1761 in music
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Events
- Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript.
- Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto.
- Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family
Popular music
- Mme Papavoine â '"Reviens, aimable Thémire" (Paris)
- John Parry â A collection of Welsh, English & Scotch airs with new variations, also four new lessons for the harp or harpsichord... to which are added twelve airs for the guitar (London: John Johnson)
Opera
- Charles-Guillaume Alexandre â George et Georgette
- Johann Christian Bach â Catone in Utica, W.G 2
- Pasquale Cafaro â Ipermestra (revised version, premiered Dec. 26 in Naples)
- Florian Leopold Gassmann â Catone in Utica
- Baldassare Galuppi
- Christoph Willibald Gluck â Le cadi dupé, Wq.29
- Niccolò Jommelli â L'Olimpiade
- Tommaso Traetta â Armida
- Johann Adolf Hasse â Zenobia
Classical music
- Thomas Arne â Judith (oratorio) (first published; first performed 1744)[1]
- Charles Avison â 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord, 2 Violins and Cello, Op. 8
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- La Philippine, H.96
- La Gabriel, H.97
- La Caroline, H.98
- La Complaisante, H.109
- La Louise, H.114
- La Xénophon et la Sybille, H.123
- L'Ernestine, H.124
- Christoph Willibald Gluck â Don Juan (ballet)
- François Joseph Gossec â Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, Op. 5
- Joseph Haydn
- Michael Haydn â Symphony in C major
- Gottfried August Homilius â 32 Praeludia zu geistlichen Liedern vor zwey Claviere und Pedal
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart â
- Andante in C major for harpsichord, K. 1a
- Allegro in C major for harpsichord, K. 1b
- Allegro in F major for harpsichord, K. 1c
- Minuet in F major for harpsichord, K. 1d
- Simon Simon â Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1
- Ludwig Zoschinger â Concors digitorum discordia seu 4 Partiæ
- Johann Adolph Hasse
- La Scusa
- Il Nome
Methods and theory writings
- Jean-Philippe Rameau â Origine des sciences
Births
- January 20 â Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (died 1825)
- January 22 â Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart (died 1826)
- January 23 â Friedrich von Matthisson, librettist (died 1831)
- January 26 â Jens Zetlitz, songwriter (died 1821)
- February 15 â Jacob Kimball, Jr., composer (died 1826)
- February 20 â Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, pianist and composer
- February 22 â Erik Tulindberg, composer (died 1814)
- April 20 â Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer
- May 3 â August von Kotzebue, librettist (died 1819)
- June 13 â AntonÃn Vranický or Wranitzky, violinist and composer (died 1820)
- June 15 â Charles Henry Wilton, British musician (died 1832)
- July 20 â Joseph Lefebvre, composer
- September 24 â F.L.Ã. Kunzen, composer
- October 9 â Pierre Gaveaux, composer and operatic tenor (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Antoine Hugot, composer (died 1803)
- John Andrew Stevenson, composer (died 1833)
Deaths
- January 3 â Willem de Fesch, violinist and composer (born 1687)
- January 18 â Francesco Feo, opera composer (born 1691)
- February 15 â Carlo Cecere, composer (born 1706)
- March 7 â Antonio Palella, composer
- March 27 â Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
- April 10 â Cecilia Elisabeth Würzer, German-Swedish singer
- June 12 â Meinrad Spiess, composer
- July 9 â Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (born 1704)
- October 7 â Johann Pfeiffer, German composer (born 1697)
- date unknown
- Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
- Newburgh Hamilton, librettist (born 1691)