Music year 1773

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Music year 1773
Leopold Mozart	Domenico Cimarosa

Events

• The Austrian horn player Joseph Leitgeb will accompany Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on their third trip to Italy from February on, which they set out on October 24, 1772 and which will last until March 13, 1773.
• The third trip to Vienna by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold takes place from mid-July to the end of September.
• From October the Mozart family will be living on the first floor of the dance master's house in Salzburg, which had previously belonged to the Salzburg court dance master Franz Gottlieb Spöckner .
• The composer James Hook leaves his post in Marylebone Gardens, London.

Operas and other stage works

Title page of the libretto of the opera Nitteti by Luigi Gatti

• January 9th : The world premiere of the opera La Giannetta ossia l'incognita perseguitata by Pasquale Anfossi takes place at the Teatro delle Dame in Rome.
• January 18 : Under King Gustav III. opera performances begin at Stockholm's Bollhuset in Sweden.
• January 22nd : The opera Der Töpfer by Johann André is premiered in Hanau .
• In spring, the opera will Nitteti of Luigi Gatti after the libretto by Pietro Metastasio in the Teatro Regio Ducale in Mantua Vecchio premiered.
• April 5 : The world premiere of the comic opera Die Jubelhochzeit by Johann Adam Hiller with the text by Christian Felix Weisse takes place.
• May 28 : The opera Alceste by Anton Schweitzer with the libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland is premiered at the Hoftheater Weimar by the company of Abel Seyler .
• June 8th : The dramma giocoso La locandiera by Antonio Salieri, based on the play of the same name by Carlo Goldoni, has its world premiere with some success at the Vienna Burgtheater .
• July 26th : The world premiere of the opera L'infedeltà delusa (Love Makes Invention) by Joseph Haydn takes place in Esterháza .
• September 2 : The world premiere of the puppet opera Philemon and Baucis or Jupiter's Journey on Earth by Joseph Haydn also takes place in Esterháza.
• December 4 : The lyrical tragedy Sabinus by François-Joseph Gossec is premiered in Versailles.
• The opera La finta parigina by Domenico Cimarosa will be premiered in Naples.
• Andrea Lucchesi - L'inganno scoperto ovvero Il conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo Goldoni )

Church music

• Samuel Arnold - Oratorio The Prodigal Son
• Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - Oratorio La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l'Esther

Orchestral music

• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger - Harp Concerto in C major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Symphony No. 22 in C major (KV 162)
  • Symphony No. 23 in D major (KV 181)
  • Symphony No. 24 in B flat major (KV 182)
  • Symphony No. 25 in G minor (KV 183) "Little Symphony in G minor"
  • Symphony No. 26 in E flat major (KV 184)
  • Symphony No. 27 in G major (KV 199)
  • Piano Concerto No. 5 in D major (KV 175)
  • Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major (KV 207)
  • Serenade No. 3 in D major, "Antretter" (also: "Andretter") (KV 185 / 167a) (final music)
  • March in D major (KV 167b)

Chamber music

Jan Zach

• Luigi Boccherini
  • 6 Sestetti (also Divertimenti or Settimini ) op. 16 (G. 461–466), for transverse flute, 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (possibly with double bass)
  • 6 Quintettini op. 17 (G. 419–424), for transverse flute, 2 violins, viola, cello
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Six Viennese String Quartets (KV 168 - KV 173)
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Six String Quintets

Born

Johann Joachim Quantz

• 0January 4 : Johann Peter Heuschkel , German oboist, organist and composer († 1853 )
• 0February 2 : Vincenc Tuček , Czech composer († 1820 )
• March 15 : François René Gebauer , French composer and conductor († 1845 )
• May 26 : Hans Georg Nägeli , Swiss music teacher, publisher and composer († 1836 )
• May 29 : Ernst von Schwarzenberg , Prussian bishop, composer and canon in Cologne († 1821 )
• June 10 : Charles-Simon Catel , French composer and professor († 1830 )
• baptized on July 6th : Wenzel Matiegka , Czech composer († 1830 )
• July 25 : Ludwig Heydenreich , German Protestant theologian and hymn poet († 1858 )
• September 24 : Johann Philipp Christian Schulz , German composer and Gewandhaus Kapellmeister († 1827 )
• October 23 : Pietro Generali , Italian composer and music teacher († 1832 )
• December 24th : Joseph Woelfl , Austrian pianist and composer († 1812 )

• Lino Gallardo , Venezuelan composer († 1837 )
• Christian Gotthard Kettembeil , German businessman and theater manager († 1850 )

Died

Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder

Bernard Gates

• 0January 5 : Jan Adam Gallina , Bohemian composer (* 1724 )
• April 11th : Carlo Luigi Grua , Italian composer and conductor (* around 1700 )
• April 24th : Andreas Jäger , German organ builder (* 1704 )
• 0May 6 : Johann Peter Guzinger , German composer, chamber musician and violist (* 1683 )
• May 24th : Jan Zach , Czech composer and court conductor to the Elector of Mainz (* 1699 )
• 0June 3 : Johann Ludwig Konrad Allendorf , German educator, Lutheran pastor and poet of hymns (* 1693 )
• June 16 : Alexius Molitor , German Augustinian Father and composer of church music (* 1730 )
• July 12 : Johann Joachim Quantz , German musician and composer (* 1697 )
• August 19 : Burkhardt Tschudi , British harpsichord maker (* 1702 )
• August 26th : Georg Friedrich Schmahl (* 1700 )
• September 19 : Florian Johann Deller , Austrian composer and violinist (* 1729 )
• October 12 (buried): Martin Friedrich Cannabich , German composer, oboist and flutist (* around 1690 )
• November 15 : Bernard Gates , English composer, choir singer and conductor (* 1686 )
• 0December 1 : Girolamo Bon , Italian painter, theater decorator, machine master, composer, professor at an art academy (* unknown)
• December 14th : Johann Lorenz Bach , German composer (* 1695 )
• December 24th : Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, German singer and court conductor (* 1712 )

• Dietrich Christoph Gloger , German organ builder (* around 1705)
• Joan Baptista Pla , Spanish composer and oboist (* around 1720)

See also

Portal: Music  - Overview of Wikipedia content on music

Web links

Commons : Music 1773  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Commons : Opera Libretti 1773  - 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. 109, 113-114 and 132