1765 in music explained
Events
Popular music
Opera
Classical music
- 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 (authorship in question)
- Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47 (authorship in question)
- Symphony No. 28
- Cello Concerto No. 1
- Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
- Giovanni Marco Rutini – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.6
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- Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1
Publications
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Berlin), Wq.112
- Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op. 3 (London)
- Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso (6 Trio Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin)
- Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)
- Francesco Guerini – Six Solos (cello sonatas), Op. 9 (London, approximately this year)
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 (died 1846)
- June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer (died 1807)
- June 26 – Franz Xaver Kleinheinz, composer (died 1832)
- September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer (died 1844)
- October 7 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish composer (died 1833)
- October 22 – Daniel Steibelt, pianist and composer (died 1823)
- October 26 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (died 1815)
- November 20 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (died 1814)
- November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer (died 1838)
- December 25 – Joseph Mazzinghi, British composer (died 1844)
- Date unknown – Sofia Liljegren Finnish soprano (died 1795)
Deaths