1760 in music
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Events
- November 26 - Joseph Haydn marries Maria Anna Keller,[1] 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.
- Johann Baptist Wanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Popular music
Opera
- Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
- Johann Christian Bach – Artaserse
- Johann Adolph Hasse – Alcide al Bivio
- Vincenzo Manfredini – Semiramide
- Niccolò Piccinni – La buona figliuola
- Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Surprises de l'amour
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – String Quartet in D
- William Boyce – Eight Symphonies
- François Joseph Gossec – Grande Messe des Morts
- Michael Haydn – Concerto for Violin in B flat major
Births
- 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)
- May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, ballerina
- 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
- Christina Charlotta Cederström
Deaths
- January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, composer
- November 12 - Andjelko Topic, genius in music
- February 14 – François Colin 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 Fils, composer (born 1733)
- April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, lutenist and composer (born 1696)
- May – Girolamo Abos, composer (born 1715)
- date unknown
- Pierre Février, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
- Henry Needler, music transcriber (born 1685)