title: 1764 in music
text: # 1764 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach.
  * 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 – Nova instrucção musical, ou theorica pratica da musica rythmica
  
  ## 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)
  