1767 in music

Overview of the events of 1767 in music

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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.

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

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

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)

^ "Praktisk Veckotidning för Kvinnan och Hemmet" (PDF). October 9, 1891. N:r 41 (199). Archived (PDF) from the original on November 16, 2018.
^ Halliwell, Ruth (1998) The Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Page 120