Music year 1758
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
Opera
- Carnival: The opera libretto Issipile by Pietro Metastasio will be premiered in the setting by Florian Leopold Gassmann at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice. Another setting by Gioacchino Cocchi has its world premiere on May 14th at the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London.
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - L'île de Merlin
Instrumental music
- Joseph Haydn completed one of his first symphonies , which was later referred to as the 37th symphony .
- Michael Haydn - Symphony No. 1 in C major, MH 23 (Perger 35)
Others
- Publication of the first English-language guitar learning book
- William Boyce is appointed organist at the Chapel Royal .
- Giovanni Battista Locatelli presents his opera compositions in Russia. The brothers Giuseppe and Vincenzo Manfredini belong to his traveling party .
- 15-year-old Luigi Boccherini is coming to Vienna for the first time with his father and sister Maria Ester , where the two men will be in the orchestra of the Burgtheater and at the Kärntnertortheater from March to September (partly under the direction of Christoph Willibald Gluck ) play along while Maria Ester finds a long-term job as a prima ballerina .
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 7 : Benedikt Schak , Bohemian tenor and composer († 1826 )
- August 25 : Franz Teyber , Austrian composer, organist and Kapellmeister († 1810 )
- September 25 : Josepha Auernhammer , Austrian pianist and composer († 1820 )
- September 25 : Maria Anna Thekla Mozart , cousin of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Das Bäsle († 1841 )
- October 7 : Paul Wineberger , German cellist and composer († 1821 )
- November 20 : Georg Friedrich Fickert , German hymn poet and pastor († 1815 )
- November 23 : Samuel Gottlob Auberlen , Württemberg musician and song composer († 1829 )
- December 3 : Louis Adam , French composer and piano virtuoso († 1848 )
- December 3 : Joseph Gelinek , Bohemian-Austrian composer and pianist († 1825 )
- December 11 : Carl Friedrich Zelter , German musician, composer, conductor and music teacher († 1832 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Henriette Dauer-von Etzdorf , German actress and opera singer († 1843 )
- Juliane Caroline Koch , German opera singer and pianist († 1783 )
Died
- April 2 (buried): Johann Balthasar König , German composer and Protestant church musician (* 1691 )
- April 15 (buried): Heinrich Valentin Beck , German cantor and composer (* 1698 )
- April 30th : François d'Agincour , French harpsichordist, organist and composer (* 1684 )
- August 12 : Georg Renkewitz , German organist and organ builder (* 1687 )
- August 27 : Maria Barbara de Bragança , Queen of Spain, harpsichord virtuoso and patron of Farinelli and the Italian opera (* 1711 )
- October 4th : Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello , Italian composer and violinist (* around 1690 )
- October 15 : Alessandro Toeschi , Italian violinist, concertmaster and composer (* around 1700 )
- October 26 : Johann Paul Schorn , Salzburg violin maker, composer and violinist (* 1682 )
- November 20 : Johan Helmich Roman , Swedish composer (* 1694 )
- November 24th : Johann Tobias Dressel , Saxon organ builder (* 1687 )
- November 27 : Senesino , actually Francesco Bernardi, Italian opera singer, castrato (* 1686 )
- December 2 : Joseph Meck , German conductor, composer and violin virtuoso of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt (* around 1690 )
- December 5 : Johann Friedrich Fasch , German composer (* 1688 )
- December 20 : Francesco Maria Cattaneo , Italian violinist and composer as well as concertmaster of the Dresden court orchestra (* around 1697 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Johann Ignaz Beyer , Austrian composer, organist and Kapellmeister (* around 1700 )
- Giampaolo De Dominici , Neapolitan actor, musician, singer and composer (* 1680 )
- Johann Matthias Hagelstein , Lüneburg organ builder (* 1706 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1758 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1758 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, ISBN 88-7246-679-2 , pp. 30-31