1770 in music
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Events
- The "Concert des Amateurs" is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.
- BalletBalletBallet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...
is performed the first time in OsloOsloOslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...
by Madame StuartMadame StuartC.D. Stuart, known under her stage name Madame Stuart , was a Ballet dancer, acrobat, tightrope-walker, singer, musician, actress, dance teacher, composer and beer brewer. She played an important part in Norwegian cultural history as a pioneer in several fields...
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Classical music
- Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
– Symphony in G major - 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...
– Symphony no 11 - Pietro NardiniPietro NardiniPietro Nardini was an Italian composer and violinist.-Life:He was born in Fibiana and studied music at Livorno, later becoming a pupil of Giuseppe Tartini. Having been a student of Giuseppe Tartini, he moved to Germany where he joined the court chapel in Stuttgart where he became conductor in 1762...
– Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo
Opera
- Pasquale AnfossiPasquale AnfossiBonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi was an Italian opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccolò Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome....
– Armida - Gennaro AstaritaGennaro AstaritaGennaro Astarita was an Italian composer, mainly of operas. The place of his birth is unknown, although he was active in Naples for many years. He became the maestro di cappella there in 1770. He is also considered to have played an important role in the development of opera in Russia...
– Il re alla caccia - 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...
– Paride ed ElenaParide ed ElenaParide ed Elena is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, the third and final of his Italian reformist works, following Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste. Like its predecessors, its libretto was written by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. The opera tells the story of the events between the Judgment of Paris and... - Johann Adolf Hasse – Piramo e Tisbe
- 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...
– Le PescatriciLe pescatriciLe pescatrici Hob. 28/4, is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn set to a libretto by Carlo Goldoni... - Antonio SacchiniAntonio SacchiniAntonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini was an Italian opera composer.Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where...
– Calliroe
Published popular music
- William BillingsWilliam BillingsWilliam Billings was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music...
– The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song ChesterChester (song)Among the patriotic anthems sung during the American Revolutionary War, only Yankee Doodle was more popular than William Billings's Chester. Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing...
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Births
- February 18 – Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
- February 20 – Ferdinando CarulliFerdinando CarulliFerdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli was an Italian composer for classical guitar and the author of the first complete classical guitar method, which continues to be used today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including concertos and chamber works...
, composer - February 22 – Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
- February 26 – Antoine Reicha, composer
- May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
- June 4 – James HewittJames HewittJames Hewitt is a former British household cavalry officer in the British Army. He had an affair with Diana, Princess of Wales for five years, receiving extensive media coverage after revealing details of the affair.-Early life:...
, composer - November 8 – Friedrich WittFriedrich WittFriedrich Jeremias Witt was a German composer and cellist. He is perhaps best known as the likely author of a Symphony in C major known as the Jena Symphony, once attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven.-Biography:...
, composer - November 29 – Peter HänselPeter HänselPeter Hänsel was a German-Austrian violinist and classical composer of almost exclusively chamber music...
, composer - December 13 – John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
- December 15 or December 16 – Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, composer - December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
Deaths
- February 26
- Giuseppe TartiniGiuseppe TartiniGiuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...
, violinist and composer - Francois Hanot, composer
- Giuseppe Tartini
- April 19 – Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
- May 4 – Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
- May 9 – Charles AvisonCharles AvisonCharles Avison – 10 May 1770) was an English composer during the Baroque and Classical periods. He was a church organist at St John The Baptist Church in Newcastle and at St. Nicholas's Church...
, composer - July 26 – Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
- October 1 – Louis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel GuillemainLouis-Gabriel Guillemain was a French composer and violinist.-Biography:Probably born in Paris, Guillemain was raised by the Count de Rochechouart, and started studying violin at an early age. He was then sent to Italy to complete his training as violinist, and studied under Giovanni Battista...
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