Music year 1760
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
World premieres
- February 12 : The comédie-lyrique Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau is premiered at the Académie royale de musique in Paris (the librettist is not beyond doubt). It was Rameau's last opera to be performed while he was still alive.
- June 15 : The opera Il re pastore by Giuseppe Zonca based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere at the Hoftheater in Munich.
- August 27 : The opera Il re pastore by Niccolò Piccinni based on the same libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.
- October 10 : The opera Tetide by Christoph Willibald Gluck has its world premiere at the Vienna Hofburg, with Caterina Gabrielli in the title role. At the end of the year, another of Gluck's operas , L'ivrogne corrigé , and the pasticcio Le caprice amoureux ou Ninette à la cour will premier at the Vienna Burgtheater .
ballet
The French dancer and choreographer Jean Georges Noverre wrote the theoretical treatise Lettres sur la Danse et sur les Ballets ( Letters on the Art of Dance ), one of the most important works on ballet to this day . In the same year he was appointed to the Württemberg court in Stuttgart.
Others
- After the great success of the first part of 1756 , the German baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann composed a second part of his Donner-Ode , TWV 6: 3b .
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach publishes his “ Six Sonatas for the Clavier with changed reprises ” in Berlin with a dedication to Princess Amalie of Prussia .
- Johann Christian Bach converted to Catholicism and became organist at the Milan Cathedral.
- Luigi Boccherini and his father Francesco Leopoldo are in Vienna for the second time , where they have a job in the orchestra of the Kärntnertortheater from April 1760 to March 20, 1761 (Luigi's sister Maria Ester has been prima ballerina in Vienna since 1758 ). During this time he wrote the first chamber music works that Luigi later included in his catalog raisonné: the string trios op.1 and the important string quartets op.2.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 10 : Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg , German composer and Kapellmeister († 1802 )
- January 24th : Friederike Bethmann-Unzelmann , German actress and singer († 1815 )
- February 2 : Georg Christoffer Rackwitz , Swedish instrument maker († 1844 )
- February 12 : Jan Ladislav Dussek , Bohemian pianist and composer († 1812 )
- February 15 : Jean-François Lesueur , French church musician and composer († 1837 )
- April 4 : Juan Manuel Olivares , Venezuelan composer († 1797 )
- May 1st : Felipe Rodríguez , Spanish organist, composer and monk († 1815 )
- May 10 : Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle , French composer, poet and officer († 1836 )
- May 11 : Ádam Pálóczi Horváth , Hungarian writer, folk song collector and composer († 1820 )
- September 14 : Luigi Cherubini , Italian composer († 1842 )
- December 2 : Joseph Graetz , German organist and composer († 1826 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Charles Louis Maucourt , German music teacher, violinist, composer and conductor († around or before 1829 )
- Bernard Václav Štiasný , Czech cellist and composer († 1835 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 4th : Johann Jakob Späth , German organ builder (* 1672 )
- January 15 : Michael Engler the Younger , German organ builder (* 1688 )
- January 18 : Claudio Casciolini , Italian composer (* 1697 )
- January 19 : Giuseppe Belli , Italian soprano castrato (* before 1752)
- February 14 : François Collin de Blamont , French composer (* 1690 )
- February 27 : Anna Magdalena Bach , German soprano, wife of Johann Sebastian Bach (* 1701 )
- March 14th (buried): Anton Fils , German composer (* 1733 )
- April 12 : Ernst Gottlieb Baron , German composer and lutenist (* 1696 )
- April 24 : Michele Mascitti , Italian violinist and composer (* 1664 )
- May 10 : Christoph Graupner , German composer (* 1683 )
- May 21 : Anna Nitschmann , Moravian song poet, member of the Moravian Brethren (* 1715 )
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- June 30th : Teresa Albuzzi-Todeschini , Italian opera singer, alto voice (* 1723 )
Second half of the year
- August 12 : Nicolaus Ephraim Bach , German composer and organist (* 1690 )
- October 28 : Andrea Adolfati , Italian opera composer (* 1711 , 1721 or 1722 )
- October: Girolamo Abos , Maltese composer (* 1715 )
- December 6th : Roque Ceruti , Peruvian composer (* around 1683 )
- December 11th : Johann Wilhelm Gloger , German organ builder (* 1702 )
- December 22nd : Giuseppe Besozzi , Italian oboist (* 1686 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Giovanni Carestini , Italian opera singer and castrato (* 1700 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1760 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Libretti 1760 - 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 , p. 34.