Events in Music
- Apr 19 CW Glucks opera "Iphigenia in Aulis" premieres in Paris
Musicians Born in 1774
- Jan 24 Karl Moser, German composer and violinist, born in Berlin (1851)
- Feb 16 Pierre Rode, French composer and violinist, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine (d. 1830)
- Mar 5 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
- Mar 20 John Braham, English tenor singer and composer, born in London (d. 1856)
- Apr 17 Václav Tomášek, Czech pianist, composer (Eclogues), and pedagogue, born in Skuteč, Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1850)
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Musicians Who Died in 1774
- Jan 30 František Tůma, Czech composer, dies at 69
- Jan 30 Jean-Pierre Guignon [Giovanni Pietro Ghignone], Italian-French violinist and composer, dies at 71
- Feb 10 Florian Leopold Gassmann, Bohemian composer, dies at 44
- Jul 7 Giuseppe Maria Carretti, Italian composer, dies at 83
- Aug 25 Niccolò Jommelli, Italian composer, dies at 59
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