1762 in music
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Events
- Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl 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.
- The first public concert with a glass harmonica is performed by Marianne Davies.
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
- Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le Roi et le Fermier
Births
- January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died )1842
- January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
- February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
- March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (d. 1784)
- March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
- March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
- April 4 – Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
- 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 (died 1820)
- December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
- unknown date
- Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
- Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)
Deaths
- January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
- February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
- February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
- April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
- May 16 – Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
- June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
- July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
- July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 1699)
- July 20 – Christoph Nichelmann, harpsichordist and composer (born 1717)
- September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
- October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
- November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer (born c.1690)
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