# 1764 in music
## Events

* April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where the 8-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach and writes his First Symphony.
* Autumn – Following the death of his patron Keyserlingk, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
* date unknown – The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.
* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Kapellmeister at the court of Adam Patachich in Großwardein, replacing Michael Haydn and restructuring the orchestra of the bishop's palace.

## Popular music

* The Temple of Comus or Every Gentleman and Lady's Beard, Brent and Lowe: Being Songs for the Year 1764

## Classical music

* Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Trios, Op. 2
* Michel Corrette – Carillon, ajouté à la Messe des Morts de Gilles
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No.14 in A major
** Symphony No.15 in D major
** Symphony No.21 in A major
** Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
** Symphony No.23 in G major
** Symphony No.24 in D major
** Divertimento in C major Hob. XIV:4
** Qual dubbio o(r)mai
* Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
* Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
* Joseph Kelway – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.8
** Violin Sonata in C major, K.14
** Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, K.16
* Johann Baptist Georg Neruda – 6 Trio Sonatas
* Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Six sonates d'un goût agréable..., published posthumously
* Johann Schobert – 3 Harpsichord Quartets, Op. 7

## Opera

* Florian Leopold Gassmann – L'Olimpiade
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
* Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
* Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
* Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Rose et Colas
* Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Egeria

## Methods and theory writings

* Daniel Bayley – A New and Compleat Introduction to the Grounds and Rules of Musick
* L'Abbé Duval – Principes de la musique pratique
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Traité des accords et de leur succession selon le système de la Basse-fondamentale
* Valentin Roeser – Essai d'instruction à l'usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor
* Francisco Inácio Solano – Nova instrucção musical, ou theorica pratica da musica rythmica

## Births

* January 13 – Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)
* March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
* March 2 – Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist (died 1836)
* May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
* September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
* October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
* November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
* unknown date
** Alexander Campbell, musician and writer (died 1824)
** Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
* probable
** Bernard Lorenziti, French composer (died after 1815)
** Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)

## Deaths

* March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
* April 17
** Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich, composer (born 1687)
** Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
* buried June 6 – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1686)
* September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
* September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
* October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered)
* October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)
* date unknown
** Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
** Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)