1769 in music
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- 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...
goes to MadridMadridMadrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis. - Wenzel PichlWenzel PichlWenzel Pichl was a classical Czech composer of the 18th Century. He was also a violinist, music director and writer....
becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in PraguePraguePrague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million... - 14-year-old 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...
hears AllegriGregorio AllegriGregorio Allegri was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri; he was also a priest and a singer. He lived mainly in Rome, where he would later die.-Life:...
's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note. - Charles BurneyCharles BurneyCharles Burney FRS was an English music historian and father of authors Frances Burney and Sarah Burney.-Life and career:...
receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of OxfordUniversity of OxfordThe University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
. - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in VeniceVeniceVenice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
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Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
- François Joseph GossecFrançois Joseph GossecFrançois-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.-Life and work:...
– Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14 - 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...
– Te Deum in C - 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 :...
– Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3
Births
- January 17 – Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
- March 7 – Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
- March 25 – Salvatore ViganòSalvatore ViganòSalvatore Viganò , was an Italian choreographer, dancer and composer.He was born in Naples. He studied composition with Luigi Boccherini and by the mid-1780s was composing original music. In 1788 he appeared as a dancer on the stage in Venice. He performed in the coronation festivities of...
, composer - April 11 – Johann Georg LicklJohann Georg LicklJohann Georg Lickl, also Ligkl, Hans-Georg Lickl, was an Austrian composer, organist, Kapellmeister in the main church of Pécs, and piano teacher.Lickl was born in Korneuburg, Lower Austria, and orphaned as a child...
, composer - April 12 – Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
- May 4 – Charles HagueCharles HagueCharles Hague , was a professor of music at Cambridge University.Haguewas born in 1769 at Tadcaster, Yorkshire, and was taught music and the violin by an elder brother. In 1779 he removed with his brother to Cambridge, where he studied the violin under Manini and thorough-bass and composition under...
, composer - June 14 – Dominique Della-Maria, composer
- June 1 – Józef ElsnerJózef ElsnerJózef Antoni Franciszek was a composer, music teacher and music theoretician, active mainly in Warsaw...
, Chopin's future teacher - July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de PersuisLouis-Luc Loiseau de PersuisLouis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis was a French violinist, conductor, choirmaster, teacher, composer, and theatre director....
, composer - July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich TitovAlexey Nikolayevich TitovAlexey Nikolayevich Titov , was a Russian composer and violinist.Titov was born and died in St. Petersburg. Alongside his musical career, Titov was a major general in the Russian cavalry. His music, most of which is for the stage , was primarily written for local St. Petersburg theater and dance...
, composer - August 14 – Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist
- August 16 – Jean Aime Vernier, composer
- August 18 – Alexandre Stievenard, composer
- August 30 – Bonifacio Asioli, composer
Deaths
- March 27 – Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
- September – Henri HemschHenri HemschHenri Hemsch, original name Johann Heinrich Hemsch , was a French harpsichord maker of German origin....
, harpsichord maker (b. 1700) - unknown date – James Oswald, composer