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