- 1764 in music
Events
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Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
*Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil ofJohann Christian Bach .Popular music
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Opera
*"La rencontre imprévue" -
Christoph Willibald Gluck
*"Siroe re di Persia" -Pietro Guglielmi
*"Gli stravaganti" -Niccolò Piccinni
*"L'Isola della Fortuna" -Andrea Luchesi Classical music
*"Symphony no 22" ("Philosopher") by
Joseph Haydn
*"Trumpet Concerto" -Michael Haydn
*"Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe" byIgnacio de Jerusalem Births
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February 8 -Joseph Leopold Eybler , composer (died1846 )
*May 15 -Johann Nepomuk Kalcher , composer (died1827 )
*July 1 -Georg Christoph Grosheim , composer (died1841 )
*September 11 -Valentino Fioravanti , composer (died1837 )
*September 15 -Friedrich Heine (died1821 ) andPaolo Francesco Parenti , composers (died1822 )
*October 14 -Charles-Henri Plantade , composer (died1839 )
*November 30 -Franz Xaver Gerl , composer (died1827 )
*December 10 -Louis-Sebastien Lebrun , composer
*"unknown date" -Vincenzo Fabrizi , composerDeaths
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March 30 -Pietro Locatelli , violinist and composer (born1695 )
*April 17 -Johann Mattheson , German musicologist (born1681 )
*June 11 -Christoph Stoltzenberg , composer (born1690 )
*September 12 -Jean-Philippe Rameau , composer (born1683 )
*October 22 -Jean-Marie Leclair , composer (born1697 )
*November 30 -Dieudonne Raick , composer (born1703 )
*"unknown date" -Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel , organist and composer, son ofJohann Pachelbel (born c.1685 )
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