Year 1762 in Music History

Events in Music

Jul 10 Louis-François Roubiliac's monument to George Frideric Handel is unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London

Oct 5 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.

Jan 20 Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, Belgian French composer, born in Philippeville, Belgium (d. 1842)
Jan 21 Giuseppe Antonio Silvani, composer
Feb 19 Friedrich Franz Hurka, Czech tenor and composer (d. 1805)
Mar 24 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portuguese opera composer (Portogallo)
Mar 25 Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, Italian composer and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana (d. 1846)
Apr 4 Stephen Storace, English composer, born in London (d. 1796)
Apr 13 Charles Frederick Horn, English musician and composer, born in Nordhausen, Germany (d. 1830)
Jun 24 Johann Paul Wessely, Czech composer, born in Frauenberg, Germany (d. 1810)
Jul 4 Marco Santucci, Italian composer, born in Camaiore, Tuscany, Italy (d. 1843)
Jul 20 Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1826)
Aug 10 Santiago Ferrer, composer
Oct 4 Tommaso Sogner, Italian composer, born in Villa S Pedro Pescador, Gerona (d. 1821)
Oct 15 Samuel Adams Holyoke, American composer, born in Boxford, Massachusetts (d. 1820)
Dec 26 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, German clarinetist, composer, and teacher, born in Hiedelberg, Germany (d. 1817)

Jan 13 Leonhard Trautsch, German composer, dies at 68
Feb 11 Johann Tobias Krebs, composer, dies at 71
Feb 12 Laurent Belissen, French composer, dies at 68
Apr 23 Johann Samuel Endler, German composer, dies at 67
May 16 Ernst Christian Hesse, German composer, dies at 86
May 24 Joseph Umstatt, Austrian composer, dies at 51
Jun 19 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer, dies at 60
Jul 16 Jacques Hotteterre, French composer and flautist, dies at 87
Jul 20 Christoph Nichelmann, German composer and harpsichordist, dies at 44
Sep 17 Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 74
Oct 6 Francesco Manfredini, Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and maestro di cappella (St. Phillip's Cathedral, 1727-65), dies at 78