1762 in music

Events

• Johann Christian Bach begins composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time. He will spend the remaining 20 years of his life in the city.
• 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.
• The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies.

  Popular music

Classical music

• Carl Friedrich Abel – Six Overtures in 8 Parts, Op. 4
• Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
• *L'Aly Rupalich, H.95
• *Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.448
• *Sonatina in D major, H.449
• *Solo für die Harfe H.563 Wq.139
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Trio in B-flat major, F.50
• Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3
• Francesco Geminiani – The Second Collection of Pieces for the Harpsichord
• Joseph Haydn
• *Horn Concerto No.1 in D major, Hob.VIId:3
• *Baryton Trio in G major, Hob.XI:116
• *Symphony No. 9 in C major, Hob.I:9
• Louis Antoine Lefebvre – Andromède
• Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Christmas Oratorio

  Opera

• Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
• Johann Christian Bach – Alessandro nell'Indie, W.G 3
• Domenico Cimarosa – La Cleopatra
• Baldassare Galuppi – Antigono
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
• Johann Adolf Hasse – Il Trionfo di Clelia
• Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le Roi et le Fermier
• Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Il tesoro insidiato
• Niccolò Piccinni – Il Finto Turco
• Giuseppe Sarti – Didone Abbandonata

  Methods and theory writings

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, Part II
• François Clément – Essai sur la basse fondamentale
• William Riley – Parochial Music Corrected
• Antonio Soler – Llave de la modulación, y antigüedades de la musica

  Births

• January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer
• January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
• February 2 – Girolamo Crescentini, composer and castrato
• February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
• March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer
• March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
• March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
• April 4 – Stephen Storace, composer
• April 13 – Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
• April 26 – Shyama Shastri, 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
• December 25 – Michael Kelly, editor and tenor
• December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
• unknown date
• *Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
• *Michel Dieulafoy, French librettist
• *Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music

  Deaths

• January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
• February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
• February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer
• c. March 25 – Johann Christian Schickhardt, German composer
• April 2 – Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, Italian composer
• April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
• May 16 – Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
• June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian
• July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer
• July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer
• July 30 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer
• September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer
• October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer
• November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer