1767 in music

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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.

Popular music

• James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.

Opera

• Felice Alessandri – Ezio
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
• Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
• Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte

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

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)

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)