1760 in music

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Joseph Haydn marries, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel, by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
William Boyce's Eight Symphonies are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.

January 10 - Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer (died 1802)
January 15 - Jean François Lesueur, composer (died 1837)
January 19 - Melchor Lopez Jimenez, composer
January 30 - Franz Xaver Partsch, composer
March 27 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
April 12 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer
May 10 - Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle, composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
June 14 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
September 21 - Gaetano Valeri, composer
September 14 - Luigi Cherubini, composer (died 1842)
October 1 - William Thomas Beckford, composer and author (died 1844)
November 9 - Henri-Philippe Gerard, composer
December 2 - Joseph Graetz, composer

January 18 - Claudio Casciolini, composer
February 14 - Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
February 22 - Anna Magdalena Bach, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
March 10 - Christoph Graupner, composer (born 1683)
March 14 - Anton Filtz, composer
date unknown - Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (born 1696)