thumb | right | Il Parnaso confuso by Christoph Willibald Gluck (music) and Pietro Metastasio (libretto). Performed 1765 from the children of Maria Theresia: Maria Amalia (Apollo), Maria Elisabeth (Melpomene), Maria Josepha (Euterpe), Maria Karolina (Erato), Leopold (Harspichord)

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Events

  • The Bach-Abel concerts are founded.
  • The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ("Harmonien") is founded.
  • First flamenco school established in Spain.
  • James Hook – "I wish you all good night" (song)

Opera

  • Johann Adolph Hasse - "Romolo ed Ersilla"
  • Johann Friedrich Agricola – Achille in Sciro, premiered Sept. 16 in Berlin
  • Samuel Arnold
  • Daphne and Amintor
  • The Summer's Tale
  • Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
  • Andrea Bernasconi – Semiramide riconosciuta
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck –
  • Alexandre
  • Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33
  • Semiramis
  • Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
  • Antonio Sacchini
  • La contadina in corte
  • Creso
  • Tommaso Traetta – Semiramide

Classical music

  • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 12 Polonaises, F.12
  • Joseph Haydn
  • Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:6
  • Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33
  • Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35
  • Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36
  • Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37
  • String Trio in B-flat major, Hob.V:B1
  • Divertimento in G major, Hob.XIV:13
  • Divertimento in D major, Hob.XVI:4
  • Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:15 (authorship in question)
  • Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47 (authorship in question)
  • Symphony No. 28
  • Cello Concerto No. 1
  • Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • "God Is Our Refuge", K.20
  • "Conservati fedele", K.23
  • Giovanni Marco Rutini – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.6
  • Georg Philipp Telemann
  • Symphonie zur Serenate, TWV Anh.50:1
  • Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1

Publications

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Berlin), Wq.112
  • Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op.&nbsp;3 (London)
  • Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso (6 Trio Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin)
  • Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)
  • Francesco Guerini – Six Solos (cello sonatas), Op. 9 (London, approximately this year)

Methods and theory writings

  • Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello
  • Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique
  • Georg Simon Löhlein – Klavier-Schule
  • Giuseppe Paolucci – Arte pratica di contrappunto
  • Michael Johann Friedrich Weideburg – Der sich selbst informirende Clavierspieler

Births

  • February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
  • June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer (died 1807)
  • June 26 – Franz Xaver Kleinheinz, composer (died 1832)
  • September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer (died 1844)
  • October 7 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish composer (died 1833)
  • October 22 – Daniel Steibelt, pianist and composer (died 1823)
  • October 26 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (died 1815)
  • November 20 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (died 1814)
  • November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer (died 1838)
  • December 25 – Joseph Mazzinghi, British composer (died 1844)
  • Date unknown – Sofia Liljegren Finnish soprano (died 1795)

Deaths

  • January 12 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist (born 1696)
  • January 15 – Carlmann Kolb, composer (born 1703)
  • January 19 – Johan Agrell, composer (born 1701)
  • February 9 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, singer, composer and conductor (born 1730)
  • March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (born 1687)
  • December 30 – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (born c. 1691)
  • date unknown
  • John Hebden, bassoonist, cellist and composer (born 1712)
  • Edward Henry Purcell, organist and music publisher
  • probable – Louis-Antoine Dornel, harpsichordist, violinist and composer (born c.1685)