1772 in music

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See also: 1771 in music, other events of 1772, 1773 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Carl Stamitz is resident composer at Versailles
• Dr Charles Burney visits Johann Baptist Wanhal at Vienna

Opera

• Pasquale Anfossi - Alessandro nelle Indie
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Lucio Silla

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn - Missa Sancti Nicolai
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Quartet for Strings No. 3

Births

• February 22 - Joseph Lipavsky and Karl Jacob Wagner, composers
• March 27 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
• March 30 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
• April 1 - Ignaz Franz von Mosel, composer
• July 25 - Gottlob Benedikt Bierey, composer
• October 4 - Francois-Louis Perne, composer
• October 25 - Corneille Vander Planken, composer
• November 10 - Jan Nepomuk Kanka, composer
• November 18 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer
• December 7 - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer
• unknown date - Stephan Koch, instrument maker

Deaths

• March 11 - George Reuter, composer
• April 19 - Johann Peter Kellner, composer
• May 11 - Henri-Jean Rigel, composer
• June 15 - Claude Daquin, composer and organist
• August 21 - Alessandro Felici and Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composers
• October 8 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer
• November 5 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer
• December 12 - Johann Gottfried Seyfert, composer