1769 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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.
• James Hook is appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.

Opera

• Jean-François Cailhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour
• Christoph Willibald von Gluck – Le feste d'Apollo
• André Grétry – Lucile
• Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le déserteur
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La finta semplice
• Josef Mysliveček – Demofoonte

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 Wanhal – Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3

Births

• January 2 – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (died 1833)
• March 7 – Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian composer and music educator (died 1851)
• March 8 – Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer (died 1833)
• March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1821)
• June 5 – Marianne Kirchgessner, German musician (d. 1808)
• April 11 – Johann Georg Lickl, organist and composer (died 1843)
• April 25 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (died 1827)
• June 1 – Józef Elsner, composer and music teacher, Chopin's future teacher (died 1854)
• July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1819)
• July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (died 1827)
• August 14 – Friedrich Dülon, flautist (died 1826)
• September 12 – Reginald Spofforth, organist, conductor and composer (died 1827)
• Date unknown – Charles Hague, composer (died 1821)

Deaths

• January 2 – James Oswald, composer, 57
• September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker, 69
• December 6 – William Felton, composer, 56
• date unknown – Antonio Palomba, Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist, and music educator, 63