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Overview of the events of 1770 in music
Overview of the events of 1770 in music
Events
Classical music
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
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 (baptized on December 17) – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer and pianist (died 1827)[6]
- 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[7]
- October 1 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, 64
- December 9 – Gottlieb Muffat, organist and composer, 80[8]
- December 13 – Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ-builder, 61
References
- ^ Aaron Shearer (March 1985). Classic Guitar Technique. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-89898-572-6.
- ^ Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.
- ^ David Mason Greene (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
- ^ Eduard Bernsdorf (1857). Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "When is Beethoven's birthday?". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Maunder, Richard (1998). Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna. Clarendon Press. p. 230. ISBN 978-0-19-816637-5.
