1762 in music

See also: 1761 in music, other events of 1762, 1763 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Prince Nikolaus Esterházy employs Joseph Haydn.
• Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Karl Friedrich Abel for the first time.
• Michael Haydn moves to Salzburg, to become Konzertmeister to the Archbishop.
• Death of Le Riche de La Pouplinière, patron of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Johann Stamitz and François-Joseph Gossec.
• Antonio Soler publishes his treatise on modulation: Llave de la modulación.

Popular music

Opera

• Artaxerxes - Thomas Arne
• Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• Passione Domini by Johann Albrechtsberger
• Symphony no 9 by Joseph Haydn
• Sacrament Litany in D by Leopold Mozart
• Christmas Oratorio by Georg Philipp Telemann

Births

• January 20 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny , composer
• January 21 - Giuseppe Antonio Silvani , composer
• February 19 - Friedrich Franz Hurka , composer
• March 24 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca , Portugal, opera composer
• March 25 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini , composer
• April 4 - Stephen Storace , composer
• April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn , composer
• June 24 - Johann Paul Wessely , composer
• July 4 - Marco Santucci , composer
• July 20 - Jakob Haibel , composer
• August 10 - Santiago Ferrer , composer
• October 15 - Samuel Adams Holyoke , composer
• December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch , composer

Deaths

• January 13 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
• February 11 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
• February 12 - Laurent Belissen, composer
• April 23 - Johann Samuel Endler , composer
• May 16 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse , composer
• June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• July 16 - Jacques Hotteterre , composer
• July 20 - Christoph Nichelsmann , klavecinist and composer
• September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer
• October 6 - Onofrio Manfredini , composer