1774 in music
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[edit] Events
- Antonio Salieri is appointed court composer to the Emperor Joseph II.
- Domenico Cimarosa is invited to Rome for the opera season.
- Charles Burney writes A Plan for a Music School.
- Pascal Taskin becomes keeper of the King's instruments.
- Georg Joseph Vogler becomes a pupil of Giovanni Battista Martini at Bologna.
[edit] Opera
- Pasquale Anfossi - La finta giardiniera; Olimpiade
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - Iphigenie en Aulide
[edit] Classical music
- Great Organ Mass by Joseph Haydn
- Concerto for Viola no 1 in D major by Carl Stamitz
[edit] Births
- January 24 - Karl Moser, composer
- February 16 - Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830)
- March 5 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
- April 17 - Václav Jan Křtitel Tomášek, organist and composer
- October 7 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
- November 14 - Gaspare Spontini, composer
- November 18 - William Horsley, composer
- December 20 - Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
[edit] Deaths
- January 20 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
- January 30 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma and Jean-Pierre Guignon, composers
- July 7 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer
- August 25 - Niccolò Jommelli, composer
- December 2 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer
- date unknown - František Tůma, organist and composer
- date unknown - Vodicka Vaclav
