1765 in music

Events

• The Bach-Abel concerts are founded.
• The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra is founded.
• First flamenco school established in Spain.

  Popular music

• James Hook – "I wish you all good night"

  Opera

• Samuel Arnold
• *Daphne and Amintor
• *The Summer's Tale
• Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
• Andrea Bernasconi – Semiramide riconosciuta
• Christoph Willibald Gluck –
• *Alexandre
• *Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33
• *Semiramis
• Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
• Antonio Sacchini
• *La contadina in corte
• *Creso
• Tommaso Traetta – Semiramide

  Classical music

• Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Sonatas, published in 1766 as Six Sonatas, Op. 5
• Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 12 Polonaises, F.12
• Joseph Haydn
• *Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:6
• *Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33
• *Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35
• *Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36
• *Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37
• *String Trio in B-flat major, Hob.V:B1
• *Divertimento in G major, Hob.XIV:13
• *Divertimento in D major, Hob.XVI:4
• *Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:15
• *Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47
• *Symphony No. 28
• *Cello Concerto No. 1
• Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• *"God Is Our Refuge", K.20
• *"Conservati fedele", K.23
• Georg Philipp Telemann
• *Symphonie zur Serenate, TWV Anh.50:1
• *Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1

  Publications

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq.112
• Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op. 3
• Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso, Op. 2
• Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2
• Francesco Guerini – Six Solos, Op. 9

  Methods and theory writings

• Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello
• Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique
• Georg Simon Löhlein – Klavier-Schule
• Giuseppe Paolucci – Arte pratica di contrappunto
• Michael Johann Friedrich Weideburg – Der sich selbst informirende Clavierspieler

  Births

• February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer
• June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer
• September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer
• October 7 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish composer
• October 22 – Daniel Steibelt, pianist and composer
• October 26 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer
• November 20 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer
• November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer
• December 25 – Joseph Mazzinghi, British composer
• Date unknown – Sofia Liljegren Finnish soprano

  Deaths

• January 12 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist
• January 15 – Carlmann Kolb, composer
• January 19 – Johan Agrell, composer
• February 9 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, singer, composer and conductor
• March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist
• December 30 – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer
• date unknown
• *John Hebden, bassoonist, cellist and composer
• *Edward Henry Purcell, organist and music publisher
• probable – Louis-Antoine Dornel, harpsichordist, violinist and composer