1764 in music

Events

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits Johann Christian Bach in London.
• The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.

Popular music

• None listed

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
• Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
• Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe

Opera

• Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
• Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
• Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
• Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti

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)
• 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 – Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)

Deaths

• March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
• April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
• September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
• September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
• October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
• date unknown
  • Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
  • Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)
  • Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)