1767 in music
# 1767 in music

## Events

* February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.
* September 11 – Eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ). A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
* October 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives.
* 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.

## Popular music

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

## Opera

* Felice Alessandri – Ezio
* Michael Arne – Cymon
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
* Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
* Josef Mysliveček
   * Il Bellerofonte
   * Farnace , ED.10:D5
* Giovanni Paisiello – L'idolo cinese, R.1.10
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Partenope

## Classical music

* Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 7
* Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
* Luigi Boccherini – Symphony in D major, G.500
* Joseph Haydn
   * Symphony No.35 in B-flat major, Hob.I:35
   * Symphony no 39
   * 6 Flute Quartets, Op. 5 (Amsterdam: J. J. Hummel)
   * String Trio in E-flat major, Hob.V:4
   * Divertimento in C major, Hob.XIV:3
   * Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:11 (attribution in contest)
   * Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:12
* Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 basset-horns, 2 horns and bassoon in C
* Gabriele Leone – 6 Sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo, Book 1 opus 1
* Antonio Lolli – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 3
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   * Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, K.35
   * Piano Concerto No.1 in F major, K.37
   * Piano Concerto No.3 in D major, K.40
   * A Berenice, K.70/61c
* Josef Mysliveček – 6 String Quartets, Op. 2
* Giuseppe Paolucci – Preces octo vocibus concinendae in oratione quadraginta horarum
* Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
* William Selby – 10 Voluntarys

## Methods and music theory

* Johann Daniel Berlin – Anleitung zur Tonometrie (Kopenhagen and Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Pelt)
* Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist (Berlin: George Ludewig Winter), a method for composing by throwing dice
* Johannes Schmidlin – Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen (Zürich: Bürgkli)
* Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick
* Georg Andreas Sorge – Anleitung zur Fantasie

## Births

* March 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (died 1842)
* March 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (died 1815)
* April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
* May 4 – Tyagaraja – composer and singer (died 1848)
* September 17 – Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
* 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)
* December 10 – Johannes Spech, Hungarian composer (died 1836)
* December 13 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (died 1817)
* date unknown
   * Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
   * 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

* January 3 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
* April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
* June 22 – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
* June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
* July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
* August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
* September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)
