1764 in music
Events
Popular music
- The Temple of Comus or Every Gentleman and Lady's Beard, Brent and Lowe: Being Songs for the Year 1764
Classical music
Opera
Methods and theory writings
Births
- January 13 â Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)
- March 1 â Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
- March 2 â Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist (died 1836)
- May 15 â Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
- September 11 â Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
- October 21 â János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
- November 30 â Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
- unknown date
- Alexander Campbell, musician and writer (died 1824)
- Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
- probable
- Bernard Lorenziti, French composer (died after 1815)
- Jan Ã
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¥astný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)
Deaths
- March 30 â Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
- April 17
- Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich, composer (born 1687)
- Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
- buried June 6 â Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1686)
- September 10 â Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
- September 12 â Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
- October 22 â Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered)
- October 23 â Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)
- date unknown
- Josep Mir i LlussÃÂ, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
- Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)
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