1762 in music
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Events
- Johann Christian BachJohann Christian BachJohann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital...
composing for the King's Theatre in LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
; here he meets Carl Friedrich Abel for the first time. - Michael HaydnMichael HaydnJohann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the classical period, the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.-Life:...
moves to SalzburgSalzburg-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...
, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop. - Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe RameauJean-Philippe Rameau was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the Baroque era. He replaced Jean-Baptiste Lully as the dominant composer of French opera and is also considered the leading French composer for the harpsichord of his time, alongside François...
, Johann StamitzJohann StamitzJan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...
and François-Joseph Gossec. - Antonio SolerAntonio SolerAntonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, usually known as Padre Antonio Soler, known in Catalan as Antoni Soler i Ramos was a Spanish Catalan composer whose works span the late Baroque and early Classical music eras...
publishes his treatise on modulation: Llave de la modulación.
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
- Joseph HaydnJoseph HaydnFranz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...
– Symphony no 9 - Leopold MozartLeopold MozartJohann Georg Leopold Mozart was a German composer, conductor, teacher, and violinist. Mozart is best known today as the father and teacher of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and for his violin textbook Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule.-Childhood and student years:He was born in Augsburg, son of...
– Sacrament Litany in D - Georg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp TelemannGeorg Philipp Telemann was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught in music, he became a composer against his family's wishes. After studying in Magdeburg, Zellerfeld, and Hildesheim, Telemann entered the University of Leipzig to study law, but eventually...
– Christmas Oratorio
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
- Christoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald GluckChristoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...
– Orfeo ed Euridice - Johann Gottlieb NaumannJohann Gottlieb NaumannJohann Gottlieb Naumann was a German composer, conductor, and Kapellmeister.- Life :...
– Il tesoro insidiato
Births
- January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de MomignyJérôme-Joseph de MomignyJérôme-Joseph de Momigny was a Belgian/French composer and music-theorist.He was born in Philippeville, Belgium, and composed music and wrote books, which he printed himself. He was very good at writing poetry and other types of books.His theories about rhythm and musical phrasing were ahead of...
, composer (died )1842 - January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
- February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
- March 13 – Anine FrölichAnine FrölichAnine Marie Magdalene Frölich, was a Danish ballerina, one of the first professional native ballet dancers in Denmark and a prima donna within the Danish ballet in her days...
, ballet dancer (d. 1784) - March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
- March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
- April 4 – Stephen StoraceStephen StoraceStephen Storace was an English composer. His sister was the famous opera singer Nancy Storace. He was born in London in the Parish of St Marylebone to an English mother and Italian father...
, composer (died 1796) - April 13 – Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
- June 24 – Johann Paul Wessely, composer
- July 4 – Marco Santucci, composer
- July 20 – Jakob HaibelJakob HaibelJakob Haibel was an Austrian composer, operatic tenor and choirmaster.-Biography:Around 1789, Haibel joined Emanuel Schikaneder’s company of performers at the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden. While there, he acted in plays and sang in operas and other musical productions...
, composer - August 10 – Santiago Ferrer, composer
- October 15 – Samuel Adams HolyokeSamuel Adams HolyokeSamuel Holyoke, American composer and teacher of vocal and instrumental music, was the son of Rev. Elizur Holyoke and Hannah Peabody. He was born on 15 October 1762 in Boxford, Massachusetts, in Essex County, and died on 7 February 1820, Concord, New Hampshire, in Merrimack County...
, composer (died 1820) - December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
- unknown date
- Giovanna BassiGiovanna BassiGiovanna Bassi was an Italian ballerina who spent the majority of her career in Sweden. She was regarded as the prima donna of the Swedish Ballet during the Gustavian age.- Biography :...
, ballet dancer - Christina FredenheimChristina FredenheimChristina Elisabet Fredenheim was a Swedish artist, singer and noble. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music....
, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)
- Giovanna Bassi
Deaths
- January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
- February 11 – Johann Tobias KrebsJohann Tobias KrebsJohann Tobias Krebs was a German organist and composer.Krebs was born near Weimar, and died in the same area. He is known as a student of Johann Gottfried Walther and Johann Sebastian Bach....
, composer (born 1690) - February 12 – Laurent BelissenLaurent BelissenLaurent Belissen was a French Baroque composer. He was born in Aix-en-Provence and may have been among the last students of Guillaume Poitevin, then maître de musique at the choir school of the Aix Cathedral.By 1722 Belissen settled in Marseille, where he succeeded Antoine Blanchard as maître de...
, composer (born 1693) - April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
- May 16 – Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
- June 19 – Johann Ernst EberlinJohann Ernst EberlinJohann Ernst Eberlin was a German composer and organist whose works bridge the baroque and classical eras. He was a prolific composer, chiefly of church organ and choral music...
, composer (born 1702) - July 16 – Jacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin HotteterreJacques-Martin Hotteterre , also known as Jacques Martin or Jacques Hotteterre, was a French composer and flautist. Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was the most celebrated of a family of wind instrument makers and wind performers.-Biography:Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was born in Paris, the son of Martin...
, composer (born 1674) - July 5 – Jakob AdlungJakob AdlungJakob Adlung, or Adelung, was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, and music theorist.-Biography:...
, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 16991699 in music-Events:*February - Richard Leveridge, Daniel Purcell and Jeremiah Clarke collaborate on the music for an adaptation of Fletcher's The Island Princess....
) - July 20 – Christoph Nichelsmann, klavecinist and composer
- September 17 – Francesco GeminianiFrancesco Geminianithumb|230px|Francesco Geminiani.Francesco Saverio Geminiani was an Italian violinist, composer, and music theorist.-Biography:...
, violinist and composer (born 1687) - October 6 – Francesco ManfrediniFrancesco ManfrediniFrancesco Onofrio Manfredini was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and church musician.He was born at Pistoia to a trombonist. He studied violin with Giuseppe Torelli in Bologna, then a part of the Papal States, a leading figure in the development of the concerto grosso...
, composer (born 1684) - November 25 – Jacques-Christophe NaudotJacques-Christophe NaudotJacques-Christophe Naudot was a French composer, type-setter, and flutist. Little is known of his early life. He was married in 1719. Most of his compositions were published in Paris between 1726 and 1740. The poet Denesle wrote a book called "Syrinx, ou l'origine de la flutte"...
, flautist and composer (born c.1690)