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.

  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
• *Farnace , ED.10:D5
• Giovanni Paisiello – L'idolo cinese, R.1.10

  Classical music

• 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

  Methods and music theory

• 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

  Births

• 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

  Deaths

• January 3 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer
• April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer
• June 22 – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer
• June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
• July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer
• August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer
• September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer