1767 in music explained

Events

• February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.^[1]
• 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 (where young Wolfgang plays the organ).^[2] 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
• Johann Adolph Hasse – Partenope

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 (Amsterdam: J. J. Hummel)
  • String Trio in E-flat major, Hob.V:4
  • Divertimento in C major, Hob.XIV:3
  • Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:11 (attribution in contest)
  • 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 (Kopenhagen and Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Pelt)
• Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist (Berlin: George Ludewig Winter), a method for composing by throwing dice
• Johannes Schmidlin – Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen (Zürich: Bürgkli)
• Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick
• Georg Andreas Sorge – Anleitung zur Fantasie

Births

• March 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (died 1842)
• March 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (died 1815)
• April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
• May 4 – Tyagaraja – composer and singer (died 1848)
• September 17 – Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
• September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
• September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
• November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
• December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
• December 10 – Johannes Spech, Hungarian composer (died 1836)
• December 13 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (died 1817)
• date unknown
  • Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
  • Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
  • Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
• probable
  • Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)

Deaths

• January 3 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
• April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
• June 22 – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
• June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
• July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
• August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
• September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Praktisk Veckotidning för Kvinnan och Hemmet . N:r 41 (199) . https://web.archive.org/web/20181116001306/http://www.ub.gu.se/fasta/laban/erez/kvinnohistoriska/tidskrifter/idun/1891/pdf/1891_41.pdf . November 16, 2018 . October 9, 1891 . live.
2. Halliwell, Ruth (1998) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Page 120