1762 in music

Events

• Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London; here he meets Carl 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

Classical music

• Johann Albrechtsberger – Passione Domini
• Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 9
• Leopold Mozart – Sacrament Litany in D
• Georg Philipp Telemann – Christmas Oratorio

Opera

• Thomas Arne – Artaxerxes
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice
• Johann Gottlieb Naumann – Il tesoro insidiato

Births

• January 20 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny, composer (died )1842
• January 21 – Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
• February 19 – Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
• March 13 – Anine Frölich, ballet dancer (d. 1784)
• March 24 – Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer
• March 25 – Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
• April 4 – Stephen Storace, composer (died 1796)
• 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 (died 1820)
• December 26 – Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer
• unknown date
  • Giovanna Bassi, ballet dancer
  • Christina Fredenheim, singer and member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (died 1841)

Deaths

• January 13 – Leonhard Trautsch, composer
• February 11 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
• February 12 – Laurent Belissen, composer (born 1693)
• April 23 – Johann Samuel Endler, composer
• May 16 – Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
• June 19 – Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer (born 1702)
• July 16 – Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, composer (born 1674)
• July 5 – Jakob Adlung, organist, instrument maker, music theorist and historian (born 1699)
• July 20 – Christoph Nichelsmann, klavecinist and composer
• September 17 – Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer (born 1687)
• October 6 – Francesco Manfredini, composer (born 1684)
• November 25 – Jacques-Christophe Naudot, flautist and composer (born c.1690)