1774 in music

1774 in music

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.

Opera

*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" by Carl Stamitz

Births

*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, composer

Deaths

*January 20 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
*January 30 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma and Jean-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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