Music year 1763
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
The Mozarts
- February 28 : Leopold Mozart is appointed Vice Kapellmeister in the Salzburg court orchestra by decree of the prince-archbishop.
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- June 9 : After the success of his child prodigies Wolfgang and Nannerl in Vienna and Munich last year, Leopold Mozart is organizing a new concert tour through Europe with his children, which will take them to Paris on November 18 .
Other events
- April 6 : The Palais Royal , seat of the Paris Opera , burns down completely.
- August 14 : Archbishop Sigismund III. Christoph von Schrattenbach appoints Michael Haydn as court composer ( court musician and concert master ) in Salzburg.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach published “ Six Sonatas for the Clavier ” with Georg Ludewig Winter in Berlin as “two” and the last continuation of his sonatas from 1760 and 1761.
- Luigi Boccherini and his father were in Vienna for the third and last time from April 1763 to Easter 1764 , where they were employed in the orchestra of the Kärntnertortheater , under the direction of Gluck (Luigi's sister Maria Ester is prima ballerina in Vienna). Luigi appears several times as a soloist in his own cello concertos and in a Sinfonia concertante by Florian Gassmann .
- Joseph Haydn composes among other things his 12th , 13th and 40th symphonies .
- Jean-Philippe Rameau composed his last opera, Les Boréades , which, however, was no longer performed during his lifetime.
World premieres
- Carnival: The opera Demofoonte by Gian Francesco de Majo on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
- February 19 : The opera Orione by Johann Christian Bach has its world premiere at the King's Theater in London.
- May 7th : The opera Zanaida by Johann Christian Bach is premiered at the King's Theater in London.
- May 14 : The opera Il trionfo di Clelia by Christoph Willibald Gluck has its world premiere in Bologna at the opening of the local Teatro Comunale, built by Antonio Galli da Bibiena .
- October 4th : The world premiere of the opera Ifigenia in Tauride by Tommaso Traetta takes place in Vienna.
- December 26 : The second version of Gluck's opera Ezio based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 16 : Franz von Walsegg , Austrian nobleman and hobby composer, client for Mozart's Requiem († 1827 )
- February 19 : Adalbert Gyrowetz , Austrian composer († 1850 )
- March 6 : Jean-Xavier Lefèvre , Swiss composer and music teacher († 1829 )
- April 7th : Domenico Dragonetti , Italian double bass player and composer († 1846 )
- May 15 : Franz Danzi , German composer († 1826 )
- June 1 : Antonio Dall'Occa , Italian double bass player († 1846 )
- June 14 : Johann Simon Mayr , German composer and music teacher († 1845 )
- June 22nd : Étienne-Nicolas Méhul , French composer († 1817 )
- July 24th : Louise Müller , German singer and piano teacher († 1829 )
- September 24 : Christian Ludwig Bachmann , German doctor and music writer († 1813 )
- November 10 : František Martin Pecháček , Czech composer († 1816 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Marcos Coelho Neto , Brazilian composer († 1823 )
Died
First half of the year
- January 3rd : Josep Antoni Martí , Spanish composer
- January 11th : Giovanni Benedetto Platti , Italian oboist and composer
- January 13th : Johann Michael Hartung , German master organ builder (* 1708 )
- February 12 : Gottfried Heinrich Bach , son of Johann Sebastian Bach, possibly author of a piano piece (* 1724 )
- 17 February or after 5 November: Christoph Schaffrath , German composer, harpsichordist and musicologist (* 1709 or 1710 / 11 )
- March 20 : Maximilian Hellmann , Austrian cymbalist, timpanist and composer (* 1702 )
- April 4 : Richard Mudge , English pastor and composer (* 1718 )
- April 13 : Christian Zell , German harpsichord maker (* around 1683 )
- May 28 : Jacob Hochbrucker , German harpist, plucked instrument maker, violin maker and lute maker (* around 1673 )
- June 1 : Johann Caspar Vogler , German organist and composer (* 1696 )
Second half of the year
- July 16 : Jacques-Martin Hotteterre , French composer and flautist (* 1674 )
- July 17th : Wenzel Raimund Birck , Austrian composer and organist (* 1718 )
- August 9 : Johann Daniel Hardt , German gambist and composer (* 1696 )
- August 14 : Giovanni Battista Somis , Italian violinist and composer (* 1686 )
- September 14th : Johann Philipp Sack , German composer and keyboard player (* 1722 )
- November 1 : Michael Jacob Bagewitz , German Protestant theologian and song writer (* 1699 )
- November: Giovanni Claudio Pasquini , Italian poet and librettist (* 1695 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Christian Müller , German-Dutch organ builder (* 1690 )
Died around 1763
- Johann Gottlieb Janitsch , German composer (* 1708 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1763 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : 1763 opera libretti - 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. 40-42