Music year 1767
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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 Georg Philipp Telemann dies in Hamburg. |
Events
The Mozarts
- March 12th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's first stage work, the Singspiel The Obligation of the First Commandment is premiered in the Knight's Hall of the Salzburg Residence . The libretto is by Ignatz Anton von Weiser . The second part, by Michael Haydn , will be premiered on March 19 , the third part by Anton Cajetan Adlgasser on March 26 . Mozart's work, commissioned by the Salzburg Prince-Bishop Sigismundus Christoph von Schrattenbach , is stylistically closer to the oratorio than to the opera ; the score of the eleven-year-old shows extensive aids from his father Leopold Mozart .
- May 13 : The world premiere of Mozart's second stage work Apollo et Hyacinthus takes place in the auditorium of the University of Salzburg. Rufinus Widl wrote the libretto.
- September: Leopold Mozart takes another trip to Vienna with his children Nannerl and Wolferl. To avoid the raging smallpox epidemic there, they travel on to Brno and Olomouc, but in October the two children also fall ill.
Further world premieres
- January / February: The libretto Ezio by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere in the setting by Ferdinando Bertoni at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice and in the setting by Felice Alessandri at the Teatro Filarmonico di Verona . Tommaso Traetta's setting of Metastasio's libretto Il Siroe will also be premiered at the Hoftheater in Munich .
- April 24th : The comic opera Lottchen am Hofe by Johann Adam Hiller has its world premiere at the Theater auf der Ranstädter Bastei in Leipzig, which opened a few months earlier .
- April 26th : The world premiere of the opera L'amore artigiano (Handwerkerliebe) by Florian Leopold Gassmann at the Burgtheater in Vienna , which will soon be performed across Europe.
- June 20 : The world premiere of the comic opera Toinon et Toinette by François-Joseph Gossec takes place at the Comédie Italienne in Paris.
- September 5th : Johann Gottlieb Naumann's setting of Pietro Metastasio's libretto Achille in Sciro has its world premiere at the Teatro di Santa Cecilia in Palermo.
- 9 September : Partenope , a libretto for a festa teatrale in two acts by Pietro Metastasio , is performed in Vienna for the first time in the setting by Johann Adolph Hasse on the occasion of the engagement of King Ferdinand IV of Naples to Archduchess Maria Josepha of Austria . Metastasio was reluctant to accept the assignment for his last Serenata because he actually wanted to retire.
- September 28 : World premiere of the comic opera Le Double Déguisement by François-Joseph Gossec at the Comédie Italienne in Paris
- December 26th : The opera Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on a libretto by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi has its world premiere in Vienna in Italian.
- Davide Perez 's interpretation of Pietro Metastasio's libretto L'isola disabitata has its world premiere at the Palácio Queluz near Lisbon.
Others
- In Paris , the first instrumental works appear Luigi Boccherini in the pressure: the string op 2 and the. Streichtrios op 1 (composed 1760-61).. Boccherini himself reached the French capital together with the violinist Filippo Manfredi towards the end of 1767.
Born
- baptized January 6th : Gaspar Smit , Spanish composer and organist († 1819 )
- January 14th : Friedrich Jonas Beschort , Hessian singer and actor from the Schröderschen and Ifflandschen schools († 1846 )
- April 27 : Andreas Romberg , German violinist, conductor and composer († 1821 )
- May 24 : Ferdinand Fränzl , German violinist, composer, conductor, opera director, concert master and music director († 1833 )
- May 24th : Joseph Ignaz Schnabel , Silesian composer and cathedral music director of Breslau († 1831 )
- June 26 : Katharina Kainz , German singer († 1836 )
- September 17 : Henri Montan Berton , French composer († 1844 )
- September 22 : José Maurício Nunes Garcia , Brazilian composer († 1830 )
- 11 / November 12 : Bernhard Romberg , German cellist and composer († 1841 )
- November 28 : Christiane Schumann , mother of the composer Robert Schumann († 1836 )
- December 13 : August Eberhard Müller , German composer and Thomaskantor († 1817 )
- December 30th : Mathieu-Jean-Baptiste Nioche de Tournay , French lyricist and playwright († 1844 )
Died
Date of death secured
- Beginning of the year: Bertin Quentin , French violinist and composer (* before 1690)
- January 3 : Luca Antonio Predieri , Italian composer and violinist (* 1688 )
- January 9 : Francesca Bertolli , Italian opera singer (* around 1710 )
- February 1 : Gottfried Kleiner , German Protestant clergyman and hymn poet (* 1691 )
- March 15 : Johann Carl Sigmund Haussdörffer , organ builder from Württemberg (* 1714 )
- May 15 : Franz Gottlieb Spöckner , Salzburg dancer and court dance master (* 1705 )
- June 24 : Johan Henrik Freithoff , Danish-Norwegian composer, violinist and civil servant (* 1713 )
- June 25 : Georg Philipp Telemann , German composer (* 1681 )
- July 3 : Matthew Dubourg , Irish violin virtuoso and composer (* 1703 )
- August 28 : Johann Schobert , German composer, pianist and harpsichordist (* around 1720 )
- September 19 : Johann Peter Migendt , German organ builder (* 1703 )
- December 23 : Johann Georg Aichgasser , Upper Swabian organ builder (* 1701 )
- December 27 : Johann Wilhelm Meyer , Swiss Reformed clergyman and hymn poet (* 1690 )
- End of the year (buried January 1, 1768): Jan Lauwryn Krafft , Brussels engraver, eraser, shape cutter, writer, publisher and singer (* 1694 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Jean-Baptiste Salomon , French violin maker (* 1713 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1767 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1767 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 39–40, 65 and 68.