Music year 1774

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Music year 1774
Charles Burney	Pasquale Anfossi

Events

August 25th : Niccolò Jommelli attends a performance of his last Miserere setting in Saverio Mattei's house , which is sung by the famous soprano Anna Lucia De Amicis . During the night he died of his second stroke.
December 6th : Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart travels to Munich, where his opera La finta giardiniera (KV 196) is premiered on January 13th, 1775 in the St. Salvator Opera House.
After the death of Florian Leopold Gassmann , Antonio Salieri was appointed chamber composer for Emperor Joseph II and conductor of the Italian opera in Vienna.
Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season to write an opera for the coming opera season. He composes the opera buffa L'Italiana in Londra, which will make him famous beyond Naples.
Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a student of Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna.
After the death of the previous conductor Ludwig van Beethoven the Elder, the grandfather of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven , Andrea Lucchesi was appointed court conductor of the electoral court orchestra in Bonn.

Operas and other stage works

April 19 : The world premiere of the opera Iphigénie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck takes place under the direction of the composer in Paris.
October 2 : A revised version of the opera Orfeo ed Euridice by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1762 based on the libretto by Ranieri de 'Calzabigi is premiered in French in Paris. The title role of this tenor version is sung by Joseph Legros .

October 11th : Antonio Salieri's opera La Calamità de 'cuori is premiered at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. The work received mixed reviews.

November 4 : The premiere of the comedy Berthe by François-Joseph Gossec takes place at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. The world premiere of the opera Lucio Silla by Johann Christian Bach takes place in Mannheim on the same day .

Title page of the libretto of the opera L'olimpiade by Pasquale Anfossi

Five operas by the Italian composer Pasquale Anfossi will have their world premieres. In Venice, L'olimpiade will be performed based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio and Lucio Silla, probably based on the libretto by Giovanni Bertati . In Rome it is Achille in Sciro on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio and La finta giardiniera (unknown librettist), and in Vienna it is the opera Il geloso in cimento on the libretto by Giovanni Bertati.

Chamber music

Luigi Boccherini
- 6 Quintetti op.18 (G. 283-288), for 2 violins, viola, 2 violoncellos
- 6 Quintettini op.19 (G. 425-430), for transverse flute, 2 violins, viola, cello

Orchestral music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Symphony No. 28 in C major (KV 200)
- Symphony No. 29 in A major (KV 201)
- Symphony No. 30 in D major (KV 202)
- Concertone for 2 violins in C major (KV 190 / 186e)
- Bassoon Concerto in B flat major (KV 191 / 186e)
- Serenade in D major (KV 189b)
- Serenade No. 4 in D major, "Colloredo" (KV 203 / 189ba)
- March in D major (KV 189c)
Carl Stamitz - Viola Concerto in D major op.1

Publications

Charles Burney publishes A Plan for a Music School .

Born

January 13 : Anton Dreyssig , German musician († 1815 )
February 16 : Pierre Rode , French violinist († 1830 )
0March 5 : Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse , Danish composer († 1842 )
March 30th : Friedrich Starke , German horn player, conductor and composer († 1835 )
0April 4 : Ignaz Ferdinand Arnold , German writer and organist († 1812 )
April 17 : Wenzel Johann Tomaschek , Czech music teacher and composer († 1850 )
April 21 : Jean-Pierre Aumer , French dancer and choreographer († 1833 )
July 12 : Jonathan Friedrich Bahnmaier , German theologian and hymn poet († 1841 )
0August 7 : Cayetano Carreño , Venezuelan composer († 1836 )
November 14 : Gaspare Spontini , Italian opera composer and conductor († 1851 )

Antal Csermák , Hungarian composer († 1822 )
Johann Majoleth (Gigerhannesli), Swiss folk music pioneer, broom-maker and "Bündner Münchhausen" († 1856 )