1767 in music

Events

• February 22 - Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.^[1]
• September 11 - 11-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ).^[2] A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
• October 26 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives.
• Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.

Popular music

• James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.

Opera

• Felice Alessandri – Ezio
• Michael Arne - Cymon
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
• Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
• Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte

Classical music

• Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 35
• Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C
• Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major

Births

• April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
• May 4 – Tyagaraja - composer and singer (died 1848)
• September 17 - Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
• September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
• September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
• November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
• December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
• date unknown
  • Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
  • Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
  • Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
• probable – Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)

Deaths

• January 3 - Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
• April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
• June 22 - Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
• June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
• July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
• August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
• September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)

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