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Events

The Mozarts

• Leopold Mozart arranged at the beginning of a first concert tour for his six year old son Wolfgang and his older sister Nannerl four years to Munich and another in autumn from Passau to Vienna to present the nobility talented children.

Premieres

• January 20: At the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the premiere of the opera Alessandro nell'Indie by Johann Christian Bach takes place. The success of his operas makes Bach known abroad. Britain's Queen Sophie Charlotte hired him as their personal music teacher. In May, Bach leaves of absence from Milan's cathedral chapter for a year, and although the place is kept open for him, he never returns. He meets in the summer in London and soon begins with other compositions.
• October 5: In Vienna, the premiere of the opera Orfeo ed Euridice takes place ( Orpheus and Eurydice ) by Christoph Willibald Gluck Libretto by Ranieri with the de ' Calzabigi.

Ballet

• Jean Georges Noverre developed at the court in Stuttgart, the choreography for the ballet La Mort d' Hercule pieces and Psyché et l' Amour. The music for the second piece comes from Jean -Joseph Rodolphe.

Others

• Beginning of the year: Marianne Davies is the first concert on the developed last year by Benjamin Franklin Glass Harmonica.
• Joseph Haydn composed his Symphony No. 9 in C major.
• The second part of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's musical textbook Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard appears nine years after the first part. With the piano not only today's piano is meant, but, as Bach points out in his introduction, all keyboard instruments like the organ, the piano, the fortepiano and the clavichord.

Born

• JANUARY 5: Constanze Weber, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( † 1842)
• January 20: Jérôme -Joseph de Momigny, French composer and musicologist († 1842)

• February 2: Girolamo Crescentini, Italian Kastratensopran and composer († 1846)
• February 19: Friedrich Franz Hurka, Czech tenor († 1805)

• MARCH 24: Marcos António Portugal, Portuguese composer of opera and church music († 1830)
• March 26: Francesco Pollini, Italian composer and pianist († 1846)
• April 26: Pierre -Jean Garat, French singer (baritone ) ( † 1823)

• June: Giovanni Giorgi, Italian composer and priest (c. 1690)
• JUNE 16: Carl Christian Agthe, German composer and organist († 1797)
• June 19: Johann Christian Franz, German singer ( bass) and actor († 1812)
• 24 June: Johann Paul Wessely, Czech composer († 1810)

• December 25: Michael Kelly, Irish actor, singer, composer and theater manager († 1826)
• 26th December: Franz Wilhelm exchange, German clarinet virtuoso and composer († 1817)

• Feliks Janiewicz, polinischer composer and violinist († 1848)
• Joseph Reinagle, British musician and composer († 1836)
• Giovanni Francesco Zulatti, ionic doctor, composer and Officials ( † 1805)

Died

• April 7: Pietro Guarneri, Italian violin maker (* 1695)
• April 23: Johann Samuel Endler, German composer and Kapellmeister (* 1694 )

• July 5th: Jacob Adlung, German organist, composer, writer and music instrument maker (* 1699)
• JULY 20: Christoph Nichelmann, German composer (* 1717)
• JULY 30: Johann Valentin Gorner, German Baroque composer (* 1702)

• André- Joseph Exaudet, French composer and violinist (* 1710)
• Johann Berenhard Klausing, German organ builder (* 1683)
• Giacomo Giuseppe Sara Telli, Venetian musician and composer (* 1714)
• Johann Christian Schickhardt, German composer (c. 1680)