1769 in music
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Opera
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Deaths
- March 27 – Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
- September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker (b. 1700)
- unknown date – James Oswald, composer