1764 in music

Events

• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil of Johann Christian Bach.

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

• February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
• May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
• July 1 – Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer (died 1841)
• September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
• September 15 – Friedrich Heine (died 1821) and Paolo Francesco Parenti, composers (died 1822)
• October 14 – Charles-Henri Plantade, composer (died 1839)
• November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
• December 10 – Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
• unknown date – Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer

Deaths

• March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
• April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
• June 11 – Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer (born 1690)
• September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
• October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
• November 30 – Dieudonne Raick, composer (born 1703)
• unknown date – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)