1763 in music
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Events
- July 9 - Mozart family grand tourMozart family grand tourThe Mozart family grand tour was a journey through western Europe, undertaken by Leopold Mozart, his wife Anna Maria, and their musically gifted children Maria Anna and Wolfgang Amadeus from 1763 to 1766. At the start of the tour the children were aged eleven and seven respectively...
: The family 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...
sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris - The first public concert with a glass harmonicaGlass harmonicaThe glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica , is a type of musical instrument that uses a series of glass bowls or goblets graduated in size to produce musical tones by means of friction The glass harmonica, also known as the glass...
is performed by Marianne DaviesMarianne DaviesMarianne Davies was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies.In 1762 she became the first person to publicly perform on the glass harmonica , an instrument consisting of variously sized and tuned glass bowls that rotate on a common shaft, played by touching the... - James HookJames Hook (composer)James Hook was an English composer and organist.-Life and musical career:He was born in Norwich, the son of James Hook, a razor-grinder and cutler. He displayed a remarkable musical talent at an early age, playing the harpsichord by the age of four and performing concertos in public at age six...
becomes musical director of Marylebone GardensMarylebone GardensMarylebone or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden sited in the grounds of the old manor house of Marylebone and frequented from the mid-17th century, when Marylebone was a village separated from London by fields and market gardens, to the third quarter of the 18th century...
in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
Opera
- Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
- 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...
– Acide - Vincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo ManfrediniVincenzo Manfredini was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and a music theorist.-Biography:Manfredini was born in Pistoia, near Florence....
– Carlo Magno
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphonies nos. 12 and 13Symphony No. 13 (Haydn)Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 13 in D major was written in 1763 for the orchestra of Haydn's patron, Prince Nikolaus Esterházy, in Eisenstadt.The work can be precisely dated thanks to a dated score in Haydn's own hand in the National Library of Budapest. Two other Haydn symphonies are known to have...
- Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
– Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
Births
- February 20 – Adalbert GyrowetzAdalbert GyrowetzVojtěch Matyáš Jírovec was a Bohemian composer.- Biography :...
, composer (died 1850) - March 6 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
- March 18 – Marie Christine BjörnMarie Christine BjörnMarie Christine Björn , was a Danish ballerina and actor. She was one of the greatest stars within Danish ballet....
, ballerina - April 2 – Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
- April 7 – Domenico DragonettiDomenico DragonettiDomenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti was an Italian double bass virtuoso and composer. He stayed for thirty years in his hometown of Venice, Italy and worked at the Opera Buffa, at the Chapel of San Marco and at the Grand Opera in Vicenza...
, composer (died 1846) - May 4 – Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
- May 15 – Franz DanziFranz DanziFranz Ignaz Danzi was a German cellist, composer and conductor, the son of the noted Italian cellist Innocenz Danzi. Born in Schwetzingen, Franz Danzi worked in Mannheim, Munich, Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where he died....
, composer (died 1826) - June 1 – Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
- June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
- June 24 – Étienne MéhulÉtienne MéhulEtienne Nicolas Méhul was a French composer, "the most important opera composer in France during the Revolution." He was also the first composer to be called a "Romantic".-Life:...
, composer (died 1817) - October 12 – John Ross (composer), composer
- November 28 – Matthaus Fischer, composer
- December 23 – John Davy (composer), composer
Deaths
- February 7 – Christoph SchaffrathChristoph SchaffrathChristoph Schaffrath is best known as a musician and composer of classical western music of the late Baroque to Classical transition era.-Career:...
, composer (born 17091709 in music-Events:*Johann Georg Pisendel leaves his post in the court orchestra of Ansbach to travel to Leipzig, meeting Johann Sebastian Bach en route.*Antonio Stradivari makes the Viotti Stradivarius.- Classical music :...
) - February 12 (buried) – Gottfried Heinrich BachGottfried Heinrich BachGottfried Heinrich Bach was the firstborn son of Johann Sebastian Bach by his second wife Anna Magdalena Wilcke....
, keyboardist son 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 17241724 in music-Events:*Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Sanctus for his later Mass in B minor.*John Frederick Lampe arrives in Britain.*Joseph Bodin de Boismortier moves to Paris from Perpignan....
) - June 1 – Johann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar VoglerJohann Caspar Vogler was a German organist and composer taught by Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:He was born in Hausen, near Arnstadt; from 1706 he studied with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was at that time organist there, and was also taught, in Rudolstadt, by P. H. Erlebach and Nicolaus Vetter...
, composer - July 17 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
- August 14 – Giovanni Battista SomisGiovanni Battista SomisGiovanni Battista Somis was an Italian violinist and composer of the Baroque music era.He studied under Arcangelo Corelli between 1703 and 1706 or 1707...
, composer - September 14 – Johann Philipp Sack, composer
- December 2 – Carl August ThieloCarl August ThieloCarl August Thielo was a Danish composer.-External links:...
, composer - unknown date – Johann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb JanitschJohann Gottlieb Janitsch was a German Baroque composer.Janitsch was born in Schweidnitz, Silesia. He graduated from the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He held various positions at the court of the Kingdom of Prussia, eventually becoming the personal musician of Frederick the Great. Janitsch...
, composer (born 17081708 in music-Events:*Alessandro Scarlatti returns to Naples from Venice.*Johann Sebastian Bach becomes organist and concert-master at the Weimar court.*Arcangelo Corelli returns to Rome and joins the household of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni.-Published popular music:...
) - probable
- Nicola LogroscinoNicola LogroscinoNicola Bonifacio Logroscino was an Italian composer who is best known for his operas.-Biography:He was born at Bitonto and was a pupil of Francesco Durante...
, composer (born 16981698 in music-Events:*Henry Purcell's widow publishes the first volume of Orpheus Britannicus.*Antonio Stradivari makes the "Cabriac" violin.-Classical music:...
) - Giuseppe Paganelli, composer
- Nicola Logroscino