1761 in music
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Events
- Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.
- Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.
- Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family
Popular music
- None listed
Opera
- Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette
- Florian Leopold Gassmann – Catone in Utica
- Baldassare Galuppi – Le Tre Amante Ridicoli
- Niccolò Jommelli – L'Olimpiade
- Tommaso Traetta – Armida
- Johann Adolf Hasse – Zenobia
Classical music
- Thomas Arne – Judith (oratorio)
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – Don Juan (ballet)
- François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, Op. 5
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony No. 6 ("Le matin"), Symphony No. 7 ("Le midi") and Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir")
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in C major
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart –
- Andante in C major for harpsichord, K. 1a
- Allegro in C major for harpsichord, K. 1b
- Allegro in F major for harpsichord, K. 1c
- Minuet in F major for harpsichord, K. 1d
Births
- January 20 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (died 1825)
- January 22 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart (died 1826)
- January 26 – Jens Zetlitz, songwriter (died 1821)
- February 15 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., composer (died 1826)
- February 20 – Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, pianist and composer
- February 22 – Erik Tulindberg, composer (died 1814)
- April 20 – Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
- June 13 – Antonín Vranický or Wranitzky, violinist and composer (died 1820)
- July 20 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer
- September 4 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, composer
- date unknown – John Andrew Stevenson, composer (died 1833)
Deaths
- January 3 – Willem de Fesch, violinist and composer (born 1687)
- January 18 – Francesco Feo, opera composer (born 1691)
- February 15 – Carlo Cecere, composer (born 1706)
- March 7 – Antonio Palella, composer
- March 27 – Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
- April 10 – Cecilia Elisabeth Würzer, German-Swedish singer
- June 12 – Meinrad Spiess, composer
- July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (born 1704)
- date unknown
- Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
- Newburgh Hamilton, librettist (born 1691)