1762 in music

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See also: 1761 in music, other events of 1762, 1763 in music, list of years in music.

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

Events

• Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Karl Friedrich Abel for the first time.
• 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.
• Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: Llave de la modulación.

Popular music

Classical music

• Johann Albrechtsberger - Passione Domini
• Joseph Haydn - Symphony no 9
• Leopold Mozart - Sacrament Litany in D
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Christmas Oratorio

Opera

• Thomas Arne - Artaxerxes
• Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
• Johann Gottlieb Naumann - Il tesoro insidiato

Births

• January 20 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer
• January 21 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
• February 19 - Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
• March 24 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
• March 25 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
• April 4 - Stephen Storace, composer
• April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
• 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
• December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer

Deaths

• January 13 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
• February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
• February 12 - Laurent Belissen, composer
• April 23 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer
• May 16 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
• June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• July 16 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer
• July 20 - Christoph Nichelsmann, klavecinist and composer
• September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer
• October 6 - Onofrio Manfredini, composer