Music year 1777
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Overview of the music years
Further events
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Events
- In the spring of the year, performances at the Mannheim National Theater , the first “German national stage”, begin . The director of the theater is Theobald Hilarius Marchand, Maria Marchand's father .
- After several unsuccessful requests for leave, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart submits his resignation to Prince Archbishop Hieronymus Franz Josef von Colloredo and asks to be released from the Salzburg court orchestra.
- Samuel Arnold becomes musical director of the Theater Royal Haymarket in London.
- The theory of music by Johann Nikolaus Forkel is published in Göttingen.
- Luigi Boccherini lived from the end of 1777 to 1785 in the seclusion of Las Arenas de San Pedro, where the Infante Don Luis de Borbón retired into exile.
Operas and other stage works
- January 30th : The original version of the sensitive Singspiel Lila by Johann Wolfgang Goethe is premiered on the occasion of the 20th birthday of the Duchess Luise von Sachsen-Weimar at the Weimar Liebhabertheater.
- June 19 : The premiere of Samuel Arnold's opera Polly takes place at the Little Theater in London.
- In the summer the opera Nitteti by Agostino Accorimboni based on the libretto by Pietro Metastasio has its world premiere at the Teatro detto della Pallacorda in Florence.
- In the summer, has comic opera in three acts L'Armida immaginaria of Domenico Cimarosa on the libretto by Giuseppe Palomba at the Teatro dei Fiorentini premiere.
- August 3 : The comic opera Il mondo della luna ( The World on the Moon ) by Joseph Haydn is premiered at Esterházy Palace in Eisenstadt. According to some sources, Carlo Goldoni wrote the libretto . According to other sources, a stranger merely edited a libretto that Carlo Goldoni wrote for the composer Baldassare Galuppi .
- August 22 : The premiere of the opera April Day of Samuel Arnold will take place on Little Theater in London.
- September 8th : World premiere of the opera Medonte, Rè di Epiro by Giuseppe Sarti at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.
- 23 September : The world premiere of the opera Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Torquato Tasso takes place at the Académie Royale de musique in Paris.
- Vicente Martín y Soler premieres his first ballet Achille in Sciro at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples .
Chamber music
- Luigi Boccherini - String Quartets op. 24 (composed presumably 1776–1777)
Church music
- Michael Haydn - Missa Sancti Hieronymi, "Oboenmesse" (MH 254)
- Gottfried August Homilius - Christmas Oratorio
- Antonio Salieri - La passione di nostro signore Gesù Cristo
Orchestral music
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major "Jenamy" (KV 271)
- Oboe Concerto in C major (KV 314)
- Johann Baptist Vanhal : Violin Concerto in B flat major
Popular music
- Thomas Arne - A-Hunting We Will Go (popular children's and folk song)
Born
- January 5 : Charles-Guillaume Étienne , French writer, politician, librettist and member of the Académie française († 1845 )
- January 5 : Fortunato Santini , Italian Catholic clergyman, composer and music collector († 1861 )
- January 12 : Stepan Dawydow , Russian composer († 1825 )
- March 10 : Johann Baptist Moralt , German musician and composer († 1825 )
- March 19 : José María Bustamante , Mexican composer († 1861 )
- April 18 : Ludwig Berger , German composer, piano teacher († 1839 )
- April 18 : Ignác Ruzitska , Hungarian composer († 1833 )
- June 15 : Johann Evangelist Fuß , Hungarian composer and conductor († 1819 )
- September 7th : Heinrich Stölzel , German musician († 1844 )
- October 6 : William Russell , English organist and composer († 1813 )
- November 5 : Filippo Taglioni , Italian dancer, ballet master and choreographer († 1871 )
- Gavrila Ratschinsky , Russian composer († 1843 )
Died
- January 10 : Emanuele Barbella , Italian violinist and composer (* 1718 )
- January 12th : Johann Ernst Hähnel , German organ builder (* 1697 )
- January 22nd : Simon Leduc , French violinist and composer (* 1742 )
- March 1 : Georg Christoph Wagenseil , Austrian composer (* 1715 )
- April 2 : Maxim Sosontowitsch Berezovsky , Russian composer (* 1745 )
- April: Johann Conrad Winter , German piano maker (* unknown)
- May 12 : Paulus Immler , German composer (* 1716 )
- July 1st : Leonard Conrad Winter , German piano maker (* 1728 )
- July 12 : Filippo Manfredi , Italian violinist and composer (* 1731 )
- July 27 : William Hayes , English organist and composer (* 1708 )
- July 31 : Heinrich Wilhelm Eckmann , German organ builder (* 1712 )
- August 15 : Pietro Antonio Gallo , Italian composer (* between 1695 and 1700 )
- August 17th : Giuseppe Scarlatti , Italian-Austrian composer (* 1718 or 1723 )
- September 1 : Johann Ernst Bach , German composer (* 1722 )
- October 12 : Friedrich Wenzel Neißer , German composer of hymns (* 1716 )
- October 13 : Dismas Hataš , Bohemian composer (* 1724 )
- November: Marco Coltellini , Italian librettist, printer and tenor (* 1719 )
- December 21 : Anton Cajetan Adlgasser , German composer (* 1729 )
- Ernst Eichner , German composer (* 1740 )
- Philipp Wilhelm Grüneberg , German organ builder (* 1710 )
- Petros Lampadarios , Greek composer (* around 1730 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1777 - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1777 - 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. 116 and 119