1773 in music
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See also: 1772 in music, other events of 1773, 1774 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Mozart goes to Vienna in search of work.
- James Hook vacates his post at Marylebone Gardens.
Opera
- L'infedeltà delusa and Philemon und Baucis by Joseph Haydn
- La finta parigina by Domenico Cimarosa
- Alceste by Anton Schweitzer, with libretto by Christoph Martin Wieland
Classical music
- Concerto for Harp in C major - Johann Albrechtsberger
- The Prodigal Son (oratorio) - Samuel Arnold
- Trinity Mass by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Six String Quintets by Giovanni Battista Sammartini
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)