Music year 1770
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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 B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz . |
 celebrates successes on his first trip to Italy. |
Events
Mozart in Italy
Mozart (at the piano) makes music with Thomas Linley junior (violin), who is of the same age . Florence 1770
- Pope Clement XIV beats Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a knight of the golden spur in Rome .
- In Rome , after listening to the nine-part Miserere by Gregorio Allegri only once or twice, Mozart succeeds in writing down the basic structure of this score , which is kept strictly secret by the Vatican, from memory.
- Mozart studied counterpoint with Padre Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna . After an exam he is accepted into the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna . There he met such important musicians as Giovanni Battista Sammartini , Niccolò Piccinni , Pietro Nardini and Giovanni Paisiello .
- During his first trip to Italy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed the 10th Symphony , KV 74.
- The authenticity of the four D major symphonies Köchelverzeichnis 81 , 84 , 95 and 97 , all of which are said to have been written during Mozart's first trip to Italy, has not been unequivocally established. a. because there is no autograph .
- December 26th : The opera seria Mitridate, re di Ponto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has its world premiere in Milan. The text is by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi based on the drama Mithridate by Jean Racine in the Italian translation by Giuseppe Parini .
Operas and other stage works
- January: The world premiere of Commedia per musica Le donne letterate by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini based on Molière's comedy Les femmes savantes takes place at the Vienna Burgtheater . The text was originally intended for Florian Leopold Gassmann . Since he was traveling, the textbook was handed over to his student Salieri, who with this composition laid the foundation for his great career as a music dramatist.
- January 29th : The world premiere of the comic opera Die Jagd by Johann Adam Hiller takes place in Weimar.
- Carnival: The Pastorale per musica L'amore innocente by Antonio Salieri will be premiered at the Vienna Burgtheater.
- May 30th : The opera Armida abbandonata (The Forsaken Armida) by Niccolò Jommelli with a libretto by Francesco Saverio De Rogati based on Canto 16 and 18 from Torquato Tasso's epic The Liberated Jerusalem premieres at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Anna Lucia De Amicis sings the title role . Despite the widely acclaimed line-up, Jommelli's style with its chromaticism, complex rhythmic structures and dense instrumentation is not well received by the Neapolitan audience. The effect of the carefully worked out recitatives is lost in the high noise level of the theater. The 14 year old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits one of the rehearsals. On May 29th he wrote that the opera was well composed and that he liked it. In a letter dated June 5th, however, he remarked that the music was “beautiful, but much too clever and too old-fashioned for the theater”.
- September 3 : The world premiere of the opera La contessina (Das Gräfliche Fräulein or The Young Countess) by Florian Leopold Gassmann takes place in Mährisch Neustadt .
- November 3 : The world premiere of the opera Paride ed Elena by Christoph Willibald Gluck takes place in Vienna.
Chamber music
- Luigi Boccherini - 6 string quartets op. 9 (G. 171–176; " Ai Signori Dilettanti di Madrid ")
Others
- In November 1770, Luigi Boccherini becomes composer and chamber virtuoso (Italian compositore e virtuoso di camera ; Spanish compositor y virtuoso de cámara ) of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón y Farnesio , brother of King Charles III. from Spain. As a result, numerous chamber music works were created. Years later, Boccherini will follow the Infante into exile.
- William Billings publishes the church hymnbook The New England Psalm Singer. The hymnal includes Billings popular composition, the song Chester , which until the introduction of the official national anthem Star-Spangled Banner in 1931 as an unofficial national anthem of the United States was.
- Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes the conductor of the Prince-Bishop of Wroclaw , Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch , at Johannesberg Castle (Janský Vrch) in Jauernig ( Javorník ).
- The clarinetist Bernhard Schott founds the music publisher B. Schott's Söhne in Mainz .
- Around 1770 from the developed Ländler the dance form of the waltz .
Born
Date of birth saved
- February 2 : Johann Georg Oestreich , German organ builder († 1858 )
- February 10 : Ferdinando Carulli , Italian composer and guitarist († 1841 )
- February 18 : Christian Heinrich Rinck , German composer and organist († 1846 )
- February 26 : Anton Reicha , Czech composer († 1836 )
- April 15 : Jana Wynandina Gertrut d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner , German writer, singer and music teacher († 1847 )
- June 4 : James Hewitt , American composer († 1827 )
- September 3 : Johann Heinrich Karl Hengstenberg , Prussian hymn poet († 1834 )
- October 7 : Max Keller , German composer and organist († 1855 )
- November 8 : Friedrich Witt , German conductor and composer († 1836 )
- November 29th : Peter Hänsel , German-Austrian composer and violinist († 1831 )
- December 11 : Jan Theobald Held , Czech doctor and composer († 1851 )
Beethoven's birth room in the Beethoven House in Bonn
- baptized December 17th : Ludwig van Beethoven , German composer († 1827 )
Exact date of birth unknown
- Sergei Titow , Russian composer († 1825 )
Born around 1770
- Therese Bartolozzi , German pianist and composer († 1843 )
Died
Date of death secured
- January 20 : Georg Friedrich Einicke , German cantor and composer (* 1710 )
- February 26 : Giuseppe Tartini , Italian violin virtuoso and composer (* 1692 )
- April 7th : Christian Gotthelf Scheinpflug , German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1722 )
- April 19 : Esprit Antoine Blanchard , French music master, royal conductor at the French court and composer (* 1696 )
- April: Pasquale Bini , Italian violin virtuoso and composer (* 1716 )
- May 4th : Christian Gottfried Krause , German lawyer, composer and music writer (* 1719 )
- May 9 : Charles Avison , English composer (* 1709 )
- October 1 : Louis-Gabriel Guillemain , French composer and violinist (* 1705 )
- October 10 : Hieronymus Annoni , Swiss Reformed theologian and hymn poet (* 1697 )
- November 17th : Gian Francesco de Majo , Italian composer (* 1732 )
- December 9 : Gottlieb Muffat , Austrian organist and composer (* 1690 )
- December 13th : Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz , German-Dutch organ builder (* 1709 )
Exact date of death unknown
- Francesco Barsanti , Italian composer, oboist and flutist (* 1690 )
- Johann Jacob Cramer , German flautist (* 1705 )
- Benet Esteve , Catalan composer and organist (* 1701 )
- Wahlfried Ficker , German organ and musical instrument maker (* 1676 )
- Johann Georg Hörtich , German organ builder (* 1705 )
See also
Web links
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