1769 in music
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See also: 1768 in music, other events of 1769, 1770 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
- Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
- Mozart hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
- Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
- Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
Opera
Classical music
- Concerto for Trombone in B flat major by Johann Albrechtsberger
- Te Deum in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio) by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
- Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3 by Johann Baptist Vanhal
Births
- January 17 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
- March 7 - Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
- March 25 - Salvatore Vigano, composer
- April 11 - Johann Georg Lickl, composer
- April 12 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti, composer
- May 4 - Charles Hague, composer
- June 14 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
- June 1 - Joseph Elsner, Chopin's future teacher
- July 4 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, composer
- July 23 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, composer
- August 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist
- August 16 - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
- August 18 - Alexandre Stievenard, composer
- August 30 - Bonifacio Asioli, composer
Deaths
- March 27 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
- October 9 - Marianus Konigsperger, composer
- unknown date - James Oswald, composer