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Overview of the events of 1763 in music
Overview of the events of 1763 in music
Events
Popular music
Opera
Classical music
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)
Notes