1764 in music

Events

• April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach.
• 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
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22
• 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

  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
• March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School
• March 2 – Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist
• May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer
• September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer
• October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist
• November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
• unknown date
• *Alexander Campbell, musician and writer
• *Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
• probable
• *Bernard Lorenziti, French composer
• *Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer

  Deaths

• March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer
• April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist
• buried June 6 – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel
• September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer
• September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer
• October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer
• October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet
• date unknown
• *Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla
• *Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer