1763 in music
Events
Popular music
Opera
Classical music
Methods and theory writings
Births
- February 20 â Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
- March 18 â Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
- March 21 â Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, librettist and novelist (died 1825)
- April 2 â Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Italian composer (died 1842)
- April 7 â Domenico Dragonetti, double bass virtuoso and composer (died 1846)
- June 14 â Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
- by June 15 â Franz Danzi, German composer (died 1826)
- June 22 â ÃÂtienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
- December 12 â Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (died 1816)
- Date unknown â Johann Andreas Amon, composer and musician (died 1825)
Deaths
- January 11 â Giovanni Benedetto Platti, Italian composer (born 1697)
- February 7 â Christoph Schaffrath, German composer (born 1709)
- February 12 (buried) â Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1724)
- May 30 â Gustaviana Schröder, Swedish singer (born 1701)
- June 1 â Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
- July 16 â Jacques Hotteterre, French composer (born 1673)
- July 17 â Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
- July 22 â John Dalton, librettist and poet (born 1709)
- August 14 â Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
- September 26 â John Byrom, librettist and poet (born 1692)
- December 2 â Carl August Thielo, composer
- unknown date â Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
- probable â Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
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