Music year 1769
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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 completes the oratorio The Israelites in the Desert . |
 becomes director of the Concert des Amateurs orchestra . |
Events
The Mozarts
- January 5th : After 15 months in Vienna, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returns to Salzburg with his family.
- May 1st : One year late, the opera buffa La finta semplice, composed by Mozart at the suggestion of Emperor Joseph II, is premiered in Salzburg . Rumors that the work was actually not composed by 12-year-old Wolferl himself, but by his father, delayed the performance. The libretto is by Marco Coltellini .
- December 13 : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets off with his father on his first trip to Italy.
Operas, other stage works and oratorios
- Beginning of the year: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , city music director in Hamburg, completes the oratorio The Israelites in the desert . The libretto is by Daniel Schiebeler .
- January 5 : The piece Lucile of Jean François Marmontel also has the song be Où peut être mieux on qu'au de sa famille its premiere , which is the unofficial anthem of France during the Restoration period.
- January 24th : The opera La clemenza di Tito by Pasquale Anfossi based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio is premiered in Rome. Another setting of the libretto by Johann Gottlieb Naumann will be premiered on February 1st either at the Kleiner Kurfürstlichen Hoftheater or at the Grande Elettorale Teatro in Dresden.
- August 24th : The opera Le Fest d'Apollo by Christoph Willibald von Gluck based on the libretto by Gastone Rezzonico , Giuseppe Maria Pagnini , Giuseppe Pezzana and Ranieri de'Calzabigi has its world premiere in Parma .
Instrumental music
- Luigi Boccherini
- 6 String Trio , Op. 6
- Sinfonia concertante ( Concerto grande à più stromenti obligati ) op.7, for 2 violins, solo cello and orchestra
- 6 string quartets op.8
- François-Joseph Gossec - Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op.14
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Te Deum in C major
- Johann Baptist Vanhal - String Quartet in B flat major, Op. 2 No. 3
Others
- June 23 : The University of Oxford awards Charles Burney a Doctor of Music degree with an anthem (18th Psalm) by Burnes being performed.
- Luigi Boccherini marries the soprano Clementina Pelliccia on August 17th in the church of the Real Sitio de San Ildefonso .
- François-Joseph Gossec becomes director of the Concert des Amateurs orchestra , a contemporary performance orchestra that quickly became famous across Europe.
- Václav Pichl becomes conductor of Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague .
Born
Date of birth saved
- January 2 : Nannette Streicher , German-Austrian piano maker, composer, music teacher and writer († 1833 )
- January 8 : Georg August von Griesinger , German diplomat, writer and friend of the composers Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethoven († 1845 )
- February 13 : José Antonio Picasarri , Argentine clergyman and musician († 1843 )
- March 13 : Christian Friedrich Gottlieb Wilke , German organist and composer, music teacher and writer († 1848 )
- March 25 : Salvatore Viganò , Italian choreographer, composer and dancer († 1821 )
- April 11 : Johann Georg Lickl , Austrian organist and composer († 1843 )
- June 1 : Joseph Xaver Elsner , Polish composer († 1854 )
- June 5 : Marianne Kirchgeßner , German glass harmonica virtuoso († 1808 )
- July 23 : Alexei Titow , Russian composer († 1827 )
- August 14 : Friedrich Ludwig Dulon , German flautist and composer († 1826)
- August 30 : Bonifazio Asioli , Italian music theorist, music teacher, harpsichordist, conductor and composer († 1832 )
- October 29 : Georg von Hofmann , Austrian playwright and librettist († 1845 )
- December 16 : Joseph Pauli , Austrian violin maker († 1846 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Daniil Kashin , Russian composer († 1841 )
Died
- January 27 : Matthias Amoor , Dutch organ builder in Groningen
- March 26th : Johann Gottlieb Tamitius , German organ builder (* 1691 )
- April 3 : Gerhard Tersteegen , German mystic and poet of hymns (* 1697 )
- April 24th : Philipp Friedrich Hiller , German pastor and hymn poet (* 1699 )
- September: Henri Hemsch , French harpsichord maker of German origin (* 1700 )
- October 9th : Marianus Königsperger , German Benedictine, composer and organist (* 1708 )
- October 14 : Francesco Corradini , Italian composer (* around 1700 )
- Chevalier d'Herbain , French composer (* around 1730–34)
- Ignacio de Jerusalem y Stella , Italian composer and violin virtuoso (* around 1710)
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1769 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1769 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Individual evidence
- ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, p. 87.