1760 in music

1760 in music

Events

*Joseph Haydn marries, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
*John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
*"Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel", by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
*John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
*William Boyce's "Eight Symphonies" are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
*Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.
*Johann Baptist Vanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

Popular music

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Opera

*Thomas Arne - "Thomas and Sally"
*Johann Christian Bach - "Artaserse"
*Johann Adolph Hasse - "Alcide al Bivio"
*Jean-Philippe Rameau - "Les Surprises de l'amour"

Classical music

*Johann Albrechtsberger - "String Quartet in D"
*William Boyce - "Eight Symphonies"
*François Joseph Gossec - "Grande Messe des Morts"
*Michael Haydn - "Concerto for Violin in B flat major"

Births

*January 10 - Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer (died 1802)
*January 15 - Jean François Lesueur, composer (died 1837)
*January 19 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
*January 30 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
*March 27 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
*April 12 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
*May 10 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of "La Marseillaise" (died 1836)
*May 29 - Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina
*June 14 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
*September 21 - Gaetano Valeri, composer
*September 14 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (died 1842)
*October 1 - William Thomas Beckford, composer and author (died 1844)
*November 9 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
*December 2 - Joseph Graetz, composer

Deaths

*January 18 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
*February 14 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
*February 22 - Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
*March 10 - Christoph Graupner, composer (born 1683)
*March 14 - Anton Fils, composer (born 1733)
*May - Girolamo Abos, composer (born 1715)
*"date unknown"
**Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (born 1696)
**Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
**Henry Needler, music transcriber (born 1685)


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