1764 in music
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See also: 1763 in music, other events of 1764, 1765 in music, list of years in music.
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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
Opera
- La rencontre imprévue - Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Gli stravaganti - Niccolò Piccini
Classical music
- Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher") by Joseph Haydn
- Trumpet Concerto - Michael Haydn
- Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe by Ignacio de Jerusalem
Births
- February 8 - Joseph Leopold von Eybler, composer
- May 15 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
- July 1 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer
- September 11 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer
- September 15 - Friedrich Heine and Paolo Francesco Parenti, composers
- October 14 - Charles-Henri Plantade, composer
- November 30 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
- December 10 - Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
- unknown date - Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
Deaths
- March 30 - Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer
- April 17 - Johann Mattheson, German musicologist
- June 11 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer
- September 12 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
- October 22 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
- November 30 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
- unknown date - Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel
