1763 in music

Events

• July 9 - Mozart family grand tour: The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris
• The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies
• James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in 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, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"

Births

• February 20 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
• March 6 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
• March 18 – Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
• April 2 – Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, composer
• April 7 – Domenico Dragonetti, composer (died 1846)
• May 4 – Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
• May 15 – Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
• June 1 – Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
• June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
• June 24 – Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
• October 12 – John Ross (composer), composer
• November 28 – Matthaus Fischer, composer
• December 23 – John Davy (composer), composer

Deaths

• February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (born 1709)
• February 12 (buried) – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1724)
• June 1 – Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
• July 17 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
• August 14 – Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
• September 14 – Johann Philipp Sack, composer
• December 2 – Carl August Thielo, composer
• unknown date – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
• probable
  • Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
  • Giuseppe Paganelli, composer

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