1761 in music

See also: 1760 in music, other events of 1761, 1762 in music, list of years in music.

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