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1772 music
March 2026
Events
January 1 – "At length the fleeting Year is o'er", a setting by William Boyce of an ode by William Whitehead,The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... https://books.google.com/books?id=Yps8AAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA205 1780 J. Dodsley 2 receives its first public performance, at St James's Palace in London, England.http://www.musicandhistory.com/events?date_range=0&end_day=1&end_month=January&end_year=&start_day=1&start_month=January&start_year=1772 January 1, 1772 Music & History 3 September 2019May 2020 yes
January 2 – The funeral of Sigismund von Schrattenbach, Archbishop of Salzburg, is the occasion for the first performance of Michael Haydn's Missa pro defunctis Archespiscopo.http://www.musicandhistory.com/events?date_range=0&end_day=1&end_month=January&end_year=&start_day=2&start_month=January&start_year=1772 January 2, 1772 Music & History 29 April 2019 dead https://archive.today/20170106103638/http://www.musicandhistory.com/events?date_range=0&end_day=1&end_month=January&end_year=&start_day=2&start_month=January&start_year=1772 6 January 2017
March 13 – Florian Leopold Gassmann replaces Georg Reutter II as Hofkapellmeister to the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.
May 11 – A fire at the Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels causes performances by Opéra flamand to be cancelled.Le Guide Musical: Revue Internationale de la Musique Et de Theâtres Lyriques, Volume 22 1876 6 fr
June 5 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.Classic FM Diary 2011
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Carl Stamitz is resident composer at Versailles.Don Michael Randel The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians https://books.google.com/books?id=7iuZ6HaEMmoC&pg=PA631 1999 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-00084-1 631
Dr Charles Burney visits Johann Baptist Wanhal in Vienna.Johann Baptist Vanhal Flute quartet in C, op. 7 [i.e. 8] no. 6: (Weinmann Vb:C1) https://books.google.com/books?id=5DoWAQAAMAAJ 2002 Artaria iii 9781877231513
Ignaz Pleyel becomes a pupil of Joseph Haydn.Howard Chandler Robbins Landon Haydn: Chronicle and Works https://books.google.com/books?id=WfM2AQAAMAAJ 1994 Thames and Hudson 978-0-500-01168-3 183
Classical music
Johann Christian Bach – Symphonie Concertante in G C32
Luigi Boccherini
6 String Quintets, G.277-282 (Op.13)
6 String Trios, G.95-100 (Op.14)
6 String Quartets G. 177-182 (Op. 15)
6 Cello Sonatas
Christian Cannabich – Symphony No. 50 in D minor
Giovanni Battista Cirri – 8 Duets for 2 Cellos, Op. 8
Maria Rosa Coccia – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.1March 2026
Giovanni Battista Costanzi – Cello Concerto in D major (originally attributed to J. Haydn as Hob.VIIb:4)
Johann Christian Fischer – Oboe Concerto No.1 in C major
Florian Leopold Gassmann
La Betulia Liberata (oratorio)The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1996 9780674372993 297
6 Quintets, Op. 2
François Joseph Gossec – Symphony 'de Chasse', RH 41Gossec, François Joseph 1 269
Joseph HaydnPauline D. Townsend Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington 1884 121-124
Baryton Trio No. 76 in C major, Hob.XI:76
Flötenuhr in C major, Hob.XIX:10
Flötenuhr in C major, Hob.XIX:16
Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:6
Symphony 44 "Trauer"
Symphony 45 "Farewell"
Symphony 46
Symphony 47 "Palindrome"
String Quartets, Op. 20
Guillaume Lasceux – Magnificat in F majorMagnificat in F major (Lasceux, Guillaume) Magnificat in F major
Gabriele Leone – 6 Duos pour deux violons qui peuvent se jouer sur la mandoline et sur le pardessus (6 Duets for two violins that can be played on the mandolin and on the descant viol)https://www.vantichelen.name/2022/05/15/the-original-french-edition-of-barbella-violin-duets-by-leone/ Chronology of Barbella prints in Paris Van Tichelen 17 March 2026
Andrea Luchesi – 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op. 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Grabmusik, K.42/35a
Church Sonata in E-flat major, K.67/41h
Kyrie in G major, K.89/73k
20 Minuets, K.103/61d
Symphony No.15 in G major, K.124
Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K.125
Regina coeli in B-flat major, K.127
Symphonies 16-21, K. 128-130, 132-134
Divertimenti K. 136–138 "Salzburg Symphonies"
Wie unglücklich bin ich nit, K.147/125g
String Quartet No.2 in D major, K.155/134a
String Quartet No.4 in C major, K.157
6 Minuets, K.164/130a
Die Mailänder Quartette K. Anh 210–213
James Nares – 6 Fugues with Introductory Voluntary's for the Organ or Harpsichord
Giovanni Paisiello – Requiem for Gennara di Borbone
Stephen Paxton – 6 Solos for the cello, Op. 1
Franz Xaver Richter – 6 String Quartets, Op. 5
Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Symphony in A major, J-C 60
Carl Stamitz – 6 Symphonies, Op. 96 Symphonies, Op.9 (Stamitz, Carl Philipp) 6 Symphonies, Op. 9
Opera
Pasquale Anfossi –Alessandro nelle Indie
Johann Christian Bach
Endimione
Temistocle
Domenico Cimarosa – Le stravaganze del conteNick Rossi Talmage Fauntleroy Domenico Cimarosa: His Life and His Operas https://books.google.com/books?id=7EoyJnrEuDAC&pg=PA47 1999 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-30112-4 47
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Il sogno di Scipione
Lucio Silla
Giovanni Paisiello
La Semiramide in villa, R.1.31Jno Leland Hunt Giovanni Paisiello, his life as an opera composer https://books.google.com/books?id=w8AHAQAAMAAJ 1975 National Opera Association 70
La Dardané, R.1.33
Gli amanti comici, R.1.34
Antonio Salieri
La secchia rapita
Tommaso Traetta – AntigonaJohn Glenn Paton Italian Arias of the Baroque and Classical Eras: High https://books.google.com/books?id=dDy-RgkSf8UC&pg=PA127 1994 Alfred Music Publishing 978-0-7390-2191-0 127
Popular music
Rev. William Leeves & Lady Anne Barnard – "Auld Robin Gray"Thomas Edward Brown Fo'c's'le Yarns: An Uncensored Edition of Four Manx Narratives in Verse https://books.google.com/books?id=u-Pd0X8JJOkC&pg=PA260 1998 University Press of America 978-0-7618-1215-9 260
Methods and theory writings
Michel Corrette – Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à jouer la Mandoline
Louis-Joseph Francoeur – Diapason général de tous les instrumens à vent
Raparlier – Principes de musique
Johann Karl Gustav Wernich – Versuch einer richtigen Lehrart die Harfe zu spielen
Births
January 4 – Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, musician (died 1840)James Garratt 2002 Palestrina and the German Romantic Imagination Cambridge University Press 40 0-521-80737-9
February 26 – Kaspar Fürstenau, flautist (died 1819)
March 17 – Stephen Jenks, musician (died 1856)
March 30 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer (died 1847)
April 1 – Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer and conductor (died 1844)
April 25 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (died 1823)
May 1 – Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare, cellist (died 1823)
May 2 – Friedrich von Hardenberg, librettist and poet (died 1801)
June 10 – Greta Naterberg, folk singer (d. 1818)
June 12 – Franz Cramer, violinist (died 1848)Philip H. Highfill Kalman A. Burnim Edward A. Langhans A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Corye to Dynion https://books.google.com/books?id=N5HgNEf-oSYC&pg=PA23 1975 SIU Press 978-0-8093-0693-0 23
July 15 – Lucile Grétry, French composer (died 1790)Anya Laurence Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=Su4ZAQAAIAAJ 1978 R. Rosen Press 59
August 26 – Maria Frances Parke, composer (died 1822)
September 3 – Nicola Tacchinardi, cellist and operatic tenor (died 1859)Theodore Baker Nicolas Slonimsky Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: Supplement 1949 https://books.google.com/books?id=DKcMAQAAIAAJ 1940 G. Schirmer 1076
September 27 – Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Polish-Austrian composer (died 1807)Chicago Symphony Orchestra Arthur Mees Descriptive Program https://books.google.com/books?id=kxpGAQAAMAAJ 1914 Orchestral Association 261
October 4 – Francois-Louis Perne, composer (died 1832)
November 10– Johann Nepomuk Kaňka, composer (died 1865)
November 18 – Prince of Prussia Louis Ferdinand, composer and prince (died 1806)
December 8 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, patron of Beethoven (died 1816)
unknown date – Cyrill Demian, piano and organ maker (died 1847)
Deaths
February 13 – Pierre-Claude Foucquet, organist and harpsichordist (born 1694)The Organ, Volume 7 Musical Opinion 1927 134
March – Francesco Carattoli, operatic bass (born 1705)
March 11 – Georg Reutter II, composer (born 1708)
April 19 – Johann Peter Kellner, organist and composer (born 1705)
April 22 – Marie Favart, opera singer, actress and dancer (born 1727)
May 6 – Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (born 1714)
June 15 – Claude Daquin, composer and organist (born 1694)
August 21 – Alessandro Felici, Italian composer (born 1742)
October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (born 1711)
Panna Cinka, violinist (born 1711)
References
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