1762 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• 6-year-old Mozart and his older sister Nannerl perform before Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, in Munich and the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.
• 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.

Classical music

• Carl Friedrich Abel – Six Overtures in 8 Parts, Op. 4 (London)
• 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
• Michel Corrette – 6 Symphonies en Quatuor sur les Noëls
• Francesco Geminiani – The Second Collection of Pieces for the Harpsichord (London, arrangements by the composer from Opp.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and treatises on the violin and the guitar)
• 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 (secular cantata)
• Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • Minuet in F for Piano, K. 2
  • Allegro in B♭ for Piano, K. 3
  • Minuet in F for Piano, K. 4
  • Minuet in F for Piano, K. 5
• 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 (Madrid: Joachin Ibarra)

Births

• January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died 1842)
• January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
• February 2 – Girolamo Crescentini, composer and castrato (died 1846)
• February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
• March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (d. 1784)
• 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
• April 26 – Shyama Shastri, composer (died 1827)
• 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 25 – Michael Kelly, editor and tenor (died 1826)
• December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
• unknown date
  • Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
  • Michel Dieulafoy, French librettist (died 1823)
  • Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)

Deaths

• January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
• February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
• February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
• c. March 25 – Johann Christian Schickhardt, German composer (born c. 1682)
• April 2 – Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, Italian composer (born 1719)
• April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer (born 1694)
• May 16 – Ernst Christian Hesse, composer (born 1676)
• May 24 – Joseph Umstatt, composer (born 1711)
• June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
• July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 1699)
• July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
• July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer (born 1717)
• July 30 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer (born 1702)
• September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
• October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
• November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer (born c.1690)