1773 in music

Events

• Mozart goes to Vienna in search of work, and he finds some a lot actually.
• James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi - Demofoonte
• Domenico Cimarosa - La finta parigina
• Joseph Haydn - L'infedeltà delusa; Philemon und Baucis
• Andrea Luchesi - L'Inganno Scoperto, overo Il Conte Caramella (libretto by Carlo Goldoni)
• Anton Schweitzer - Alceste (libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland)

Classical music

• Johann Albrechtsberger - Concerto for Harp in C major
• Samuel Arnold - The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Trinity Mass
• Giovanni Battista Sammartini - Six String Quintets

Births

• January 4 - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
• February 2 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
• March 4 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
• March 7 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer
• April 8 - Josephina Grassini, soprano
• May 26 - Hans Georg Nageli, composer
• June 3 - Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
• July 6 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
• July 23 - Karl Ludwig Hellwig, composer
• August 25 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer
• September 24 - Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer
• October 23 - Pietro Generali, composer
• December 24 - Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer
• exact date unknown - Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector

Deaths

• April 19 - Florian Johann Deller, composer
• May 24 - Jan Zach, composer
• July 12 - Johann Joachim Quantz
• November 25 - Carl Hockh, composer
• December 12 - Alessandro Piccinini
• exact date unknown - Francis Hutcheson (songwriter)sq:1773 në muzikë