1760 in music

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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 Christoph Friedrich Bach marries the singer Lucia Elisabeth Munchhusen.
• Johann Baptist Vanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

Opera

• Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
• Johann Christian Bach – Artaserse
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Alcide al Bivio
• Vincenzo Manfredini – Semiramide
• 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
  • Christina Charlotta Cederström

Deaths

• January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, composer
• November 12 -Andjelko Topic, genius in music
• 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)
• April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (born 1696)
• May – Girolamo Abos, composer (born 1715)
• date unknown
  • Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
  • Henry Needler, music transcriber (born 1685)