1763 in music

Events

January 1 – First performance of William Boyce's "At length, th’imperious Lord of War".
March 24 – Christoph Willibald Gluck leaves Vienna, bound for Bologna where his opera Il trionfo di Clelia is to be premièred.
April 26 – Gluck is awarded a pension of 600 florins by Empress Maria Theresa.
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.
James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London.
St Cecilia's Hall is opened by Edinburgh Musical Society as the first purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, the second in Britain.

Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Flute Concertos, WK 46–51
Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – Applausus musicus
Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 1
François Joseph Gossec – 6 Symphonies, Op. 6
Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 12 and 13
Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
Johann Joachim Quantz – Horn Concerto in E-flat major, QV 5:Anh.14
Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 9
Georg Philipp Telemann – ''Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille''

Johann Franz Peter Deysinger – Gründlicher Unterricht die Orgel und das Clavier wohl schlagen zu lernen
Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger – Getreuer Unterricht zum Singen mit Manieren, und die Violin zu spielen
Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Musik überhaupt, und zur Singkunst besonders
Cristiano Miller – ''Porta Armonica''