1761 in music
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See also: 1760 in music, other events of 1761, 1762 in music, list of years in music.
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Events
- Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.
- Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.
Popular music
- None listed
Opera
- Catone in Utica - Florian Leopold Gassmann
- Le Tre Amante Ridicoli - Baldassare Galuppi
Classical music
- Minuet for Harpsichord by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Judith (oratorio) by Thomas Arne
- Don Juan (ballet) by Christoph Willibald Gluck
- Symphony no 8 ("Le Soir") by Joseph Haydn
- Symphony in C major by Michael Haydn
Births
- January 20 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
- February 22 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg and Jacob Kimball, composers
- April 20 - Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
- June 13 - Antonin Vranicky or Wranitzky, composer
- July 20 - Joseph Lefebvre, composer
- September 4 - Friedrich Ludwig Emilius Kunzen, composer
- September 12 - Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer
- September 14 = Pavel Lambert Masek, composer
- October 15 - Peter Gronland, composer
- October 22 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer
- November 1 - Antonin Josef Alois Volanek, composer
- November 19 - Joseph Supries, composer
- November 29 - Fridolin Weber, composer
Deaths
- January 3 - Willem de Fesch, violinist and composer
- February 15 - Carlo Cecere, composer
- March 7 - Antonio Palella, composer
- March 27 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
- June 12 - Meinrad Spiess, composer
- unknown date - Johann Ladislaus Dussek, composer