1771 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• March 28 – Mozart returns to Salzburg from a tour of Italy but is back in Milan for the premiere of his opera Ascanio in Alba on October 17.[1]
• Foundation of the Royal Theatre Ballet School in Copenhagen, Denmark.[2]
• The Chevalier de Saint-Georges is appointed maestro of the Concert des Amateurs in Paris.[3]
• Probable[4] – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Hoffkomponist (court composer) to Philipp Gotthard von Schaffgotsch, Prince-Bishop of Breslau, at château Jánský Vrch (Johannesberg) in Javorník.

Classical music

• Carl Friedrich Abel
  • 6 Trio Sonatas, WK 86-91 Op. 9
  • 6 Easy Sonatas, WK 141-146
• Luigi Boccherini
  • Cello Sonata in A major, G.4
  • 6 String Quintets, G.265-270, Op. 10
  • 6 String Quintets Op. 11 (with the famous minuet, No. 5 (G 275))
  • Symphony in D major, Op. 12 no 1/G 503
  • Symphony in E-flat major, Op. 12 no 2/G 504
  • Symphony in C major, Op. 12 no 3/G 505
• František Xaver Brixi – Pastorella in C major for organ
• Muzio Clementi – 6 Piano Sonatas, Op. 1
• Ernst Eichner
  • 3 Harpsichord Trios, Op. 3
  • Harp Concerto in D major, Op. 9
• Baldassare Galuppi – Jephte et Helcana (oratorio)
• Tommaso Giordani – 6 Harpsichord Quintets, Op. 1
• Joseph Haydn
  • Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:7
  • Baryton Trio in A major, Hob.XI:9
  • Baryton Trio in B minor, Hob.XI:96
  • Piano Sonata in C minor Hob. XVI:20
  • Keyboard Concerto in C major, Hob.XVIII:10
  • Symphony No. 42
  • Symphony No. 43
• James Hook – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 1
• Thomas Linley Jr – Violin Concerto in F major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Symphony No. 12
  • Symphony No. 13
  • Symphony No. 14
  • Divertimento No. 1 in E-flat major, K. 113
  • Regina Coeli for soprano, chorus and orchestra in C major, K. 108/74d
  • Litaniae Lauretanae in B-flat major, K. 109/74e
  • Betulia liberata, oratorio K. 118/74c
• Josef Mysliveček – Veni sponsa Christi
• Johann Gottfried Wilhelm Palschau – Harpsichord Concertos No.1-2
• Johann Baptist Vanhal
  • 6 String Quartets, Op. 6
  • 6 Oboe Quartets, Op. 7

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi
  • Lucio Papirio
  • Quinto Fabio
  • I visionari
• Thomas Arne – The Fairy Prince
• André Grétry
  • L'ami de la maison
  • Zémire et Azor
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Ruggiero
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Ascanio in Alba
• Josef Mysliveček – Il Gran Tamerlano
• Giovanni Paisiello
  • Annibale in Torino
  • Artaserse, R.1.30
• Antonio Salieri – Armida

Methods and theory writings

• Anselm Bayly – A Practical Treatise on Singing and Playing
• Anton Bemetzrieder – Leçons de clavecin, et principes d’harmonie
• Charles Burney – The Present State of Music in France and Italy
• Johann Kirnberger – Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik

Births

• February 9 – Daniel Belknap, composer (d. 1815)
• February 24 – Johann Baptist Cramer, pianist (d. 1858)
• March 21 – Thomas John Dibdin, dramatist and songwriter (d. 1841)
• May 13 – Siegfried August Mahlmann, librettist and poet (died 1826)
• June 1 – Ferdinando Paër, Italian composer (died 1839)
• August 15 – Walter Scott, librettist and novelist (died 1832)
• August 27 – Friedrich Methfessel, composer (died 1807)
• September 17 – Johann August Apel, librettist (d. 1816)
• October 1 – Pierre Baillot, violinist and composer (d. 1842)
• October 3 – Auguste Creuzé de Lesser, librettist and politician (died 1839)
• October 29 – Anna Leonore König, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (d. 1854)
• November 4 – James Montgomery, librettist and editor (died 1854)
• November 17 – Jonathan Huntington, composer (d. 1838)
• December 26 – Heinrich Joseph von Collin, librettist and poet (died 1811)
• date unknown – Marie Antoinette Petersén, singer and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music (d. 1855)
  • Margareta Sofia Lagerqvist, opera singer (d. 1800)

Deaths

• January 23 – Martin Berteau, composer and musician (born 1691)[5]
• March 30 – Anton Joseph Hampel, horn player (b. 1710)[6]
• May 20 – Christopher Smart, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1722; possible liver failure)[7]
• May 29 – Johann Adolph Hass, clavichord and harpsichord maker (b. 1713)
• July 30 – Thomas Gray, librettist and poet (born 1716)
• October 14 – František Brixi, composer (b. 1732)
• October 28 – Johann Gottlieb Graun, composer (b. 1703)
• November 4 – Pierre Nicolas Brunet, librettist and playwright (born 1733)
• November 18 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian composer (born 1697)
• date unknown – Andrea Soldi, copyist and portraitist (born 1703)

References

1. Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 17. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0.
2. Carsten Wulff; Denmark. Udenrigsministeriet (1996). Denmark. Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ISBN 978-87-87646-70-3.
3. Partington, Charles Frederick (1837). The British cyclopædia of biography. p. 849.
4. Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-0-674-00084-1.
5. Charles J. Hall (April 1990). An eighteenth-century musical chronicle: events 1750-1799. Greenwood Press. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-313-26576-1.
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information. University Press. 1910. p. 74.
7. Chris Mounsey (2001). Christopher Smart: Clown of God. Bucknell University Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-8387-5483-2.