title: 1767 in music
text: # 1767 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.
  * September 11 – Eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ). A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
  * October 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives.
  * Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
  * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.
  
  ## Popular music
  
  * James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Felice Alessandri – Ezio
  * Michael Arne – Cymon
  * Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
  * Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
  * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
  * Josef Mysliveček
     * Il Bellerofonte
     * Farnace , ED.10:D5
  * Giovanni Paisiello – L'idolo cinese, R.1.10
  * Johann Adolph Hasse – Partenope
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 7
  * Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
  * Luigi Boccherini – Symphony in D major, G.500
  * Joseph Haydn
     * Symphony No.35 in B-flat major, Hob.I:35
     * Symphony no 39
     * 6 Flute Quartets, Op. 5 (Amsterdam: J. J. Hummel)
     * String Trio in E-flat major, Hob.V:4
     * Divertimento in C major, Hob.XIV:3
     * Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:11 (attribution in contest)
     * Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:12
  * Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 basset-horns, 2 horns and bassoon in C
  * Gabriele Leone – 6 Sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo, Book 1 opus 1
  * Antonio Lolli – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 3
  * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
     * Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, K.35
     * Piano Concerto No.1 in F major, K.37
     * Piano Concerto No.3 in D major, K.40
     * A Berenice, K.70/61c
  * Josef Mysliveček – 6 String Quartets, Op. 2
  * Giuseppe Paolucci – Preces octo vocibus concinendae in oratione quadraginta horarum
  * Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
  * William Selby – 10 Voluntarys
  
  ## Methods and music theory
  
  * Johann Daniel Berlin – Anleitung zur Tonometrie (Kopenhagen and Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Pelt)
  * Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist (Berlin: George Ludewig Winter), a method for composing by throwing dice
  * Johannes Schmidlin – Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen (Zürich: Bürgkli)
  * Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick
  * Georg Andreas Sorge – Anleitung zur Fantasie
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (died 1842)
  * March 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (died 1815)
  * April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
  * May 4 – Tyagaraja – composer and singer (died 1848)
  * September 17 – Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
  * September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
  * September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
  * November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
  * December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
  * December 10 – Johannes Spech, Hungarian composer (died 1836)
  * December 13 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (died 1817)
  * date unknown
     * Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
     * Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
     * Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
  * probable
     * Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 3 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
  * April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
  * June 22 – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
  * June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
  * July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
  * August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
  * September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)
  