1773 in music
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Events
- January 18 – Carl StenborgCarl StenborgCarl Stenborg was a Swedish opera singer, actor, composer and theatre director. He is considered the first great male opera singer in Sweden and one of the pioneers of the Royal Swedish Opera.- Biography :...
, Elisabeth OlinElisabeth OlinElisabeth Olin was a Swedish opera singer and a music composer. She is referred to as the first Swedish Opera prima donna. She was a court-singer . She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music...
and Hedvig WigertHedvig WigertHedvig Christina Wigert was a Swedish opera singer. She belonged to the famous pioneer group of performers of the Royal Swedish Opera....
star in Thetis and Phelée, the inaugural production of the Royal Swedish OperaRoyal Swedish OperaKungliga Operan is Sweden's national stage for opera and ballet.-Location and Environment:...
. - February – Joseph Leutgeb tours Italy with LeopoldLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
and 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...
. - 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...
goes to ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
in search of work. - 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...
vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.
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....
– Demofoonte - Domenico CimarosaDomenico CimarosaDomenico Cimarosa was an Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school...
– La finta parigina - 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...
– L'infedeltà delusaL'infedeltà delusaL'infedeltà delusa , Hob. 28/5, is an operatic burletta per musica by Joseph Haydn. The Italian libretto was by Marco Coltellini, perhaps reworked by Carl Friberth who also took part in the first performance.-Performance history:...
; Philemon und Baucis - Andrea LuchesiAndrea LuchesiAndrea Luca Luchesi was an Italian composer.- Biography :Andrea Luchesi was born at Motta di Livenza, near Treviso the eleventh child of Pietro Luchese and Caterina Gottardi. The rather wealthy family descended from groups of noble families who had moved from Lucca to Venice in the 14th century...
– L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo GoldoniCarlo GoldoniCarlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty...
) - Anton SchweitzerAnton SchweitzerAnton Schweitzer was a German composer of operas.He was a child prodigy who obtained the patronage of the duke of Hildburghausen, who sent him to study in Bayreuth in 1758, then Italy , and made him Kapellmeister enabling him to tour Europe...
– Alceste (libretto by Christoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin WielandChristoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer.- Biography :He was born at Oberholzheim , which then belonged to the Free Imperial City of Biberach an der Riss in the south-east of the modern-day state of Baden-Württemberg...
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Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Harp in C major
- Samuel ArnoldSamuel Arnold (composer)Samuel Arnold was an English composer and organist.Arnold was born in London , and began writing music for the theatre in about 1764. A few years later he became director of music at the Marylebone Gardens, for which much of his popular music was written...
– The Prodigal Son (oratorio) - 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. 25 in G minorSymphony No. 25 (Mozart)The Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB, was written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in October 1773, shortly after the success of his opera seria Lucio Silla. It was supposedly completed October 5, a mere two days after the completion of his Symphony No. 24, although this remains unsubstantiated... - Giovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista SammartiniGiovanni Battista Sammartini was an Italian composer, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach...
– Six String Quintets
Births
- January 4 – Johann Peter HeuschkelJohann Peter HeuschkelJohann Peter Heuschkel , was a German oboist, organist, music teacher and composer....
, composer - February 2 – Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
- March 4 – Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
- March 7 – Tommaso MarchesiTommaso MarchesiTommaso Marchesi was an Italian composer.Marchesi was born in Lisbon, but studied music at Bologna, where in 1808 he founded the Accademia dei Filarmonica....
, composer - April 8 – Josephina Grassini, soprano
- May 26 – Hans Georg NageliHans Georg NägeliHans Georg Nägeli was a composer and music publisher.Nägeli was born in Wetzikon, Switzerland. He studied under his father as a child, and then opened a private music shop and publishing firm in the 1790s...
, composer - June 3 – Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
- July 6 – Wenzel Thomas MatiegkaWenzel Thomas MatiegkaWenzel Thomas Matiegka was a Bohemian composer.Matiegka was born in the town of Choceň in a remote corner of the state of Bohemia, then part of the Habsburg Monarchy, under the Habsburg ruler Joseph II....
, composer - July 23 – Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
- August 25 – Franz Nikolaus NovotnyFranz Nikolaus NovotnyFranz Nikolaus Novotny was an Austrian organist and composer of Bohemian descent at the Esterházy court in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt....
, composer - September 24 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
- October 23 – Pietro GeneraliPietro GeneraliPietro Generali is a former basketball player from Italy, who won the silver medal with his national team at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-References:...
, composer - December 9 – Marianne EhrenströmMarianne EhrenströmMarianne Ehrenström, née Pollet , was a Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, memorialist, principal and lady-in-waiting...
, Musician and writer - December 24 – Joseph WölflJoseph WölflJoseph Wölfl was an Austrian pianist and composer.-Biography:Wölfl was born at Salzburg, where he studied music under Leopold Mozart and Michael Haydn....
, pianist and composer - exact date unknown – Edward BuntingEdward BuntingEdward Bunting was an Irish musician and folk music collector.-Life:Bunting was born in County Armagh, Ireland. At the age of seven he was sent to study music at Drogheda and at eleven he was apprenticed to William Ware, organist at St. Anne's church in Belfast and lived with the family of Henry...
, Irish folk song collector - Inga ÅbergInga ÅbergInga Åberg was a Swedish actress and opera singer, one of the most popular and well known actors of her time in Sweden...
, opera singer and actress
Deaths
- April 11 – Carlo GruaCarlo GruaCarlo Luigi Grua was an Italian composer who is best known for his position as Kapellmeister for the Electoral Court at the German city of Mannheim....
, composer (b. c. 1700) - April 12 – Elizabeth YoungElizabeth Young (contralto)Elizabeth Young was an English contralto and actress. She was part of a well-known English family of musicians that included several professional singers and organists during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries....
, operatic contralto and actress (b. c. 1730) - May 24 – Jan ZachJan ZachJan Zach was a Czech composer, violinist and organist. Although he was a gifted and versatile composer capable of writing both in Baroque and Classical idioms, his eccentric personality led to numerous conflicts and lack of steady employment since about 1756.-Life:Zach was born in Čelákovice,...
, violinist, organist and composer (b. 1699) - July 12 – Johann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim QuantzJohann Joachim Quantz was a German flutist, flute maker and composer.-Biography:Quantz was born in Oberscheden, near Göttingen, Germany, and died in Potsdam....
, flautist and composer (b. 1697) - date unknown
- Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)Francis Hutcheson was a Scottish songwriter.He was the author of a number of popular songs, including "As Cohn one evening", "Jolly Bacchus" and "Where Weeping Yews". The son of philosopher Francis Hutcheson, he published some of his father's work after the latter's death.-References:*Dictionary...
(b. c. 1722) - Joan Baptista PlaJoan Baptista PlaJoan Baptista Pla was a Spanish composer and oboist.Joan Baptista was born in Catalonia, Spain, into a Catalan family of musicians. In the years after 1751, he worked in many of the principal cities of Europe including Padua, Stuttgart, Brussels, Paris andLondon along with his brother, Josep Pla ,...
, oboist and composer (b. c. 1720) - Hester SantlowHester SantlowHester Santlow was a noted British dancer and actress, who has been termed "England's first ballerina." She was influential in many spheres of theatrical life.-Life:...
, "England's first ballerina" (b. c. 1690)
- Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)