1763 in music
# 1763 in music

## Events

* January 1 – First performance of William Boyce's "At length, th’imperious Lord of War".
* March 24 – Christoph Willibald Gluck leaves Vienna, bound for Bologna where his opera Il trionfo di Clelia is to be premièred.
* April 26 – Gluck is awarded a pension of 600 florins by Empress Maria Theresa.
* May 14 – Nuovo Teatro Pubblico in Bologna opens with the première of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia; it is the first major opera house to be constructed with public funds and owned by the municipality.
* May 26 – In Paris, François-Joseph Gossec goes to court to retrieve property from the estate of his late patron Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière.
* July 9 – Mozart family grand tour: The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris.
* James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London.
* St Cecilia's Hall is opened by Edinburgh Musical Society as the first purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, the second in Britain.

## Popular music

* none listed

## Opera

* Johann Christian Bach - Orione, ossia Diana vendicata (premiered February 19 in London)
* Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
* Joseph Haydn – Acide
* Niccolò Jommelli – Didone abbandonata (third version)
* Vincenzo Manfredini – Carlo Magno
* Niccolò Piccinni – Le donne vendicate
* Tommaso Traetta – Ifigenia in Tauride
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Siroe, re di Persia

## Classical music

* Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Flute Concertos, WK 46–51
* Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – Applausus musicus (cantata)
* Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 1
* François Joseph Gossec – 6 Symphonies, Op. 6
* Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 12 and 13
* Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
* Johann Joachim Quantz – Horn Concerto in E-flat major, QV 5:Anh.14
* Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 9
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (cantata)

## Methods and theory writings

* Johann Franz Peter Deysinger – Gründlicher Unterricht die Orgel und das Clavier wohl schlagen zu lernen
* Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger – Getreuer Unterricht zum Singen mit Manieren, und die Violin zu spielen
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Musik überhaupt, und zur Singkunst besonders
* Cristiano Miller – Porta Armonica

## Births

* February 20 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
* March 18 – Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
* March 21 – Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, librettist and novelist (died 1825)
* April 2 – Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Italian composer (died 1842)
* April 7 – Domenico Dragonetti, double bass virtuoso and composer (died 1846)
* May 15 – Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
* June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
* by June 15 – Franz Danzi, German composer (died 1826)
* June 22 – Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
* December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (died 1816)
* Date unknown – Johann Andreas Amon, composer and musician (died 1825)

## Deaths

* January 11 – Giovanni Benedetto Platti, Italian composer (born 1697)
* February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (born 1709)
* February 12 (buried) – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1724)
* February 17 – Christoph Schaffrath, German composer (born 1709)
* May 30 – Gustaviana Schröder, Swedish singer (born 1701)
* June 1 – Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
* July 16 – Jacques Hotteterre, French composer (born 1673)
* July 17 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
* July 22 – John Dalton, librettist and poet (born 1709)
* August 14 – Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
* September 26 – John Byrom, librettist and poet (born 1692)
* December 2 – Carl August Thielo, composer
* unknown date – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
* probable – Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
