1771 in music
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Events
- Foundation of the Royal Theatre Ballet School in CopenhagenCopenhagenCopenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
, DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
. - The Chevalier de Saint-GeorgesChevalier de Saint-GeorgesJoseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George was an important figures in the Paris musical scene in the second half of the 18th century as composer, conductor, and violinist. Prior to the revolution in France, he was also famous as a swordsman and equestrian...
is appointed maestro of the Concert des Amateurs in Paris. - Carl Ditters von DittersdorfCarl Ditters von Dittersdorf----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...
becomes Hoffkomponist (court composer) to Philipp Gotthard von SchaffgotschPhilipp Gotthard von SchaffgotschCount Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch was a German Prince-Bishop of Breslau and an important promoter of music.-Ecclesiastical career:...
, Prince-Bishop of Breslau, at château Jánský Vrch (Johannesberg) in Javorník.
Classical music
- Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
- String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No. 5 (G 275) (with the famous minuet)
- Symphony in D major, Op. 12 no 1/G 503
- Symphony in E flat major, Op. 12 no 2/G 504
- Symphony in C major, Op. 12 no 3/G 505
- Wolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus MozartWolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
– Symphonies no 12, 13 and 14 - Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
– Veni sponsa Christi
Opera
- Pasquale AnfossiPasquale AnfossiBonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome....
– Quinto Fabio; Lucio Papirio; I visionari - André Grétry – Zémire et Azor
- Johann Adolph HasseJohann Adolph HasseJohann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music...
– Ruggiero - Giovanni PaisielloGiovanni PaisielloGiovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era.-Life:Paisiello was born at Taranto and educated by the Jesuits there. He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and...
– Annibale in Torino - Antonio SalieriAntonio SalieriAntonio Salieri was a Venetian classical composer, conductor and teacher born in Legnago, south of Verona, in the Republic of Venice, but who spent his adult life and career as a faithful subject of the Habsburg monarchy....
– Armida
Births
- February 9 – Daniel BelknapDaniel BelknapDaniel Belknap was a farmer, mechanic, militia captain, poet and singing teacher.Belknap was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, and was one of the first American composers. He compiled four sacred tunebooks in the years 1797-1806, and also issued a book of secular songs with music...
, composer (d. 1815) - February 24 – Johann Baptist CramerJohann Baptist CramerJohann Baptist Cramer was an English musician of German origin. He was the son of Wilhelm Cramer, a famous London violinist and musical conductor, one of a numerous family who were identified with the progress of music during the 18th and 19th centuries.-Biography:Johann Baptist Cramer was born in...
, pianist (d. 1858) - March 21 – Thomas John DibdinThomas John DibdinThomas John Dibdin was an English dramatist and song-writer.Dibdin was the son of Charles Dibdin, a song-writer and theatre manager, and of Mrs Davenet, an actress whose real name was Harriet Pitt. He was apprenticed to his maternal uncle, a London upholsterer, and later to William Rawlins,...
, dramatist and songwriter (d. 1841) - September 17 – Johann August ApelJohann August ApelJohann August Apel was a German writer and jurist.Apel was born in Leipzig. His tale Die Jägerbraut formed the basis for the libretto of Der Freischütz.- Works :* Die Aitolier...
, librettist (d. 1816) - October 1 – Pierre BaillotPierre BaillotPierre Marie François de Sales Baillot was a French violinist and composer.Baillot was born in Passy and studied the violin under Giovanni Battista Viotti...
, violinist and composer (d. 1842) - October 29 – Anna Leonore KönigAnna Leonore KönigAnna Leonore König, née Falck , was a Swedish singer and musician . She was solo singer in the "Musikaliska inrättningen" in Norrköping in 1797–1801...
, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of MusicRoyal Swedish Academy of MusicThe Royal Swedish Academy of Music or Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien, founded in 1771 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden...
(d. 1854) - November 17 – Jonathan HuntingtonJonathan HuntingtonJonathan Huntington was born in Windham, Connecticut February 9, 1771 and died in St. Louis, Missouri July 29, 1838. He was a tenor and one of the first American composers.-References:...
, composer (d. 1838) - date unknown – Marie Antoinette PetersénMarie Antoinette PetersénMarie Antoinette Petersén, , was a Swedish artist and singer. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.Marie Antoinette Petersén, who was married to a wealthy merchant, was known as a non professional musician and singer. In 1801, she was elected as a member in to the Swedish Royal...
, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (d. 1855)
Deaths
- March 30 – Anton Joseph HampelAnton Joseph HampelAnton Joseph Hampel was a horn player who is generally credited with having developed, somewhere between 1750 and 1760, the technique of hand-stopping which allows natural horns to play fully chromatically...
, horn player (b. 1710) - May 21 – Christopher SmartChristopher SmartChristopher Smart , also known as "Kit Smart", "Kitty Smart", and "Jack Smart", was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout...
, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1722) - May 29 – Johann Adolph HassJohann Adolph HassJohann Adolph Rudolph Hass was a German clavichord and harpsichord maker, the son of Hieronymus Albrecht Hass, who was also a clavier maker...
, clavichord and harpsichord maker (b. 1713) - October 14 – Frantisek BrixiFrantišek BrixiFrantišek Xaver Brixi was a Czech classical composer of the 18th century. His first name is sometimes given, by reference works, in its Germanic form: Franz.-Biography:...
, composer (b. 1732) - October 27 – Johann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb GraunJohann Gottlieb Graun was a German Baroque/Classical era composer and violinist.Graun was born in Wahrenbrück. His brother Carl Heinrich was also a composer and singer. He studied with J.G. Pisendel in Dresden, and Giuseppe Tartini in Padua. Appointed Konzertmeister in Merseburg in 1726, he taught...
, composer (b. 1703)