1767 in music
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[edit] Events
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach succeeds his godfather, Telemann, as director of church music in Hamburg.
- Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family travel to Vienna, stopping at the Abbey of Melk.
[edit] Popular music
- James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.
[edit] Opera
- Felice Alessandri – Ezio
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
- Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
- Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
[edit] Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 35
- Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C
- Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
[edit] Births
- April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
- May 4 – Tyāgarāja or Tyagaraja, composer and singer (died 1848)
- September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
- September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
- November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
- December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
- Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
- probable – Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
- June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
- August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
- September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)
- October 18 – Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer (born 1722)
- date unknown – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)