1763 in music
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Events
- January 1 - First performance of William Boyce's "At length, th’imperious Lord of War".[1]
- March 24 - Christoph Willibald Gluck leaves Vienna, bound for Bologna where his opera Il trionfo di Clelia is to be premièred.[1]
- April 26 - Gluck is awarded a pension of 600 gulden by Empress Maria Theresa.[1]
- May 14 - Nuovo Teatro Pubblico in Bologna opens with the première of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia; it is the first major opera house to be constructed with public funds and owned by the municipality.
- May 26 - In Paris, François-Joseph Gossec goes to court to retrieve property from the estate of his late patron Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière.
- July 9 - Mozart family grand tour: The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris.[1]
- James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London.
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The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763[2]
Popular music
- none listed
Opera
- Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
- Joseph Haydn – Acide
- Niccolò Jommelli - Didone abbandonata (third version)
- Vincenzo Manfredini – Carlo Magno
Classical music
- Johann Georg Albrechtsberger - Applausus musicus (cantata)[1]
- Joseph Haydn – Symphonies nos. 12 and 13
- Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
- Georg Philipp Telemann - Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (cantata)[1]
Births
- February 20 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
- March 18 – Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
- April 7 – Domenico Dragonetti, composer (died 1846)
- May 15 – Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
- June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
- June 22 – Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
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
- December 2 – Carl August Thielo, composer
- unknown date – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
- probable - Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Music and History. Accessed 24 April 2013
- ↑ Solomon 1995, p. 44