1770 in music

Events

• The "Concert des Amateurs" is founded by François-Joseph Gossec.
• Ballet is performed the first time in Oslo by Madame Stuart.

Classical music

• Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony no 11
• Pietro Nardini – Sonatas for 2 Flutes/Violins and Basso Continuo

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi – Armida
• Gennaro Astarita – Il re alla caccia
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Paride ed Elena
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Piramo e Tisbe
• Joseph Haydn – Le Pescatrici
• Antonio Sacchini – Calliroe

Published popular music

• William Billings – The New England Psalm Singer, featuring the song Chester.

Births

• February 18 – Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, composer
• February 20 – Ferdinando Carulli, composer
• February 22 – Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
• February 26 – Antoine Reicha, composer
• May 19 – Antoine-Charles Glachant, composer
• June 4 – James Hewitt, composer
• November 8 – Friedrich Witt, composer
• November 29 – Peter Hänsel, composer
• December 13 – John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
• December 15 or December 16 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer
• December 17 – Johann Friedrich Schubert, composer

Deaths

• February 26
  • Giuseppe Tartini, violinist and composer
  • Francois Hanot, composer
• April 19 – Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer
• May 4 – Christian Gottfried Krause, composer
• May 9 – Charles Avison, composer
• July 26 – Michael Schevenstuhl, composer
• October 1 – Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, composer