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1774 in music

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Events

  • Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.
  • Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.
  • Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.
  • Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments.
  • Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.

Opera

  • Pasquale Anfossi – Olimpiade
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck
    • Iphigenie en Aulide Wq.40
    • Orphée et Eurydice, Wq.41 (French revision of Wq. 30)
  • Josef Mysliveček – Artaserse, ED.10:B.b5
  • Giovanni Paisiello
    • Il duello comico, R.1.41
    • La frascatana, R.1.43
  • Antonio Salieri – La Calamita de’ cuori

Classical music

  • Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 11
  • Johann Christian Bach – Symphony in B-flat major, W.B 17
  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, F.9
  • Josse-François-Joseph Benaut – Mass in C major
  • Ernst Eichner – 2 Harpsichord Concertos, Op. 5
  • Joseph Haydn
    • Baryton Trio in D major, Hob.XI:34
    • Great Organ Mass
  • Niccolò Jommelli – Pietà Signore, H.Anh.42
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Concertone in C major, K.190/186E
    • March in D major, K.237/189c
    • Symphony No. 29 in A
    • Symphony No. 30
  • Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges
    • 2 Violin Concertos, Op. 3 (Paris: Bailleux)
    • 2 Violin Concertos, Op. 4 (Paris: Bailleux)
  • Carl Stamitz
    • Concerto for Viola No. 1 in D major
    • 6 Quartets, Op. 4
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Il Ciclope

Methods and theory writings

  • Martin Gerbert – De cantu et musica sacra
  • Johann Adam Hiller
    • Anweisung zum musikalisch-richtigen Gesange
    • Exempel-Buch der Anweisung zum Singen
  • Heinrich Laag – Anfangsgründe zum Clavierspielen und Generalbas
  • Georg Simon Löhlein – Anweisung zum Vionlinspielen
  • Giovanni Battista Mancini – Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato
  • Giovanni Battista Martini – Esemplare, o sia Saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto
  • Johann Friedrich Reichardt – Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden die Musik betreffend

Births

  • February 16 – Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830)
  • March 5 – Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
  • April 17 – Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, organist and composer
  • October 7 – Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
  • October 23 – René de Chazet, librettist and writer (died 1844)
  • November 14 – Gaspare Spontini, composer
  • November 18 – William Horsley, composer
  • December 20 – Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer

Deaths

  • January 20 – Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, 44
  • January 30
    • Jean-Pierre Guignon, French composer (born 1702)
    • Frantisek Tuma, composer, 69
  • July 1 (buried) – Wenceslaus Wodiczka, violinist and composer
  • July 7 – Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
  • August 25 – Niccolò Jommelli, composer, 59
  • December 2 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer, 54
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