1760 in music

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.
• John Garth publishes his Op. 1 cello concertos (written over the previous decade), the first time such compositions have been published in Britain.^[2]
• 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, German composer (died 1802)
• January 15 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
• January 19 – Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (died 1822)
• January 30 – Franz Xaver Partsch, Bohemian composer (died 1822)
• March 2 – Charlotta Cederström, born Christina Charlotta Mörner af Morlanda, Swedish patron of the arts (died 1832)
• March 27 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (died 1832)
• April 12 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (died 1797)
• May 10 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
• May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (died 1800)
• June 14 – Cándido José Ruano, Spanish composer (died 1803)
• September 21 – Gaetano Valeri, Paduan organist and composer (died 1822)
• September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian-born composer (died 1842)
• October 1 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron of the arts and composer (died 1844)
• November 9 – Henri-Philippe Gérard, Liègeois composer
• December 2 – Joseph Graetz, German composer (died 1826)

Deaths

• January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (born 1697)
• February 14 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (born 1690)
• February 22 – Anna Magdalena Bach, German singer, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
• March 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)
• March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733)
• April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer (born 1696)
• May – Girolamo Abos, Italian composer (born 1715)
• August 8 – Henry Needler, English music transcriber (born 1685)
• November 5 – Pierre Février, French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)

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