le déserteur
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La finta semplice
  • Josef Mysliveček – Demofoonte
  • Giovanni Paisiello
    • L’arabo cortese, R.1.22
    • Don Chisciotte della Mancia, R.1.21
  • Niccolò Piccinni – Lo sposo burlato

Classical music

  • Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 String Quartets, Op. 8
  • Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Alto Trombone and Orchestra in B-flat major
  • Charles Avison – Six Concertos in Seven Parts, for Four Violins, One Alto Viola, a Violoncello, and a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord, Op. 10 (London: R. Bremner)
  • Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
    • Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio), H.775
    • Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.469
  • Luigi Boccherini
    • 6 Violin Sonatas, G. 25–30
    • 6 String Quartets, G. 165–170
  • João de Sousa Carvalho – L'Amore Industrioso
  • François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
  • Joseph Haydn
    • String Quartets, Op. 9
    • Violin Concerto in G major, Hob. VIIa:4
    • Piano Trio in F major, Hob.XV:2
  • Ignaz Holzbauer – 3 Symphonies, Op. 4
  • Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Vermischte Musikalien (Berlin: Georg Ludewig Winter)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Cassation in D major, K. 100/62a
    • Te Deum in C
  • Pasquale Pericoli – 6 Cello Sonatas
  • Johann Heinrich Rolle – Der Tod Abels (oratorio)
  • Johann Baptist Wanhal
    • Symphony in A minor, Bryan a2
    • Quartet for Strings in B-flat major, Op. 2, No. 3
  • Johann Adolph Hasse
    • L'Armonica
    • La Gelosia

Methods and theory writings

  • François-Joseph Lécuyer – Principes de l'art du chant

Births

  • January 2
    • Thomas Haigh, arranger and musician (died 1808)
    • Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (died 1833)
  • January 9 – William Robert Spencer, librettist and poet (died 1834)
  • February 12 – Friedrich Rochlitz, music editor and writer (died 1842)
  • February 13 – Ivan Krylov, librettist and writer (died 1844)
  • February 17 – Johannes Baptista von Albertini, librettist and botanist (died 1831)
  • March 7 – Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian composer and music educator (died 1851)
  • March 8 – Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer (died 1833)
  • March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1821)
  • March 28 – Schack von Staffeldt, librettist and poet (died 1826)
  • April 11 – Johann Georg Lickl, organist and composer (died 1843)
  • April 25 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (died 1827)
  • June 1 – Józef Elsner, composer and music teacher, Chopin's future teacher (died 1854)
  • June 5 – Marianne Kirchgessner, German musician (d. 1808)
  • June 14 – Domenico Della-Maria Italian and French composer (died 1800)
  • July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1819)
  • July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (died 1827)
  • July 29 – Louis-Benoît Picard, librettist and writer (died 1769)
  • August 14
    • Richard Barry, composer and English rake (died 1793)
    • Friedrich Dülon, flautist (died 1826)
  • August 30 – Bonifazio Asioli, Italian composer (died 1832)
  • September 8 – Marie-Martin Marcel Marin, composer (died c. 1850)
  • September 12 – Reginald Spofforth, organist, conductor and composer (died 1827)
  • November 12 – Amelia Opie, librettist and author
  • December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, librettist and antisemitic author (died 1860)
  • Date unknown –
    • Jean-Jacques Grasset, composer and violinist (died 1839)
    • Charles Hague, composer (died 1821)
    • Daniil Kashin, Russian composer (Died 1841)

Deaths

  • January 2 – James Oswald, composer, 57
  • February 21 – William Falconer, librettist and writer (born 1732)
  • April 3 – Gerhard Tersteegen, librettist and theologian (born 1697)
  • June 7 – Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, librettist, drowned (born 1735)
  • August 17 – Vasily Trediakovsky, librettist and poet
  • September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker, 69
  • December 6 – William Felton, composer, 56
  • December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, librettist and poet (born 1715)
  • date unknown – Antonio Palomba, Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist and music educator, 63

References

  1. ↑ Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0.
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