1774 in music
See also: 1773 in music, other events of 1774, 1775 in music, list of years in music. 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.
Opera Iphigenie en Aulide by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Classical music Great Organ Mass by Joseph HaydnConcerto for Viola no 1 in D major by Carl Stamitz
Births January 24 - Karl Moser, composerFebruary 16 - Pierre Rode, violinist, composer, (d. 1830) March 5 - Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composerApril 17 - Vaclav Jan Krtitel Tomasek, organist and composerOctober 7 - Ferdinando Orlandi, composerNovember 14 - Gaspare Spontini, composerNovember 18 - William Horsley, composerDecember 20 - Guillaume-Perre-Antoine Gatayes, composer
Deaths January 20 - Florian Leopold Gassmann, composerJanuary 30 - Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma and Jean-Pierre Guignon, composersJuly 7 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composerAugust 25 - Nicolo Jommelli, composerDecember 2 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composerunknown date - Vodicka Vaclav
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