- 1774 in music
Events
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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.Opera
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Pasquale Anfossi - "La finta giardiniera"; "Olimpiade"
*Christoph Willibald Gluck - "Iphigenie en Aulide "Classical music
*"Great Organ Mass" by
Joseph Haydn
*"Concerto for Viola no 1 in D major" byCarl Stamitz Births
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January 24 -Karl Moser , composer
*February 16 -Pierre Rode , violinist, composer, (d.1830 )
*March 5 -Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , composer
*April 17 -Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek , organist and composer
*October 7 -Ferdinando Orlandi , composer
*November 14 -Gaspare Spontini , composer
*November 18 -William Horsley , composer
*December 20 -Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes , composerDeaths
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January 20 -Florian Leopold Gassmann , composer
*January 30 -Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma andJean-Pierre Guignon , composers
*July 7 -Giuseppi Maria Carretti , composer
*August 25 -Niccolò Jommelli , composer
*December 2 -Johann Friedrich Agricola , composer
*"date unknown" -František Tůma , organist and composer
*"date unknown" -Vodicka Vaclav
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