1762 in music
# 1762 in music

## Events

* 6-year-old Mozart and his older sister Nannerl perform before Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria, in Munich and the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.
* Johann Christian Bach begins composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time. He will spend the remaining 20 years of his life in the city.
* Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
* Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.
* The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies.

## Classical music

* Carl Friedrich Abel – Six Overtures in 8 Parts, Op. 4 (London)
* Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
   * L'Aly Rupalich, H.95
   * Harpsichord Concerto in C minor, H.448
   * Sonatina in D major, H.449
   * Solo für die Harfe H.563 Wq.139
* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Trio in B-flat major, F.50
* Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3
* Michel Corrette – 6 Symphonies en Quatuor sur les Noëls
* Francesco Geminiani – The Second Collection of Pieces for the Harpsichord (London, arrangements by the composer from Opp.1, 2, 4, 5, 7, and treatises on the violin and the guitar)
* Joseph Haydn
   * Horn Concerto No.1 in D major, Hob.VIId:3
   * Baryton Trio in G major, Hob.XI:116
   * Symphony No. 9 in C major, Hob.I:9
* Louis Antoine Lefebvre – Andromède (secular cantata)
* Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
   * Minuet in F for Piano, K. 2
   * Allegro in B♭ for Piano, K. 3
   * Minuet in F for Piano, K. 4
   * Minuet in F for Piano, K. 5
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Christmas Oratorio

## Opera

* Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
* Johann Christian Bach – Alessandro nell'Indie, W.G 3
* Domenico Cimarosa – La Cleopatra
* Baldassare Galuppi – Antigono
* Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
* Johann Adolf Hasse – Il Trionfo di Clelia
* Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le Roi et le Fermier
* Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Il tesoro insidiato
* Niccolò Piccinni – Il Finto Turco
* Giuseppe Sarti – Didone Abbandonata

## Methods and theory writings

* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, Part II
* François Clément – Essai sur la basse fondamentale
* William Riley – Parochial Music Corrected
* Antonio Soler – Llave de la modulación, y antigüedades de la musica (Madrid: Joachin Ibarra)

## Births

* January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died 1842)
* January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
* February 2 – Girolamo Crescentini, composer and castrato (died 1846)
* February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
* March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (d. 1784)
* March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
* March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
* April 4 – Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
* April 13 – Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
* April 26 – Shyama Shastri, composer (died 1827)
* June 24 – Johann Paul Wessely, composer
* July 4 – Marco Santucci, composer
* July 20 – Jakob Haibel, composer
* August 10 – Santiago Ferrer, composer
* October 15 – Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer (died 1820)
* December 25 – Michael Kelly, editor and tenor (died 1826)
* December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
* unknown date
   * Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
   * Michel Dieulafoy, French librettist (died 1823)
   * Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)

## Deaths

* January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
* February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
* February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
* c. March 25 – Johann Christian Schickhardt, German composer (born c. 1682)
* April 2 – Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi, Italian composer (born 1719)
* April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer (born 1694)
* May 16 – Ernst Christian Hesse, composer (born 1676)
* May 24 – Joseph Umstatt, composer (born 1711)
* June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
* July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 1699)
* July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
* July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer (born 1717)
* July 30 – Johann Valentin Görner, German composer (born 1702)
* September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
* October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
* November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer (born c.1690)
