Events in Music
- Feb 2 Thomas Arne's opera "Artaxerxes" premieres in London
- Jul 10 Louis-François Roubiliac's monument to George Frideric Handel is unveiled at Westminster Abbey in London, England [1]
- Oct 5 Opera "Orfeo Ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck is first produced in Vienna in front of Empress Maria Theresa.
Musicians Born in 1762
- 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 Giuseppe Pollini, Italian composer and pupil of Mozart, born in Ljubljana (d. 1846)
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Musicians Who Died in 1762
- Jan 13 Leonhard Trautsch, German composer, dies at 68
- Feb 11 Johann Tobias Krebs, German organist and 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
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