title: 1763 in music
text: # 1763 in music
  
  ## Events
  
  * January 1 – First performance of William Boyce's "At length, th’imperious Lord of War".
  * March 24 – Christoph Willibald Gluck leaves Vienna, bound for Bologna where his opera Il trionfo di Clelia is to be premièred.
  * April 26 – Gluck is awarded a pension of 600 florins by Empress Maria Theresa.
  * May 14 – Nuovo Teatro Pubblico in Bologna opens with the première of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia; it is the first major opera house to be constructed with public funds and owned by the municipality.
  * May 26 – In Paris, François-Joseph Gossec goes to court to retrieve property from the estate of his late patron Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière.
  * July 9 – Mozart family grand tour: The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris.
  * James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London.
  * St Cecilia's Hall is opened by Edinburgh Musical Society as the first purpose-built concert hall in Scotland, the second in Britain.
  
  ## Popular music
  
  * none listed
  
  ## Opera
  
  * Johann Christian Bach - Orione, ossia Diana vendicata (premiered February 19 in London)
  * Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
  * Joseph Haydn – Acide
  * Niccolò Jommelli – Didone abbandonata (third version)
  * Vincenzo Manfredini – Carlo Magno
  * Niccolò Piccinni – Le donne vendicate
  * Tommaso Traetta – Ifigenia in Tauride
  * Johann Adolph Hasse – Siroe, re di Persia
  
  ## Classical music
  
  * Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Flute Concertos, WK 46–51
  * Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – Applausus musicus (cantata)
  * Johann Christian Bach – 6 Keyboard Concertos, Op. 1
  * François Joseph Gossec – 6 Symphonies, Op. 6
  * Joseph Haydn – Symphonies Nos. 12 and 13
  * Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
  * Johann Joachim Quantz – Horn Concerto in E-flat major, QV 5:Anh.14
  * Giuseppe Tartini – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 9
  * Georg Philipp Telemann – Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (cantata)
  
  ## Methods and theory writings
  
  * Johann Franz Peter Deysinger – Gründlicher Unterricht die Orgel und das Clavier wohl schlagen zu lernen
  * Ignaz Franz Xaver Kürzinger – Getreuer Unterricht zum Singen mit Manieren, und die Violin zu spielen
  * Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Anleitung zur Musik überhaupt, und zur Singkunst besonders
  * Cristiano Miller – Porta Armonica
  
  ## Births
  
  * February 20 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
  * March 18 – Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
  * March 21 – Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, librettist and novelist (died 1825)
  * April 2 – Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, Italian composer (died 1842)
  * April 7 – Domenico Dragonetti, double bass virtuoso and composer (died 1846)
  * May 15 – Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
  * June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
  * by June 15 – Franz Danzi, German composer (died 1826)
  * June 22 – Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)
  * December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, singer and artist (died 1816)
  * Date unknown – Johann Andreas Amon, composer and musician (died 1825)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 11 – Giovanni Benedetto Platti, Italian composer (born 1697)
  * February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (born 1709)
  * February 12 (buried) – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1724)
  * February 17 – Christoph Schaffrath, German composer (born 1709)
  * May 30 – Gustaviana Schröder, Swedish singer (born 1701)
  * June 1 – Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
  * July 16 – Jacques Hotteterre, French composer (born 1673)
  * July 17 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
  * July 22 – John Dalton, librettist and poet (born 1709)
  * August 14 – Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
  * September 26 – John Byrom, librettist and poet (born 1692)
  * December 2 – Carl August Thielo, composer
  * unknown date – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
  * probable – Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)
  