1764 in music

Events

• April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where the 8-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach and writes his First Symphony.
• Autumn – Following the death of his patron Keyserlingk, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
• date unknown – The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.
• Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Kapellmeister at the court of Adam Patachich in Großwardein, replacing Michael Haydn and restructuring the orchestra of the bishop's palace.

Popular music

• The Temple of Comus or Every Gentleman and Lady's Beard, Brent and Lowe: Being Songs for the Year 1764

Classical music

• Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Trios, Op. 2
• Michel Corrette – Carillon, ajouté à la Messe des Morts de Gilles
• Joseph Haydn
• Symphony No.14 in A major
• Symphony No.15 in D major
• Symphony No.21 in A major
• Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
• Symphony No.23 in G major
• Symphony No.24 in D major
• Divertimento in C major Hob. XIV:4
• Qual dubbio o(r)mai
• Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
• Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
• Joseph Kelway – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.8
• Violin Sonata in C major, K.14
• Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, K.16
• Johann Baptist Georg Neruda – 6 Trio Sonatas
• Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Six sonates d'un goût agréable..., published posthumously
• Johann Schobert – 3 Harpsichord Quartets, Op. 7

Opera

• Florian Leopold Gassmann – L'Olimpiade
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
• Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
• Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
• Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Rose et Colas
• Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Egeria

Methods and theory writings

• Daniel Bayley – A New and Compleat Introduction to the Grounds and Rules of Musick
• L'Abbé Duval – Principes de la musique pratique
• Jean-Philippe Rameau – Traité des accords et de leur succession selon le système de la Basse-fondamentale
• Valentin Roeser – Essai d'instruction à l'usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor
• Francisco Inácio Solano – '