1773 in music - Definition and Overview

See also: 1772 in music, other events of 1773, 1774 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Mozart goes to Vienna in search of work.
• James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.

Opera

• L'infedeltà delusa and Philemon und Baucis by Joseph Haydn
• La finta parigina by Domenico Cimarosa

Classical music

• Trinity Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Six String Quintets by Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Births

• January 4 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
• February 2 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
• March 4 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
• March 7 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
• April 8 - Josephina Grassini, soprano
• May 26 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
• June 3 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
• July 6 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
• July 23 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
• August 25 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
• September 24 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
• October 23 - Pietro Generali, composer
• December 24 - Joseph Wolfl, pianist and composer
• exact date unknown - Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector

Deaths

• April 19 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
• May 24 - Jan Zach, composer
• July 12 - Johann Joachim Quantz
• November 25 - Carl Hockh, composer
• December 12 - Alessandro Piccinini
• exact date unknown - Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)