1762 in music

Events

*Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time.
*Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
*Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.
*Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: "Llave de la modulación".

Popular music

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Classical music

*Johann Albrechtsberger - "Passione Domini"
*Joseph Haydn - "Symphony no 9"
*Leopold Mozart - "Sacrament Litany in D"
*Georg Philipp Telemann - "Christmas Oratorio"

Opera

*Thomas Arne - "Artaxerxes"
*Christoph Willibald Gluck - "Orfeo ed Euridice"
*Johann Gottlieb Naumann - "Il tesoro insidiato"

Births

*January 20 - Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died )1842
*January 21 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
*February 19 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
*March 24 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
*March 25 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
*April 4 - Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
*April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
*June 24 - Johann Paul Wessely, composer
*July 4 - Marco Santucci, composer
*July 20 - Jakob Haibel, composer
*August 10 - Santiago Ferrer, composer
*October 15 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer (died 1820)
*December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer

Deaths

*January 13 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
*February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
*February 12 - Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
*April 23 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer
*May 16 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
*June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
*July 16 - Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
*July 20 - Christoph Nichelsmann, klavecinist and composer
*September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
*October 6 - Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)