1767 in music

Events

February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.
September 11 – Eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk. 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.
Joseph Haydn enters his Sturm und Drang period - writing symphonies in minor keys with turbulent expressive content.

Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 7
Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
Luigi Boccherini – Symphony in D major, G.500
Joseph Haydn
*Symphony No.35 in B-flat major, Hob.I:35
*Symphony no 39
*6 Flute Quartets, Op. 5
*String Trio in E-flat major, Hob.V:4
*Divertimento in C major, Hob.XIV:3
*Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:11
*Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:12
Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 basset-horns, 2 horns and bassoon in C
Gabriele Leone – 6 Sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo, Book 1 opus 1
Antonio Lolli – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 3
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
*Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, K.35
*Piano Concerto No.1 in F major, K.37
*Piano Concerto No.3 in D major, K.40
*A Berenice, K.70/61c
Josef Mysliveček – 6 String Quartets, Op. 2
Giuseppe Paolucci – Preces octo vocibus concinendae in oratione quadraginta horarum
Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
William Selby – 10 Voluntarys

Johann Daniel Berlin – Anleitung zur Tonometrie
Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist, a method for composing by throwing dice
Johannes Schmidlin – Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen
Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick
Georg Andreas Sorge – ''Anleitung zur Fantasie''

March 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer
March 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer
April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer
May 4 – Tyagaraja – composer and singer
September 17 – Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton
September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer
September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer
November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer
December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer
December 10 – Johannes Spech, Hungarian composer
December 13 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer
date unknown
*Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher
*Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player
*Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone
probable
*Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher