1773 in music

Events

January 18 – The first opera performance in the Swedish language, Thetis and Phelée, starring Carl Stenborg, Elisabeth Olin and Hedvig Wigert in Bollhuset in Stockholm, Sweden, marks the establishment of the Royal Swedish Opera.
February – Joseph Leutgeb tours Italy with Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
May 28 – The opera Alceste by Anton Schweitzer with German language libretto by poet Christoph Martin Wieland is premièred by the Seyler Theatre Company at the Hoftheater Weimar, pioneering a German operatic style.
June 24 - Premiere of the ballet Adele de Ponthieu by Josef Starzer at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
July 14 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold go to Vienna in search of work but are unsuccessful and return in September to Salzburg where the family move from Wolfgang's birthplace in Getreidegasse to the Tanzmeisterhaus in Makartplatz.
Composer James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens in London.

Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 10
Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Harp in C major
Samuel Arnold – The Prodigal Son
Johann Christian Bach – 3 Symphonies, Op. 9
Jean-Baptiste Canavas – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 2
Christian Cannabich – 6 String Trios, Op. 3
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l’Esther
Jean-Louis Duport – 6 Cello Sonatas, Op. 3
Ernst Eichner – 6 Symphonies, Op. 7
Felice Giardini – 6 String Trios, Op. 17
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*String Quartet No.7 in E-flat major, K.160/159a
*Exsultate, jubilate, K.165/158a
*Viennese Quartets, String Quartets No. 8-13, K. 168–173
*Symphony No. 23 in D major, K. 181/162b
*Symphony No. 24 in B-flat major, K. 182/173dA
*Symphony No. 25 in G minor, K. 183/173dB
Johann Christoph Oley – Jesus meine Zuversicht
Gaetano Pugnani – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 8
Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Six String Quintets
Joseph Bologne Saint-Georges
*6 String Quartets, Op. 1
*2 Violin Concertos, Op. 2
Joseph Schmitt – 6 Symphonies, Op. 6
Carl Stamitz
*6 Quartets, Op. 8
*6 Duos, Op. 10
Johann Baptist Wanhal - Double Bass Concerto

Charles Burney – The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces
Michel Corrette – Méthodes pour apprendre à jouer de la contre-basse à 3, à 4, et à 5 cordes
Johann Friedrich Daube – Der musikalische Dilettant
Johann Adolph Scheibe – Über die musikalische Composition
Georg Michael Telemann – ''Unterricht im Generalbaß-Spielen''