1772 in music

Events

• June 5 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.^[1]
• Carl Stamitz is resident composer at Versailles.
• Dr Charles Burney visits Johann Baptist Vanhal at Vienna.
• Ignaz Pleyel becomes a pupil of Joseph Haydn.

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi – Alessandro nelle Indie
• Johann Christian Bach – Endimione; Temistocle
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Il sogno di Scipione
  • Lucio Silla

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphonies 44 "Trauer" and 45 "Farewell"
  • String Quartets, Op. 20
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Divertimenti K. 136-138 "Salzburg Symphonies"
• Andrea Luchesi – 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op.1
• Giovanni Paisiello – Requiem for Gennara di Borbone

Popular music

• Rev. William Leeves & Lady Anne Barnard – "Auld Robin Gray"

Births

• March 30 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
• April 25 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer (d. 1823)
• May 1 – Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare, cellist (d. 1823)
• September 3 – Nicola Tacchinardi, cellist and operatic tenor (d. 1859)
• October 4 – Francois-Louis Perne, composer
• unknown date
  • Franz Cramer, violinist (d. 1848)
  • Cyrill Demian, piano and organ maker (d.1847)

Deaths

• February 13 – Pierre-Claude Foucquet, organist and harpsichordist (b. 1694)
• March – Francesco Carattoli, operatic bass (b. c. 1705)
• March 11 – Georg Reutter II, composer (b. 1708)
• April 19 – Johann Peter Kellner, organist and composer (b. 1705)
• April 22 – Marie Favart, opera singer, actress and dancer (b. 1727)
• May 6 – Edmund Pascha, organist and composer (b. 1714)
• June 15 – Claude Daquin, composer and organist (b. 1694)
• October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer (b. 1711)
• date unknown – Francesco Barsanti, flautist, oboist and composer (b. 1690)

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