1764 in music
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Events
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits Johann Christian Bach in London.
- The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.
Popular music
- None listed
Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
- Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
- Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
Opera
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
- Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
- Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
- Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
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)
- 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 – Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)
Deaths
- March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
- April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
- September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
- September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
- October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
- date unknown
- Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
- Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)
- Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)
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