1767 in music
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[edit] Events
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach succeeds his godfather, Telemann, as director of church music in Hamburg.
- Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family travel to Vienna, stopping at the Abbey of Melk.
[edit] Popular music
- James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.
[edit] Opera
- Christoph Willibald Gluck - Alceste
- Johann Hiller - Lottchen am Hofe
- Mozart - Apollo et Hyacinthus
[edit] Classical music
- Symphony no 35 by Joseph Haydn
- Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C by Michael Haydn
- Four Symphonies by Thomas Arne
- Sinfonia in D major by Antonio Sacchini
[edit] Births
- February 4 - Johann Franz Volkert, composer
- March 13 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
- March 19 - Leonhard von Call, composer (died 1815)
- April 27 - Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
- May 4 - Tyāgarāja or Tyagaraja, composer and singer (died 1848)
- May 24 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer (died 1831)
- May 25 - Ferdinand Franzl and Friedrich Johann Eck, composers
- July 31 - Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
- August 30 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
- September 8 - Karl August von Lichtenstein, composer (died 1845)
- September 17 - Henri-Montan Berton, composer
- September 20 - José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
- September 26 - Wenzel Muller, composer
- October 21 - Francesco Ruggi, composer (died 1845)
- December 29 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne, composer (died 1866)
[edit] Deaths
- April 7 - Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
- June 25 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
- August 28 - Johann Schobert, composer
- October 18 - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer (born 1722)
