1758 in music
Encyclopedia
Events
- Publication of the first English-language manual on the guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
. - William Boyce becomes organist of the Chapel Royal.
- Giovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista LocatelliGiovanni Battista Locatelli was an Italian opera director, impresario and owner of a private opera company.In 1757 he and his troupe were invited to St. Petersburg. They put on an opera every week for the court, and two to three times a week they were allowed to give open public performances. The...
takes his opera productions to Russia. Among the members of the troupe are the brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo Manfredini was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and a music theorist.-Biography:Manfredini was born in Pistoia, near Florence....
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Opera
- Florian Leopold GassmannFlorian Leopold GassmannFlorian Leopold Gassmann was a German-speaking Bohemian opera composer of the transitional period between the baroque and classical eras. He was one of the principal composers of dramma giocoso immediately before Mozart....
– Issipile - Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
– L'île de Merlin
Births
- February 7 – Benedikt SchackBenedikt SchackBenedikt Schack was a composer and tenor of the Classical era, a close friend of Mozart and the first performer of the role of Tamino in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.- Early life :...
, operatic tenor and composer (d. 1826) - August 25 – Franz TeyberFranz TeyberFranz Teyber was an Austrian Kapellmeister, organist and composer of orchestral and chamber music. Studying at Wagenseil, from 1786 he was director of the Schikaneder theatre company and from 1801 a composer and musical director of the Theater an der Wien...
, composer - September 25 – Maria Anna Thekla MozartMaria Anna Thekla MozartMaria Anna Thekla Mozart , called Marianne, known as Bäsle , was the cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, cousin and correspondent of 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...
(d. 1841) - September 25 – Josepha Barbara AuernhammerJosepha Barbara AuernhammerJosepha Barbara Auernhammer was an Austrian pianist and composer.She was born in Vienna, the eleventh child of Johann Michael Auernhammer and Elisabeth Timmer....
, pianist and composer - October 7 – Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
- December 11 – Carl Friedrich ZelterCarl Friedrich ZelterCarl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music.Zelter became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems...
, composer (died 1832) - December 31 – Sophie HagmanSophie HagmanSophie Hagman née Anna Stina Hagman or Anna Sophia Hagman, , was a Swedish ballet dancer...
, ballerina (d. 1826) - Date unknown – Glafira AlymovaGlafira AlymovaGlafira Ivanovna Alymova was a Russian lady in waiting and harpist.Glafira Alymova was the daughter of Colonel Ivan Akinfievich Alymov. She studied music at the Smolny Institute and on her graduation was decorated as one of its five best students , and was made lady in waiting to the Empress...
, harpsichordist (d. 1826)
Deaths
- January 28 – Johann Paul SchiffelholzJohann Paul SchiffelholzJohann Paul Schiffelholz , was a German Baroque composer and an important composer for the variety of baroque lute called a mandora , as well as writing the usual trio sonatas, etc., for the violin family instruments...
, composer for the mandora (born 16851685 in music- Events :*The father of Georg Philipp Telemann dies, leaving his widow to bring up the children.*Antonio Stradivari makes the ex Arma Senkrah violin.*John Blow is recorded among the private musicians of King James II of England....
) - March 22 – Richard LeveridgeRichard LeveridgeRichard Leveridge was an English bass singer of the London stage and a composer of baroque music, including many popular songs....
, opera singer (born 1670) - April 24 – Florian Wrastill, composer
- April 30 – François d'AgincourtFrançois d'AgincourtFrançois d'Agincourt was a French harpsichordist, organist, and composer. He spent most of his life in Rouen, his native city, where he worked as organist of the Rouen Cathedral and of three smaller churches. Highly regarded during his lifetime, d'Agincourt was one of the organists of the royal...
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1684) - June – John TraversJohn Travers (Composer)John Travers was an English composer who held the office of Organist to the Chapel Royal from 1737 to 1758. Before filling several parochial posts in London he had been a choir boy at St. George's Chapel, Windsor and a pupil of Johann Christoph Pepusch...
, organist and composer (born 1703) - October 4 – Giuseppe Antonio BrescianelloGiuseppe Antonio BrescianelloGiuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.His name is mentioned the first time in a document from 1715 in which the Elector of Bavaria appointed him violinist in his court orchestra in Munich...
, Italian composer and violinist (born c. 1690) - November 20 – Johan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich RomanJohan Helmich Roman was a Swedish Baroque composer. He has been called "the father of Swedish music" or "the Swedish Handel."-Life:...
, composer (born 1694) - November 27 – SenesinoSenesinoSenesino was a celebrated Italian contralto castrato, particularly remembered today for his long collaboration with the composer George Frideric Handel.-Early life and career:...
, castrato singer (born 16861686 in music-Classical music:*Johann Kaspar Kerll – Modulatio organica*Henry Purcell – Ye Tuneful Muses*Vasily Titov – Psaltïr' rifmovannaya , vocal polyphonic setting of the Russian psalter...
) - December 5 – Johann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich FaschJohann Friedrich Fasch was a German violinist and composer.Fasch was born in Buttelstedt, was a choirboy in Weissenfels and studied under Johann Kuhnau at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig and later founded a Collegium Musicum in that city...
, composer (born 1688) - probable – Sanctus SeraphinSanctus SeraphinSanctus Seraphin , also known as Santo Serafin, Serafino, was a financially successful luthier , working first in Udine Italy, and then in his later life in Venice...
, violin-maker (born 1699)