Music year 1771

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Music year 1771
Composer Johann Adolf Hasse and librettist Pietro Metastasio conclude their life's work with the festival opera Il Ruggiero .

Events

• The Austrian composer Florian Leopold Gassmann initiated the foundation of the Tonkünstler Society , which organized music events for the public in Vienna.
• Det Kongelige Teaters Balletskole (in German: The Ballet School of the Royal Theater) in Copenhagen is founded.
• Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges is appointed director of the Concert des Amateurs orchestra in Paris.

Operas and other stage works

• January 16 : The opera Annibale in Torino by Giovanni Paisiello is premiered in Turin.
• In January receives Johann Adolph Hasse of Maria Theresia commissioned to celebrate the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and Princess Maria Beatrice d'Este , the festival opera Il Ruggiero after a libretto by Pietro Metastasio to write. Both Hasse and Metastasio concluded their life's work with this opera.
• April 18 : The world premiere of the operetta Der Dorfbalbier by Johann Adam Hiller based on the libretto by Christian Felix Weisse takes place in Leipzig.
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  Title page of the libretto of the opera Il Ruggiero by Johann Adolph Hasse
  June 2 : The opera Armida by Antonio Salieri based on the libretto by Marco Coltellini , based on the Armida material from the epic The Liberated Jerusalem by Torquato Tasso , has its world premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna. After its successful premiere, the work quickly spread across Europe.
• Autumn: premiere of the opera buffa in three acts L'inimico delle donne by Baldassare Galuppi (music) with a libretto by Giovanni Bertati at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
• October 17th : The Serenata Ascanio in Alba by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on a libretto by Giuseppe Parini is premiered with great success at the Teatro Ducale in Milan on the occasion of the wedding of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria with Princess Maria Beatrice of Este. 15-year-old Mozart wrote the music in just three and a half weeks. The opera Il Ruggiero by Johann Adolph Hasse was premiered on the same evening, but received little response.
• November 9 : The Comédie - ballet Zémire et Azor by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry based on the libretto by Jean-François Marmontel has its world premiere in Fontainebleau .
• The operas Quinto Fabio , Lucio Papirio and I visionari by the Italian opera composer Pasquale Anfossi will be premiered at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome.

Chamber music

• Luigi Boccherini - String Quintets Op. 10 (G. 265–270) and Op. 11 (G. 271–276), for 2 violins, viola and 2 violoncellos (including the one in E major, Op. 11, No. 5 ( G 275) with the famous minuet)

Church music

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Regina Coeli for soprano, choir and orchestra in C major (KV 108)
  • Litaniae Lauretanae de Beata Maria Virgine in B flat major (KV 109)
  • Oratorio La Betulia liberata (KV 118)
• Josef Mysliveček - Veni sponsa Christi in G minor

Keyboard music

• Joseph Haydn - Sonata in C minor, Hob.XVI: 20 (harpsichord, clavichord, fortepiano)

Orchestral music

• Luigi Boccherini - 6 symphonies Op. 12 (G 503–508)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Symphony No. 12 in G major (KV 110)
  • Symphony No. 13 in F major (KV 112)
  • Symphony No. 14 in A major (KV 114)
  • Divertimento No. 1 in E flat major (KV 113)

Born

Date of birth saved

• February 24 : Johann Baptist Cramer , English pianist and composer († 1858 )
• June 5 : Wilhelm Nikolaus Freudentheil , German pedagogue, Evangelical Lutheran clergyman and author († 1853 )

• October 1 : Pierre Baillot , French violin player and composer († 1842 )
• October 10 : Ambros Rieder , Austrian composer and organist († 1855 )
• October 21 : Alexandre-Étienne Choron , French musicologist and teacher († 1834 )
• November 5 : Michael Traugott Pfeiffer , German-Swiss music teacher († 1849 )

Exact date of birth unknown

• Josep Vinyals i Galí , Catalan composer, organist and instrumentalist († 1825 )

Died

• January 22nd : Martin Berteau , French cellist and composer (* 1691 or 1709 )
• March 1 : Isfrid Kayser , German baroque musician and Premonstratensian (* 1712 )
• March 30th : Anton Joseph Hampel , German developer of the forerunner of today's French horn (* 1710 )

• April 18 : Johann Emanuel pork , organ builder (* 1720 / 21 )
• May 12th : Johann Matthias Schreiber , German organ builder (* 1716 )

• June 5 : Matthäus Friedrich Scheinlein , Franconian violin maker (* 1710 )
• June 23 : Jean-Claude Trial , French composer, violinist and opera director (* 1732 )

• September : Pietro Auletta , Italian composer and organist (* 1698 )
• October 14 : František Xaver Brixi , Czech composer, organist and conductor (* 1732 )
• October 14th : Tobias Schramm , German instrument and organ builder (* 1701 )
• October 27 : Johann Gottlieb Graun , German violinist and composer (* 1703 )

• November 8 : Joseph Gabler , German master organ builder (* 1700 )
• November 18 : Giuseppe de Majo , Italian composer and conductor (* 1697 )

• Desboulmiers , French writer and librettist (* 1731 )

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1771  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1771  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 96–98 and 132
2. ^ Remigio Coli: Luigi Boccherini. La vita e le opere , Maria Pacini Fazzi Editore: Lucca 2005, pp. 99-100 and 132