1772 in music

Events

• January 1 – "At length the fleeting Year is o'er", a setting by William Boyce of an ode by William Whitehead, receives its first public performance, at St James's Palace in London, England.
• January 2 – The funeral of Sigismund von Schrattenbach, Archbishop of Salzburg, is the occasion for the first performance of Michael Haydn's Missa pro defunctis Archespiscopo.
• March 13 – Florian Leopold Gassmann replaces Georg Reutter II as Hofkapellmeister to the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna.
• June 5 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf is ennobled by Empress Maria Theresa.
• date unknown
• *Carl Stamitz is resident composer at Versailles.
• *Dr Charles Burney visits Johann Baptist Wanhal in Vienna.
• *Ignaz Pleyel becomes a pupil of Joseph Haydn.
• * Opéra flamand is established in Brussels.

Classical music

• Johann Christian Bach – Symphonie Concertante in G C32
• Luigi Boccherini
• *6 String Quintets, G.277-282
• *6 String Trios, G.95-100
• *6 String Quartets G. 177-182
• *6 Cello Sonatas
• Christian Cannabich – Symphony No. 50 in D minor
• Giovanni Battista Cirri – 8 Duets for 2 Cellos, Op. 8
• Maria Rosa Coccia – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.1
• Giovanni Battista Costanzi – Cello Concerto in D major
• Johann Christian Fischer – Oboe Concerto No.1 in C major
• Florian Leopold Gassmann
• *La Betulia Liberata
• *6 Quintets, Op. 2
• François Joseph Gossec – Symphony 'de Chasse', RH 41
• Joseph Haydn
• *Baryton Trio No. 76 in C major, Hob.XI:76
• *Flötenuhr in C major, Hob.XIX:10
• *Flötenuhr in C major, Hob.XIX:16
• *Mass in G major, Hob.XXII:6
• *Symphony 44 "Trauer"
• *Symphony 45 "Farewell"
• *Symphony 46
• *Symphony 47 "Palindrome"
• *String Quartets, Op. 20
• Guillaume Lasceux – Magnificat in F major
• Gabriele Leone – 6 Duos pour deux violons qui peuvent se jouer sur la mandoline et sur le pardessus
• Andrea Luchesi – 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op. 1
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• *Grabmusik, K.42/35a
• *Church Sonata in E-flat major, K.67/41h
• *Kyrie in G major, K.89/73k
• *20 Minuets, K.103/61d
• *Symphony No.15 in G major, K.124
• *Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K.125
• *Regina coeli in B-flat major, K.127
• *Symphonies 16-21, K. 128-130, 132-134
• *Divertimenti K. 136–138 "Salzburg Symphonies"
• *Wie unglücklich bin ich nit, K.147/125g
• *String Quartet No.2 in D major, K.155/134a
• *String Quartet No.4 in C major, K.157
• *6 Minuets, K.164/130a
• *Die Mailänder Quartette K. Anh 210–213
• James Nares – 6 Fugues with Introductory Voluntary's for the Organ or Harpsichord
• Giovanni Paisiello – Requiem for Gennara di Borbone
• Stephen Paxton – 6 Solos for the cello, Op. 1
• Franz Xaver RIchter – 6 String Quartets, Op. 5
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Symphony in A major, J-C 60
• Carl Stamitz – 6 Symphonies, Op. 9

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi –Alessandro nelle Indie
• Johann Christian Bach
• *Endimione
• *Temistocle
• Domenico Cimarosa – Le stravaganze del conte
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• *Il sogno di Scipione
• *Lucio Silla
• Giovanni Paisiello
• * La Semiramide in villa, R.1.31
• * La Dardané, R.1.33
• * Gli amanti comici, R.1.34
• Antonio Salieri
• *La secchia rapita
• Tommaso Traetta – ''Antigona''

Popular music

• Rev. William Leeves & Lady Anne Barnard – "Auld Robin Gray"

Methods and theory writings

• Michel Corrette – Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre à jouer la Mandoline
• Louis-Joseph Francoeur – Diapason général de tous les instrumens à vent
• Raparlier – Principes de musique
• Johann Karl Gustav Wernich – ''Versuch einer richtigen Lehrart die Harfe zu spielen''

Births

• January 4 – Anton Friedrich Justus Thibaut, musician
• February 26 – Kaspar Fürstenau, flautist
• March 17 – Stephen Jenks, musician
• March 30 – Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
• April 1 – Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer and conductor
• April 25 – Louis Deland, actor, singer and dancer
• May 1 – Jacques-Michel Hurel de Lamare, cellist
• May 2 – Friedrich von Hardenberg, librettist and poet
• June 10 – Greta Naterberg, folk singer
• June 12 – Franz Cramer, violinist
• July 15 – Lucile Grétry, French composer
• August 26 – Maria Frances Parke, composer
• September 3 – Nicola Tacchinardi, cellist and operatic tenor
• September 27 – Antonio Casimir Cartellieri, Polish-Austrian composer
• October 4 – Francois-Louis Perne, composer
• November 10– Johann Nepomuk Kaňka, composer
• November 18 – Prince of Prussia Louis Ferdinand, composer and prince
• December 8 – Prince Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, patron of Beethoven
• unknown date – Cyrill Demian, piano and organ maker

Deaths

• February 13 – Pierre-Claude Foucquet, organist and harpsichordist
• March – Francesco Carattoli, operatic bass
• March 11 – Georg Reutter II, composer
• April 19 – Johann Peter Kellner, organist and composer
• April 22 – Marie Favart, opera singer, actress and dancer
• May 6 – Edmund Pascha, organist and composer
• June 15 – Claude Daquin, composer and organist
• August 21 – Alessandro Felici, Italian composer
• October 8 – Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, violinist and composer
• Panna Cinka, violinist