1773 in music

Events

January 18 – Carl Stenborg, Elisabeth Olin and Hedvig Wigert star in Thetis and Phelée, the inaugural production of the Royal Swedish Opera.
February – Joseph Leutgeb tours Italy with Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
July 14 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his father Leopold go to Vienna in search of work.
James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.

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)

Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Harp in C major
Samuel Arnold – The Prodigal Son (oratorio)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 25 in G minor
Giovanni Battista Sammartini – Six String Quintets
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf - La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l’Esther (oratorio)

January 4 – Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer (died 1853)
March 7 – Tommaso Marchesi, composer (died 1852)
May 26 – Hans Georg Nägeli, composer (died 1836)
July 6 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer (died 1830)
September 24 – Johann Philipp Christian Schulz, composer (died 1827)
October 23 – Pietro Generali, composer (died 1832)
December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, musician and writer (died 1867)
December 24 – Joseph Wölfl, pianist and composer (died 1812)
exact date unknown
- Edward Bunting, Irish folk song collector
- Inga Åberg, opera singer and actress

April 11 – Carlo Grua, composer (b. c. 1700)
April 12 – Elizabeth Young, operatic contralto and actress (b. c. 1730)
May 24 – Jan Zach, violinist, organist and composer (b. 1699)
July 12 – Johann Joachim Quantz, flautist and composer (b. 1697)
August 25 – Franz Nikolaus Novotny, organist and composer (born 1743)
date unknown
- Francis Hutcheson (b. c. 1722)
- Joan Baptista Pla, oboist and composer (b. c. 1720)
- Hester Santlow, "England's first ballerina" (b. c. 1690)

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