1769 in music

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Events

• Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
• Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
• 14-year-old Mozart hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
• Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
• Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.

Opera

• Jean-François Caillhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour

Classical music

• Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
• Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
• François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Te Deum in C
• Johann Baptist Vanhal – Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3

Births

• January 17 – Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
• March 7 – Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
• March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, composer
• April 11 – Johann Georg Lickl, composer
• April 12 – Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
• May 4 – Charles Hague, composer
• June 14 – Dominique Della-Maria, composer
• June 1 – Józef Elsner, Chopin's future teacher
• July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
• July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
• August 14 – Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist
• August 16 – Jean Aime Vernier, composer
• August 18 – Alexandre Stievenard, composer
• August 30 – Bonifacio Asioli, composer

Deaths

• March 27 – Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
• September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker (b. 1700)
• unknown date – James Oswald, composer