1774 in music
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Events
- Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.
- Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.
- Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.
- Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments.
- Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.
Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi â Olimpiade
- Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Iphigenie en Aulide Wq.40
- Orphée et Eurydice, Wq.41 (French revision of Wq. 30)
- Josef MysliveÄek â Artaserse, ED.10:B.b5
- Giovanni Paisiello
- Il duello comico, R.1.41
- La frascatana, R.1.43
- Antonio Salieri â La Calamita deâ cuori
Classical music
- Carl Friedrich Abel â 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 11
- Johann Christian Bach â Symphony in B-flat major, W.B 17
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach â Keyboard Sonata in B-flat major, F.9
- Josse-François-Joseph Benaut â Mass in C major
- Ernst Eichner â 2 Harpsichord Concertos, Op. 5
- Joseph Haydn
- Baryton Trio in D major, Hob.XI:34
- Great Organ Mass
- Niccolò Jommelli â Pietà Signore, H.Anh.42
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Concertone in C major, K.190/186E
- March in D major, K.237/189c
- Symphony No. 29 in A
- Symphony No. 30
- Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges
- 2 Violin Concertos, Op. 3 (Paris: Bailleux)
- 2 Violin Concertos, Op. 4 (Paris: Bailleux)
- Carl Stamitz
- Concerto for Viola No. 1 in D major
- 6 Quartets, Op. 4
- Johann Adolph Hasse â Il Ciclope
Methods and theory writings
- Martin Gerbert â De cantu et musica sacra
- Johann Adam Hiller
- Anweisung zum musikalisch-richtigen Gesange
- Exempel-Buch der Anweisung zum Singen
- Heinrich Laag â Anfangsgründe zum Clavierspielen und Generalbas
- Georg Simon Löhlein â Anweisung zum Vionlinspielen
- Giovanni Battista Mancini â Pensieri e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato
- Giovanni Battista Martini â Esemplare, o sia Saggio fondamentale pratico di contrappunto
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt â Briefe eines aufmerksamen Reisenden die Musik betreffend
Births
- February 16 â Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830)
- March 5 â Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
- April 17 â Václav Jan KÅtitel Tomášek, organist and composer
- October 7 â Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
- October 23 â René de Chazet, librettist and writer (died 1844)
- November 14 â Gaspare Spontini, composer
- November 18 â William Horsley, composer
- December 20 â Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
Deaths
- January 20 â Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer, 44
- January 30
- Jean-Pierre Guignon, French composer (born 1702)
- Frantisek Tuma, composer, 69
- July 1 (buried) â Wenceslaus Wodiczka, violinist and composer
- July 7 â Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
- August 25 â Niccolò Jommelli, composer, 59
- December 2 â Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer, 54