1760 in music

Events

November 26 - Joseph Haydn marries Maria Anna Keller,^[1] but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel, by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
William Boyce's Eight Symphonies are published by John Walsh (Handel's publisher), having been composed over the previous 21 years as either odes to vocal or stage works or as overtures.
Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.
John Garth publishes his Op. 1 cello concertos (written over the previous decade), the first time such compositions have been published in Britain.^[2]
Johann Baptist Wanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

January 10 – Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer (died 1802)
January 19 – Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (died 1822)
January 30 – Franz Xaver Partsch, Bohemian composer (died 1822)
February 12 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, composer (died 1812)
February 15 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
March 2 – Charlotta Cederström, born Christina Charlotta Mörner af Morlanda, Swedish patron of the arts (died 1832)
March 27 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (died 1832)
April 12 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (died 1797)
May 10 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (died 1800)
June 14 – Cándido José Ruano, Spanish composer (died 1803)
September 21 – Gaetano Valeri, Paduan organist and composer (died 1822)
September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian-born composer (died 1842)
October 1 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron of the arts and composer (died 1844)
November 9 – Henri-Philippe Gérard, Liègeois composer
December 2 – Joseph Graetz, German composer (died 1826)

January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (born 1697)
February 14 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (born 1690)
February 22 – Anna Magdalena Bach, German singer, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733)
April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer (born 1696)
May – Girolamo Abos, Italian composer (born 1715)
May 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)
August 8 – Henry Needler, English music transcriber (born 1685)
November 5 – Pierre Février, French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)

↑ Haydn Festspiele.
↑ Fleming, Simon D. I. (September 2013). "John Garth: The Life of a Durham Musician". Durham County Local History Society Journal. 78: 5–18.

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