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Overview of the events of 1770 in music
Events
Classical music
Methods and theory writings
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Johann Caspar Heck – The Art of Playing the Harpsichord
- John Holden – An Essay Towards a Rational System of Music
Operas
Christoph Willibald Gluck –
Paride ed Elena, Wq.39
Published popular music
Births
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February 18 –
Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer (died
1846)
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February 20 –
Ferdinando Carulli, composer (died
1841)
[1]
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February 22 –
Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
[2] (died
1839)
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February 26 –
Antoine Reicha, composer (died
1836)
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May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, violinist and composer (died
1851)
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June 4 –
James Hewitt, composer (died
1827)
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November 8 –
Friedrich Witt, composer
[3] (died
1836)
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November 29 –
Peter Hänsel, composer
[4]
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December 13 –
John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer (died
1836)
[5]
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December 15 or
December 16 (baptized on December 17) –
Ludwig van Beethoven, composer and pianist (died
1827)
[6]
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December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer
Deaths
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February 26 –
Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer, 77
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April 19 –
Esprit Antoine Blanchard, composer, 74
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May 9 –
Charles Avison, composer, 61
[7]
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October 1 –
Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer, 64
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December 9 –
Gottlieb Muffat, organist and composer, 80
[8]
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December 13 –
Johann Heinrich Hartmann Bätz, organ-builder, 61
References
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^ Aaron Shearer (March 1985).
Classic Guitar Technique. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 70.
ISBN
978-0-89898-572-6.
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^
Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, Harvard, 1996, p. 952.
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^ David Mason Greene (1985).
Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 442.
ISBN
978-0-385-14278-6.
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^ Eduard Bernsdorf (1857).
Neues Universal-Lexikon der Tonkunst ... Unter Mitwirkung von Frz. Liszt, H. Marschner ... Robert Schäfer. p. 298.
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^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997).
Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 66.
ISBN
978-0-7201-2330-2.
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^
"When is Beethoven's birthday?". Classic FM. Retrieved 2022-03-22.
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^ Philip H. Highfill, Jr.; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (December 1973).
A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Abaco to Belfille. SIU Press. p. 180.
ISBN
978-0-8093-0517-9.
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^
Maunder, Richard (1998).
Keyboard Instruments in Eighteenth-century Vienna. Clarendon Press. p. 230.
ISBN
978-0-19-816637-5.