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