January 1 – "At length the fleeting Year is o'er", a setting by William Boyce of an ode by William Whitehead,[1] receives its first public performance, at St James's Palace in London, England.[2]
Gabriele Leone – 6 Duos pour deux violons qui peuvent se jouer sur la mandoline et sur le pardessus (6 Duets for two violins that can be played on the mandolin and on the descant viol)
Andrea Luchesi – 6 Sonatas for harpsichord and violin Op. 1
^The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... J. Dodsley. 1780. p. 2.
^"January 1, 1772". Music & History. Retrieved 3 September 2019.[permanent dead link]
^"January 2, 1772". Music & History. Archived from the original on 6 January 2017. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
^Classic FM Diary 2011
^Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harvard University Press. p. 631. ISBN978-0-674-00084-1.
^Johann Baptist Vanhal (2002). Flute quartet in C, op. 7 [i.e. 8] no. 6: (Weinmann Vb:C1). Artaria. p. iii. ISBN9781877231513.
^Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (1994). Haydn: Chronicle and Works. Thames and Hudson. p. 183. ISBN978-0-500-01168-3.
^Nick Rossi; Talmage Fauntleroy (1999). Domenico Cimarosa: His Life and His Operas. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 47. ISBN978-0-313-30112-4.
^ a bJno Leland Hunt (1975). Giovanni Paisiello, his life as an opera composer. National Opera Association. p. 70.
^John Glenn Paton (1994). Italian Arias of the Baroque and Classical Eras: High. Alfred Music Publishing. p. 127. ISBN978-0-7390-2191-0.
^Thomas Edward Brown (1998). Fo'c's'le Yarns: An Uncensored Edition of Four Manx Narratives in Verse. University Press of America. p. 260. ISBN978-0-7618-1215-9.
^Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1975). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800: Corye to Dynion. SIU Press. p. 23. ISBN978-0-8093-0693-0.
^Anya Laurence (1978). Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born Before 1900. R. Rosen Press. p. 59.
^Theodore Baker; Nicolas Slonimsky (1940). Biographical Dictionary of Musicians: Supplement 1949. G. Schirmer. p. 1076.
^Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Arthur Mees (1914). Descriptive Program. Orchestral Association. p. 261.