1765 in music

Events

 * The Bach-Abel concerts are founded.
 * The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ("Harmonien") is founded.
 * First flamenco school established in Spain.

Popular music

 * James Hook – "I wish you all good night" (song)

Opera

 * Johann Adolph Hasse - "Romolo ed Ersilla"
 * Johann Friedrich Agricola – Achille in Sciro, premiered Sept. 16 in Berlin
 * Samuel Arnold
 * Daphne and Amintor
 * The Summer's Tale
 * Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
 * Andrea Bernasconi – Semiramide riconosciuta
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck –
 * Alexandre
 * Il Parnaso confuso, Wq.33
 * Semiramis
 * Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
 * Antonio Sacchini
 * La contadina in corte
 * Creso
 * Tommaso Traetta – Semiramide

Classical music

 * Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 12 Polonaises, F.12
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Divertimento in E-flat major, Hob.II:6
 * Divertimento in F major, Hob.II:33
 * Divertimento in D major, Hob.II:35
 * Divertimento in G major, Hob.II:36
 * Divertimento in E major, Hob.II:37
 * String Trio in B-flat major, Hob.V:B1
 * Divertimento in G major, Hob.XIV:13
 * Divertimento in D major, Hob.XVI:4
 * Keyboard Sonata in C major, Hob.XVI:15 (authorship in question)
 * Keyboard Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:47 (authorship in question)
 * Symphony No. 28
 * Cello Concerto No. 1
 * Johann Ludwig Krebs – Sonata in A minor, Krebs-WV 838
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * "God Is Our Refuge", K.20
 * "Conservati fedele", K.23
 * Giovanni Marco Rutini – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op.6
 * Georg Philipp Telemann
 * Symphonie zur Serenate, TWV Anh.50:1
 * Grillen-Symphonie, TWV 50:1

Publications

 * Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Clavierstücke verschiedener Art (Berlin), Wq.112
 * Johann Christian Bach – Six Simphonies, Op. 3 (London)
 * Placidus von Camerloher – Sei sonate a tre, due violini e basso (6 Trio Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin)
 * Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)
 * Francesco Guerini – Six Solos (cello sonatas), Op. 9 (London, approximately this year)

Methods and theory writings

 * Robert Crome – The Compleat Tutor for the Violoncello
 * Pierre Simon Fournier – Traité historique et critique sur l’origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l’impression de la musique
 * Georg Simon Löhlein – Klavier-Schule
 * Giuseppe Paolucci – Arte pratica di contrappunto
 * Michael Johann Friedrich Weideburg – Der sich selbst informirende Clavierspieler

Births

 * February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
 * June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer (died 1807)
 * June 26 – Franz Xaver Kleinheinz, composer (died 1832)
 * September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer (died 1844)
 * October 7 – Michał Kleofas Ogiński, Polish composer (died 1833)
 * October 22 – Daniel Steibelt, pianist and composer (died 1823)
 * October 26 – Jakub Jan Ryba, composer (died 1815)
 * November 20 – Friedrich Heinrich Himmel, composer (died 1814)
 * November 23 – Thomas Attwood, composer (died 1838)
 * December 25 – Joseph Mazzinghi, British composer (died 1844)
 * Date unknown – Sofia Liljegren Finnish soprano (died 1795)

Deaths

 * January 12 – Johann Melchior Molter, German composer and violinist (born 1696)
 * January 15 – Carlmann Kolb, composer (born 1703)
 * January 19 – Johan Agrell, composer (born 1701)
 * February 9 – Elisabetta de Gambarini, singer, composer and conductor (born 1730)
 * March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (born 1687)
 * December 30 – Conrad Friedrich Hurlebusch, organist and composer (born c. 1691)
 * date unknown
 * John Hebden, bassoonist, cellist and composer (born 1712)
 * Edward Henry Purcell, organist and music publisher
 * probable – Louis-Antoine Dornel, harpsichordist, violinist and composer (born c.1685)