See also: 1771 in music, other events of 1772, 1773 in music, list of years in music.

Contents

1 Events 2 Opera 3 Classical music 4 Births 5 Deaths

Events

• Carl Stamitz is resident composer at Versailles
• Dr Charles Burney visits Johann Baptist Wanhal at Vienna

Opera

• Lucio Silla by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Classical music

• Quartet for Strings No. 3 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Missa Sancti Nicolai by Joseph Haydn

Births

• February 22 - Joseph Lipavsky , composer
• November 18 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet , composer
• unknown date - Stephan Koch , instrument maker

Deaths

• March 11 - George Reuter , composer
• June 15 - Claude Daquin, composer and organist
• November 5 - Johannes Schmidlin , composer