1767 in music
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Events
- February 22 - Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.[1]
- September 11 - 11-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ).[2] A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
- October 26 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives.
- Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
Popular music
- James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.
Opera
- Felice Alessandri – Ezio
- Michael Arne - Cymon
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
- Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 35
- Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C
- Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
Births
- April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
- May 4 – Tyagaraja - composer and singer (died 1848)
- September 17 - Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
- September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
- September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
- November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
- December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
- Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
- Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
- probable – Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)
Deaths
- January 3 - Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
- April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
- June 22 - Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
- June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
- July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
- August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
- September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)
References
- ↑ http://www.ub.gu.se/fasta/laban/erez/kvinnohistoriska/tidskrifter/idun/1891/pdf/1891_41.pdf
- ↑ Halliwell, Ruth (1998) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Page 120
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