1764 in music

Events

 * April 10 – The Mozart family set out for London, where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart meets Johann Christian Bach.
 * Autumn – Following the death of his patron Keyserlingk, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
 * date unknown – The castrato Domenico Annibali retires from the stage.
 * Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf becomes Kapellmeister at the court of Adam Patachich in Großwardein, replacing Michael Haydn and restructuring the orchestra of the bishop's palace.

Popular music

 * The Temple of Comus or Every Gentleman and Lady's Beard, Brent and Lowe: Being Songs for the Year 1764

Classical music

 * Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Trios, Op. 2
 * Michel Corrette – Carillon, ajouté à la Messe des Morts de Gilles
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Symphony No.14 in A major
 * Symphony No.15 in D major
 * Symphony No.21 in A major
 * Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
 * Symphony No.23 in G major
 * Symphony No.24 in D major
 * Divertimento in C major Hob. XIV:4
 * Qual dubbio o(r)mai
 * Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
 * Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
 * Joseph Kelway – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Violin Sonata in B-flat major, K.8
 * Violin Sonata in C major, K.14
 * Symphony No.1 in E-flat major, K.16
 * Johann Baptist Georg Neruda – 6 Trio Sonatas
 * Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Six sonates d'un goût agréable..., published posthumously
 * Johann Schobert – 3 Harpsichord Quartets, Op. 7

Opera

 * Florian Leopold Gassmann – L'Olimpiade
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
 * Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
 * Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
 * Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Rose et Colas
 * Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
 * Johann Adolph Hasse – Egeria

Methods and theory writings

 * Daniel Bayley – A New and Compleat Introduction to the Grounds and Rules of Musick
 * L'Abbé Duval – Principes de la musique pratique
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau – Traité des accords et de leur succession selon le système de la Basse-fondamentale
 * Valentin Roeser – Essai d'instruction à l'usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor
 * Francisco Inácio Solano – Nova instrucção musical, ou theorica pratica da musica rythmica

Births

 * January 13 – Franz Lauska, Moravian pianist, composer and teacher (died 1825)
 * March 1 – Jeremiah Ingalls, composer of the First New England School (died 1838)
 * March 2 – Hélène de Montgeroult, composer and pianist (died 1836)
 * May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
 * September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
 * October 21 – János Bihari, Hungarian Romani violinist (died 1827)
 * November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
 * unknown date
 * Alexander Campbell, musician and writer (died 1824)
 * Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
 * probable
 * Bernard Lorenziti, French composer (died after 1815)
 * Jan Šťastný, cellist and composer (died c.1830)

Deaths

 * March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
 * April 17
 * Johann Balthasar Christian Freislich, composer (born 1687)
 * Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
 * buried June 6 – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, German composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1686)
 * September 10 – Giovanni Antonio Giay, composer (born 1690)
 * September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
 * October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697; murdered)
 * October 23 – Pierre-Charles Roy, librettist and poet (born 1683)
 * date unknown
 * Josep Mir i Llussà, Catalan composer and maestro de capilla (born 1700)
 * Lorenzo Zavateri, violinist and composer (born 1690)