1764 in music

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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 –

Births

• January 13 – Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)
• March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
• March 2 – Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist (died 1836)
• May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
• September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
• October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
• November 30 – 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 Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)

Deaths

• March 30 – 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 – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1686)
• September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
• September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
• October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered)
• October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)
• date unknown
  • Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
  • Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)