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- Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
becomes Kapellmeister to the Esterházys. The orchestra is increased to 22 players. - Niccolò PiccinniNiccolò PiccinniNiccolò Piccinni was an Italian composer of symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, and opera. Although he is somewhat obscure, even to music lovers today, Piccinni was one of the most popular composers of opera—particularly the Neapolitan opera buffa—of his day...
is invited to Paris by Queen Marie AntoinetteMarie AntoinetteMarie Antoinette ; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France and of Navarre. She was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I....
. - Dom Bédos de CellesDom Bédos de CellesFrançois Lamathe Bédos de Celles de Salelles, known as Dom Bédos de Celles, was a Benedictine monk best known for being a master pipe organ builder.He was born in Caux, Hérault, near Béziers, France...
publishes his influential L'art du facteur d'orgues.
Opera
- Egidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo DuniEgidio Romualdo Duni was an Italian composer who studied in Naples and worked in Italy, France and London, writing both Italian and French operas....
– La clochette - Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
– La CanterinaLa canterinaLa canterina , Hob. 28/2, is a short, two act opera buffa by Joseph Haydn, the first one he wrote for Prince Esterhazy. Based on the intermezzo from the third act of Niccolò Piccinni's opera L'Origille , it lasts about 50 minutes...
(libretto by an unknown, based on material by Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
) - Johann Adam Hiller – Der lustige Schuster
Classical music
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Pieces (40) for Keyboard, Wq 117: no 2, Solfeggio in C minor, H 220
- Capel BondCapel BondCapel Bond was an English organist and composer.He was born in Gloucester, the son of William Bond and the younger brother of painter and japanner Daniel Bond . He received his education at the Crypt school with his uncle, Rev...
– Six Concertos in Seven Parts - Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
– Great Mass in E flat - Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
– Symphony in B flat major - Niccolò JommelliNiccolò JommelliNiccolò Jommelli was an Italian composer. He was born in Aversa and died in Naples. Along with other composers mainly in the Holy Roman Empire and France, he made important changes to opera and reduced the importance of star singers.-Early life:Jommelli was born to Francesco Antonio Jommelli and...
– Missa Solemne
Births
- February 24 – Samuel WesleySamuel WesleySamuel Wesley was an English organist and composer in the late Georgian period. Wesley was a contemporary of Mozart and was called by some "the English Mozart."-Personal life:...
, organist and composer (died 1837) - March 28 – Joseph WeiglJoseph WeiglJoseph Weigl , was an Austrian composer and conductor.The son of Joseph Franz Weigl , the principal cellist in the orchestra of the Esterházy family, he was born in Eisenstadt and studied music under Johann Georg Albrechtsberger and Antonio Salieri...
, composer and conductor (died 1820) - July 18 – Johann Anton Friedrich FleischmannJohann Anton Friedrich FleischmannJohann Friedrich Anton Fleischmann was a German composer....
, composer (died 1798) - July 21 – Carolina, Baroness NairneCarolina, Baroness NairneCarolina Nairne, née Oliphant, Lady Nairne was a Scottish songwriter and song collector.-Life:Carolina Oliphant was born in the auld hoose of Gask, Perthshire. She was descended from Clan Oliphant, an old family which had settled in Perthshire in the 13th century, and could boast of kinship with...
, Scottish songwriter (died 1845) - August 1 – Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist and composer (died 1839)
- August 22 – Joseph-Denis Doche, composer (died 1825)
- October 9 – Bedřich Diviš WeberBedrich Diviš WeberBedřich Diviš Weber , also known by the German form of his name, Friedrich Dionys Weber, was a Bohemian composer and musicologist primarily remembered as the first Director of the Prague Conservatory, in whose foundation he played a leading role.Weber studied philosophy and law in Prague...
, composer and founding principal of the Prague ConservatoryPrague ConservatoryPrague Conservatory, sometimes also Prague Conservatoire, in Czech Pražská konzervatoř, is a Czech secondary school in Prague dedicated to teaching the arts of music and theater acting.- Instruction :...
(died 1842) - November 16 – Rodolphe KreutzerRodolphe KreutzerRodolphe Kreutzer was a German violinist, teacher, conductor, and composer of forty French operas.-Biography:...
, violinist and composer (died 1831) - November 20 – John Wall CallcottJohn Wall CallcottJohn Wall Callcott was an eminent English musical composer.Callcott was born in Kensington, London. He was a pupil of Haydn, and is celebrated mainly for his glee compositions and "catches". In the best known of his catches he ridiculed Sir John Hawkins' History of Music...
, composer (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 30 – Susannah Maria ArneSusannah Maria ArneSusannah Maria Cibber , also known as Susannah Maria Arne, was a celebrated English singer and actress and the sister of the composer Thomas Arne. Although she began her career as a soprano, her voice lowered in the early part of her career to that of a true contralto...
, singer (born 1714) - February 26 – August Bernhard Valentin HerbingAugust Bernhard Valentin HerbingAugust Bernhard Valentin Herbing was a German organist and composer.-Life:Son of Johann Georg Herbing , who was his first teacher. In 1755 he was assistant organist of the cathedral of Magdeburg...
, composer (born 1735) - March 3 – Gregor WernerGregor Werner-Career:Werner was born in Ybbs an der Donau. He served from 1715 to either 1716 or 1721 as the organist at Melk Abbey. During the 1720s he was in Vienna, where he may have studied with Johann Fux and was married on 27 January 1727....
, composer and leader of Prince Paul Esterházy's orchestra (born 1693) - March 25 – Johannes Ritschel, composer (born 1739)
- October 7 – André ChéronAndré ChéronAndré Chéron was a French chess player, endgame theorist, and a composer of endgame studies. He lived in Switzerland for many years...
, composer (born 1695) - November 9 – Unico Wilhelm van WassenaerUnico Wilhelm van WassenaerUnico Willem van Wassenaer, Count of the Empire, was a Dutch diplomat and composer....
, composer (born 1692) - December – Carlo TessariniCarlo TessariniCarlo Tessarini , was an Italian composer and violinist in the late Baroque era.Tessarini was born 1690 in Rimini and died in Amsterdam, Netherlands aged 76.- Works :...
, violinist and composer (born c. 1690) - date unknown
- François Étienne Blanchet II, harpsichord maker (born 1730)
- Girolamo GiustiGirolamo GiustiGirolamo Alvise Giusti was an Italian libretto writer.Luigi Giusti was born in Venice some time in 1709...
, librettist (born 1709) - Giovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista PescettiGiovanni Battista Pescetti was an organist and composer. Born in Venice around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time...
, organist and composer (born c. 1704)