1763 in music

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See also: 1762 in music, other events of 1763, 1764 in music, list of years in music.

Contents 1 Events 2 Popular music 3 Opera 4 Classical music 5 Births 6 Deaths

Events

• James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London
• The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, visiting Paris and London

Popular music

• None listed

Opera

• Pietro Guglielmi - Tito Manlio
• Joseph Haydn - Acide
• Vincenzo Manfredini - Carlo Magno

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn - Symphonies nos. 12 and 13
• Michael Haydn - Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B flat major, P 51 "La Confidenza"

Births

• February 20 - Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
• March 6 - Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
• April 2 - Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
• April 7 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
• May 4 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
• May 15 - Franz Danzi, composer
• June 1 - Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
• June 14 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
• June 24 - Etienne Méhul, composer
• October 12 - John Ross, composer
• November 28 - Matthaus Fischer, composer
• December 23 - John Davy, composer

Deaths

• June 1 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
• July 17 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
• August 14 - Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
• September 14 - Johann Philipp Sack, composer
• unknown date - Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
• December 2 - Carl August Thielo, composer
• probable - Giuseppe Paganelli, composer