1767 in music

Events

 * February 22 – Lovisa Augusti performs at a concert in Gothenburg directed by a musician of the Hovkapellet.
 * September 11 – Eleven-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his father Leopold, his mother Anna Maria, and his older sister Nannerl) left Salzburg for Vienna, travelling via Melk (where young Wolfgang plays the organ). A few weeks later, an outbreak of smallpox in Vienna causes them to flee the city, and they travel to Brno.
 * October 26 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is diagnosed with smallpox. He recovers by November 10, but Nannerl then contracts the disease; she also survives.
 * Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes the first act of an oratorio, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, to be completed by Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser.

Popular music

 * James Hook's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens.

Opera

 * Felice Alessandri – Ezio
 * Michael Arne – Cymon
 * Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alceste
 * Johann Adam Hiller – Lottchen am Hofe
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Apollo et Hyacinthus
 * Josef Mysliveček
 * Il Bellerofonte
 * Farnace , ED.10:D5
 * Giovanni Paisiello – L'idolo cinese, R.1.10
 * Johann Adolph Hasse – Partenope

Classical music

 * Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 Symphonies, Op. 7
 * Thomas Arne – Four Symphonies
 * Luigi Boccherini – Symphony in D major, G.500
 * Joseph Haydn
 * Symphony No.35 in B-flat major, Hob.I:35
 * Symphony no 39
 * 6 Flute Quartets, Op. 5 (Amsterdam: J. J. Hummel)
 * String Trio in E-flat major, Hob.V:4
 * Divertimento in C major, Hob.XIV:3
 * Divertimento in G major, Hob.XVI:11 (attribution in contest)
 * Divertimento in A major, Hob.XVI:12
 * Michael Haydn – Divertimento for 2 basset-horns, 2 horns and bassoon in C
 * Gabriele Leone – 6 Sonatas for mandolin and basso continuo, Book 1 opus 1
 * Antonio Lolli – 6 Violin Sonatas, Op. 3
 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes, K.35
 * Piano Concerto No.1 in F major, K.37
 * Piano Concerto No.3 in D major, K.40
 * A Berenice, K.70/61c
 * Josef Mysliveček – 6 String Quartets, Op. 2
 * Giuseppe Paolucci – Preces octo vocibus concinendae in oratione quadraginta horarum
 * Antonio Sacchini – Sinfonia in D major
 * William Selby – 10 Voluntarys

Methods and music theory

 * Johann Daniel Berlin – Anleitung zur Tonometrie (Kopenhagen and Leipzig: Friedrich Christian Pelt)
 * Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Der allezeit fertige Polonoisen- und Menuettencomponist (Berlin: George Ludewig Winter), a method for composing by throwing dice
 * Johannes Schmidlin – Deutliche Anleitung zum gründlichen Singen der Psalmen (Zürich: Bürgkli)
 * Granville Sharp – A Short Introduction to Vocal Musick
 * Georg Andreas Sorge – Anleitung zur Fantasie

Births

 * March 17 – Luigi Capotorti, Italian composer (died 1842)
 * March 19 – Leonhard von Call, Austrian composer (died 1815)
 * April 27 – Andreas Romberg, violinist and composer (died 1821)
 * May 4 – Tyagaraja – composer and singer (died 1848)
 * September 17 – Henri Montan Berton, composer, teacher and writer, son of Pierre Montan Berton (died 1844)
 * September 20 – José Maurício Nunes Garcia, composer (died 1830)
 * September 26 – Wenzel Müller, composer (died 1835)
 * November 13 – Bernhard Romberg, cellist and composer (died 1841)
 * December 8 – Fabre d'Olivet, French poet and composer (died 1825)
 * December 10 – Johannes Spech, Hungarian composer (died 1836)
 * December 13 – August Eberhard Müller, German composer (died 1817)
 * date unknown
 * Gottlieb Graupner, musician, composer, educator and publisher (died 1836)
 * Filip Višnjić, poet and guslar player (died 1834)
 * Luigi Zamboni, operatic bass-baritone (died 1837)
 * probable
 * Lewis Lavenu, music seller and publisher (died 1818)

Deaths

 * January 3 – Luca Antonio Predieri, composer (born 1688)
 * April 7 – Franz Sparry, composer (born 1715)
 * June 22 – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713)
 * June 25 – Georg Philipp Telemann, composer (born 1681)
 * July 3 – Matthew Dubourg, violinist, conductor and composer (born 1707)
 * August 28 – Johann Schobert, harpsichordist and composer (b. c. 1720)
 * September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer (born 1739)