1770 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

  • The "Concert des Amateurs" was 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

  • 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

References

  1. ↑ Aaron Shearer (March 1985). Classic Guitar Technique. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-89898-572-6.
  2. ↑ Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.
  3. ↑ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  4. ↑ Eduard Bernsdorf (1857). Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.
  5. ↑ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
  6. ↑ "When is Beethoven's birthday?". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
  7. ↑ Philip H. Highfill, Jr.; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (December 1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Abaco to Belfille. SIU Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8093-0517-9.
  8. ↑ Maunder, Richard (1998). Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna. Clarendon Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-19-816637-5.
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