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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...
marries, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives. - John NewtonJohn NewtonJohn Henry Newton was a British sailor and Anglican clergyman. Starting his career on the sea at a young age, he became involved with the slave trade for a few years. After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of...
leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns. - Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric HandelGeorge Frideric Handel was a German-British Baroque composer, famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos. Handel was born in 1685, in a family indifferent to music...
, by John MainwaringJohn MainwaringJohn Mainwaring was an English theologian and the first biographer of the composer Georg Friedrich Händel in any language. He was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and became rector of the parish of Church Stretton, Shropshire, and, later professor of Divinity at Cambridge...
, is published anonymously. - John AlcockJohn Alcock (organist)John Alcock, was an English organist and composer. He wrote instrumental music, glees and much church music.-Career:...
is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield CathedralLichfield CathedralLichfield Cathedral is situated in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England. It is the only medieval English cathedral with three spires. The Diocese of Lichfield covers all of Staffordshire, much of Shropshire and part of the Black Country and West Midlands...
. - William Boyce's Eight Symphonies are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
- Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
becomes organist of Milan Cathedral. - Johann Christoph Friedrich BachJohann Christoph Friedrich BachJohann Christoph Friedrich Bach , the ninth son of Johann Sebastian Bach, sometimes referred to as the "Bückeburg Bach"...
marries the singer Lucia Elisabeth Munchhusen. - Johann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist VanhalJohann Baptist Vanhal also spelled Wanhal, Waṅhall or Wanhall was an important classical music composer born in Nechanice, Bohemia to a Czech family.- Biography :...
is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von DittersdorfCarl Ditters von Dittersdorf----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...
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Opera
- Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
- Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
– Artaserse - 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...
– Alcide al Bivio - Vincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo Manfredini was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and a music theorist.-Biography:Manfredini was born in Pistoia, near Florence....
– Semiramide - Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
– Les Surprises de l'amour
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – String Quartet in D
- William Boyce – Eight Symphonies
- François Joseph GossecFrançois Joseph GossecFrançois-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.-Life and work:...
– Grande Messe des Morts - Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
– Concerto for Violin in B flat major
Births
- January 10 – Johan Rudolf ZumsteegJohan Rudolf ZumsteegJohann Rudolf Zumsteeg was a German composer and conductor....
, composer (died 1802) - January 15 – Jean François Lesueur, composer (died 1837)
- January 19 – Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
- January 30 – Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
- March 27 – Ishmail SpicerIshmail SpicerIshmael Spicer was a publisher in Baltimore, a teacher, and one of the first American composers....
, composer - April 12 – Juan Manuel OlivaresJuan Manuel OlivaresJuan Manuel Hermenegildo de la Luz Olivares was a Venezuelan composer from the Colonial era.Olivares was born in Caracas. As a child, he studied under Don Ambrosio Carreño...
, composer - May 10 – Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of La MarseillaiseLa Marseillaise"La Marseillaise" is the national anthem of France. The song, originally titled "Chant de guerre pour l'Armée du Rhin" was written and composed by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795...
(died 1836) - May 29 – Charlotte SlottsbergCharlotte SlottsbergCharlotte Slottsberg , was a Swedish ballerina-dancer, one of the first native dancers in the Royal Swedish Ballet at the Royal Swedish Opera and one of the most successful ones...
, ballerina - June 14 – Candido Jose Ruano, composer
- September 21 – Gaetano Valeri, composer
- September 14 – Luigi CherubiniLuigi CherubiniLuigi Cherubini was an Italian composer who spent most of his working life in France. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries....
, composer (died 1842) - October 1 – William Thomas BeckfordWilliam Thomas BeckfordWilliam Thomas Beckford , usually known as William Beckford, was an English novelist, a profligate and consummately knowledgeable art collector and patron of works of decorative art, a critic, travel writer and sometime politician, reputed to be the richest commoner in England...
, composer and author (died 1844) - November 9 – Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
- December 2 – Joseph GraetzJoseph GraetzJoseph Graetz was a German composer, organist, and music educator. In 1790 two of his stage works premiered: the operetta Das Gespenst mit der Trommel and the opera Adelheid von Veltheim...
, composer- Christina Charlotta CederströmChristina Charlotta CederströmChristina Charlotta Cederström was a Swedish Dilettante artist, salon hostess, and baroness. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts and the French Académie des Beaux-Arts....
- Christina Charlotta Cederström
Deaths
- January 18 – Claudio CascioliniClaudio CascioliniClaudio Casciolini was an Italian composer. His compositions include a three-part Missa pro defunctis, eight-part Zacchee festinans descende and a Missa brevissima. From April 1726 until his death he sang bass at the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso where he may also have been maestro di...
, composer - November 12 -Andjelko Topic, genius in music
- February 14 – Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
- February 22 – Anna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena Bach was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...
, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian BachJohann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
(born 1701) - March 10 – Christoph GraupnerChristoph GraupnerChristoph Graupner was a German harpsichordist and composer of high Baroque music who lived and worked at the same time as Johann Sebastian Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel.-Graupner's life:Born in Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in Saxony, Graupner received his first musical...
, composer (born 1683) - March 14 – Anton FilsAnton FilsAnton Fils was a German classical composer....
, composer (born 1733) - April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb BaronErnst Gottlieb Baron or Ernst Theofil Baron, was a German lutenist, composer and writer on music.Baron was born in Breslau into the family Michael Baron, of a maker of gold lace who expected his son to follow in his footsteps. Baron showed an inclination to music from an early age, and later made...
, lutenist and composer (born 1696) - May – Girolamo AbosGirolamo AbosGirolamo Abos, last name also given Avos or d'Avossa and baptized Geronimo Abos , was a Maltese-Italian composer of both operas and church music....
, composer (born 1715) - date unknown
- Pierre FévrierPierre FévrierPierre Février was a French baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.Février lived in Paris and served as titular organist of two churches in the Saint-Honoré street: the Jacobins' church and the Saint Roch. Claude-Bénigne Balbastre, who moved to Paris in 1750, was among his pupils and...
, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696) - Henry NeedlerHenry NeedlerHenry Needler was a British musician and prolific music transcriber. He joined the Academy of Ancient Music in 1728 , and transcribed a number of works of what was then termed "ancient" music from the 16th and 17th centuries that was no longer contemporary...
, music transcriber (born 1685)
- Pierre Février