1761 in music
# 1761 in music

## 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

* Mme Papavoine – '"Reviens, aimable Thémire" (Paris)
* John Parry – A collection of Welsh, English & Scotch airs with new variations, also four new lessons for the harp or harpsichord... to which are added twelve airs for the guitar (London: John Johnson)

## Opera

* Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette
* Johann Christian Bach – Catone in Utica, W.G 2
* Pasquale Cafaro – Ipermestra (revised version, premiered Dec. 26 in Naples)
* Florian Leopold Gassmann – Catone in Utica
* Baldassare Galuppi
   * Demetrio (revised version, premiered June in Padua)
   * Le Tre Amante Ridicoli (premiered Jan. 18 in Venice)
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le cadi dupé, Wq.29
* Niccolò Jommelli – L'Olimpiade
* Tommaso Traetta – Armida
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Zenobia

## Classical music

* Thomas Arne – Judith (oratorio) (first published; first performed 1744)
* Charles Avison – 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord, 2 Violins and Cello, Op. 8
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
   * La Philippine, H.96
   * La Gabriel, H.97
   * La Caroline, H.98
   * La Complaisante, H.109
   * La Louise, H.114
   * La Xénophon et la Sybille, H.123
   * L'Ernestine, H.124
* 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")
   * Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir")
   * Symphony No.11
* Michael Haydn – Symphony in C major
* Gottfried August Homilius – 32 Praeludia zu geistlichen Liedern vor zwey Claviere und Pedal
* 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
* Simon Simon – Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1
* Ludwig Zoschinger – Concors digitorum discordia seu 4 Partiæ
* Johann Adolph Hasse
   * La Scusa
   * Il Nome

## Methods and theory writings

* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Origine des sciences

## Births

* January 20 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (died 1825)
* January 22 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart (died 1826)
* January 23 – Friedrich von Matthisson, librettist (died 1831)
* 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
* May 3 – August von Kotzebue, librettist (died 1819)
* June 13 – Antonín Vranický or Wranitzky, violinist and composer (died 1820)
* June 15 – Charles Henry Wilton, British musician (died 1832)
* July 20 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer
* September 24 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, composer
* October 9 – Pierre Gaveaux, composer and operatic tenor (died 1825)
* date unknown
   * Antoine Hugot, composer (died 1803)
   * 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)
* October 7 – Johann Pfeiffer, German composer (born 1697)
* date unknown
   * Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
   * Newburgh Hamilton, librettist (born 1691)
