1763 in music

Events

*James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London
*The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, visiting Paris and London

Popular music

* "none listed"

Opera

*Pietro Guglielmi - "Tito Manlio"
*Joseph Haydn - "Acide"
*Vincenzo Manfredini - "Carlo Magno"

Classical music

*Joseph Haydn - Symphonies nos. 12 and 13
*Michael Haydn - "Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; "Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"

Births

*February 20 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
*March 6 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
*April 2 - Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
*April 7 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer (died 1846)
*May 4 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
*May 15 - Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
*June 1 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
*June 14 - Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
*June 24 - Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
*October 12 - John Ross (composer), composer
*November 28 - Matthaus Fischer, composer
*December 23 - John Davy, composer

Deaths

*February 7 - Christoph Schaffrath, composer
*June 1 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
*July 17 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
*August 14 - Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
*September 14 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer
*December 2 - Carl August Thielo, composer
*"unknown date" - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
*"probable"
**Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
**Giuseppe Paganelli, composer