1777 in music
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Events
- 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...
resigns his position in the Salzburg court. - 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...
becomes musical director of the Haymarket Theatre in London. - Über die Theorie der Musik by Johann Nikolaus ForkelJohann Nikolaus ForkelJohann Nikolaus Forkel , was a German musician, musicologist and music theorist.-Biography:...
is published in GöttingenGöttingenGöttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...
. - Thomas Arne and his wife are reconciled after a separation of over twenty years.
Opera
- Agostino AccorimboniAgostino AccorimboniAgostino Accorimboni , last name also given as Accoramboni, Accorimbeni or Accorrimboni, was an Italian composer known mostly for his operas...
– Nitteti - Luigi de Baillou – Il casino di campagna
- 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...
– ArmideArmideArmide is the French and English form of the name Armida, a witch in Torquato Tasso's epic poem "Jerusalem Delivered" . The sequence of the poem recounting her love affair with the Christian knight Renaud inspired many operas, which are listed under the names of their respective composers in the... - 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...
– Il mondo della lunaIl mondo della lunaIl mondo della luna , Hob. 28/7, is an opera buffa by Joseph Haydn with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni, first performed at Eszterháza, Hungary on 3 August 1777. Goldoni's libretto had previously been set by four other composers, first by the composer Baldassare Galuppi and performed in Venice in the...
Classical music
- Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
– Missa S Hieronymi - Gottfried August HomiliusGottfried August HomiliusGottfried August Homilius was a German composer, cantor, and organist. He was the main representative of the empfindsamer style....
– Christmas Oratorio - Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9Piano Concerto No. 9 (Mozart)The Piano Concerto No. 9 "Jeunehomme" in E flat major, K. 271, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was written in Salzburg in 1777, when Mozart was 21 years old....
("Jeunehomme") - Josef MyslivečekJosef MyslivecekJosef Mysliveček was a Czech composer who contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music...
– Isacco figura del redentore (oratorio) - 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 :...
– Violin Concerto in B flat
Births
- January 1 – Micah HawkinsMicah HawkinsMicah Hawkins was an American poet, playwright, and composer, largely of music for theater, who also operated a New York City tavern and grocery store....
, composer - January 3 – Louis PoinsotLouis PoinsotLouis Poinsot was a French mathematician and physicist. Poinsot was the inventor of geometrical mechanics, showing how a system of forces acting on a rigid body could be resolved into a single force and a couple.-Life:...
, instrument maker - January 8 – Filippo Traetta, musicologist
- April 18 – Ignac Ruzitska, composer
- May 28 – Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
- May 4 – Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
- June 2 – Christian Traugott Tag, composer
- September 30 – Ramon Felix Cuellar y Altarriba, composer
- November 5 – Filippo TaglioniFilippo TaglioniFilippo Taglioni was an Italian dancer and choreographer and personal teacher to his own daughter, the famous Romantic ballerina Marie Taglioni. He is the son of Carlo and father of both Marie and Paul...
, dancer and choreographer - December 16 – János FuszJános FuszJános Fusz , aged 41, was a Hungarian composer. Although he composed in many different genres, he was highly popular during his lifetime for his many songs, earning recognition from Beethoven among others.-External links:...
, composer - William RussellWilliam Russell (organist)- External links :*...
, organist and composer - Hedda HjortsbergHedda HjortsbergHedda Hjortsberg was a Swedish ballerina who starred for the Royal Swedish Ballet. She was the sister of the Swedish actor Lars Hjortsberg.- Biography :...
, ballerina
Deaths
- January 1 – Emanuele Barbella, composer
- March 1 – Georg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph WagenseilGeorg Christoph Wagenseil was an Austrian composer.He was born in Vienna, and became a favorite pupil of the Vienna court'sKapellmeister, Johann Joseph Fux. Wagenseil himself composed for the...
- July 27 – William HayesWilliam Hayes (organist)William Hayes was an English composer, organist, singer and conductor.-Life:...
, composer (b. 1706) - August 17 – Giuseppe ScarlattiGiuseppe ScarlattiGiuseppe Scarlatti was a composer of opere serie and opere buffe. He worked in Rome from 1739 to 1741, and from 1752 to 1754 in Florence, Pisa, Lucca and Turin. From 1752 to 1754, and again from 1756 to 1759, he worked in Venice and for short periods in Milan and Barcelona...
, composer - August 23 – Giuseppe Sellitto, composer
- September 1 – Johann Ernst Bach, composer
- November – Marco ColtelliniMarco ColtelliniMarco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer.He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and...
, opera librettist (b. 1719) - November 30 – Jean-Marie Leclair the youngerJean-Marie Leclair the youngerJean-Marie Leclair le cadet, also known as Jean-Marie Leclair, the Younger was a French composer, and younger brother of the better-known Jean-Marie Leclair l'aîné ....
, composer (b. 1703) - December 21 – Anton Cajetan AdlgasserAnton Cajetan AdlgasserAnton Cajetan Adlgasser was a German organist and composer at Salzburg Cathedral and at court, and composed a good deal of liturgical music as well as oratorios and orchestral and keyboard works.Born in Inzell, Bavaria, he moved to Salzburg, where he studied under Johann Ernst Eberlin...
, organist (b. 1729)