Music year 1762
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
The Mozarts
- At the beginning of the year, Leopold Mozart arranged a first concert tour for his six-year-old son Wolfgang and his four-year-old sister Nannerl to Munich and another one in autumn from Passau to Vienna to present the talented children to the nobility.
World premieres
- January 20 : The world premiere of the opera Alessandro nell'Indie by Johann Christian Bach takes place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples . The success of his operas also made Bach known abroad. The British Queen Sophie Charlotte hired him as her personal music teacher. In May, Bach took a year-long leave of absence from the Milan Cathedral Chapter , and although the position was kept open for him, he never returned. He arrives in London in the summer and will soon begin further compositions.
- Spring: The opera Il re pastore by Baldassare Galuppi based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere at the Teatro Ducale in Parma. Another setting by Johann Christoph Richter is premiered at the Kleiner Hoftheater in Dresden in the same year.
- October 5th : The world premiere of the opera Orfeo ed Euridice ( Orpheus and Eurydice ) by Christoph Willibald Gluck with the libretto by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi takes place in Vienna .
- October 19 : With the world premiere of the oratorio for the inauguration of the new St. Michaelis Church ( Come again Lord, to the crowd of thousands in Israel ) by Georg Philipp Telemann , the new building of the St. Michaelis Church in Hamburg, which burned down in 1750, is inaugurated. The text of the cantata comes from Joachim Johann Daniel Zimmermann . The premiere will be directed by the 81-year-old Telemann himself.
ballet
- Jean Georges Noverre developed the choreography for the ballet pieces La Mort d'Hercule and Psyché et l'Amour at the court in Stuttgart . The music for the second piece comes from Jean-Joseph Rodolphe .
Others
- Beginning of the year: Marianne Davies gives the first concert on the glass harmonica developed by Benjamin Franklin last year .
- Joseph Haydn composes his Symphony No. 9 in C major .
- The second part of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's musical textbook, An attempt on the true way of playing the piano, appears nine years after the first part. The clavier does not only mean today's piano , but, as Bach explains in his introduction, all keyboard instruments such as the organ , the grand piano , the fortepiano and the clavichord .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 5 : Constanze Weber , wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart († 1842 )
- January 20 : Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny , French composer and musicologist († 1842 )
- February 2 : Girolamo Crescentini , Italian castrato soprano and composer († 1846 )
- February 19 : Friedrich Franz Hurka , Bohemian tenor († 1805 )
- March 24 : Marcos António Portugal , Portuguese composer of operas and church music († 1830 )
- March 26 : Francesco Pollini , Italian composer and pianist († 1846 )
- April 26 : Pierre-Jean Garat , French singer (baritone) († 1823 )
- June 16 : Carl Christian Agthe , German composer and organist († 1797 )
- June 19 : Johann Christian Franz , German singer (bass) and actor († 1812 )
- June 24 : Johann Paul Wessely , Czech composer († 1810 )
- December 25 : Michael Kelly , Irish actor, singer, composer and theater manager († 1826 )
- December 26 : Franz Wilhelm Tausch , German clarinet virtuoso and composer († 1817 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Adelheid Maria Eichner , German composer, singer and pianist († 1787 )
- Feliks Janiewicz , Polish composer and violinist († 1848 )
- Joseph Reinagle , British musician and composer († 1836 )
- Giovanni Francesco Zulatti , Ionic doctor, composer and civil servant († 1805 )
Died
First half of the year
- February 11 : Johann Tobias Krebs , German organist, composer and cantor (* 1690 )
- February 12 : Laurent Belissen , French composer of the late Baroque (* 1693 )
- March: Johann Christian Schickhardt , German composer (* 1682 )
- April 7th : Pietro Guarneri , Italian violin maker (* 1695 )
- April 23 : Johann Samuel Endler , German composer and court conductor (* 1694 )
- May 8 : Joseph Nicolaus Torner , German organist and composer (* around 1700)
- May 16 : Ernst Christian Hesse , German Kapellmeister, composer and viol player (* 1676 )
- May 24th : Joseph Umstatt , Austrian composer (* 1711 )
- June: Giovanni Giorgi , Italian composer and priest (* around 1690 )
- June 21 : Johann Ernst Eberlin , German composer and organist (* 1702 )
Second half of the year
- July 5 : Jakob Adlung , German organist, composer, music writer and instrument maker (* 1699 )
- July 20 : Christoph Nichelmann , German composer (* 1717 )
- July 30th : Johann Valentin Görner , German Baroque composer (* 1702 )
- September 17th : Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist, composer (* 1687 )
- October 5th : Jacob Oertel , German organ builder (* unknown)
- October 6 : Francesco Manfredini , Italian composer and violinist (* 1684 )
- November 26th : Jacques-Christophe Naudot , French composer and flautist (* around 1690 )
- December 13 : Jonathan Krause , German Protestant theologian and hymn poet (* 1701 )
- December 24th : Johann Friedrich Constabel , East Frisian organ builder (* 1690 )
Exact date of death unknown
- André-Joseph Exaudet , French composer and violinist (* 1710 )
- Johann Berenhard Klausing , German organ builder (* 1683 )
- Giacomo Giuseppe Saratelli , Venetian musician and composer (* 1714 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1762 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : 1762 opera libretti - collection of images, videos and audio files