1770 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• The "Concert des Amateurs" is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.
• Ballet is performed the first time in Oslo by Madame Stuart.
• Musikalisches Vielerley is published; a collection of pieces from various composers, edited by CPE Bach. (Hamburg: Michael Christian Bock)

Classical music

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Fantasia in D minor, H.224
• Johann Christian Bach
  • 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 7
  • 6 Quartets, Op. 8
• Luigi Boccherini – Cello Concerto in D major, G.479
• Joseph Haydn – Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:2
• Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major
• Gabriele Leone – Six sonatas for mandolin and bass marked with signs according to the new method, Op. 2
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony 11
• Pietro Nardini – Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo

Methods and theory writings

• Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing the Harpsichord
• John Holden – An Essay Towards a Rational System of Music

Operas

Christoph Willibald Gluck – Paride ed Elena, Wq.39

Published popular music

• William Billings – The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song Chester.

Births

• February 18 – Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer (died 1846)
• February 20 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer (died 1841)[1]
• February 22 – Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer[2] (died 1839)
• February 26 – Antoine Reicha, composer (died 1836)
• May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, violinist and composer (died 1851)
• June 4 – James Hewitt, composer (died 1827)
• November 8 – Friedrich Witt, composer[3] (died 1836)
• November 29 – Peter Hänsel, composer[4]
• December 13 – John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer (died 1836)[5]
• December 15 or December 16 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (died 1827)
• December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer

Deaths

• February 26 – Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer, 77
• April 19 – Esprit Antoine Blanchard, composer, 74
• May 9 – Charles Avison, composer, 61[6]
• October 1 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, 64
• December 9 – Gottlieb Muffat, organist and composer, 80[7]
• December 13 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ-builder, 61

References

1. Aaron Shearer (March 1985). Classic Guitar Technique. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-89898-572-6.
2. Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.
3. David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
4. Eduard Bernsdorf (1857). Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.
5. Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 66. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
6. Philip H. Highfill, Jr.; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (December 1973). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Abaco to Belfille. SIU Press. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-8093-0517-9.
7. C. R. F. Maunder; Richard Maunder (1998). Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna. Clarendon Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-19-816637-5.