1763 in music

List of years in music (table)
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Events

• January 1 - First performance of William Boyce's "At length, th’imperious Lord of War".
• March 24 - Christoph Willibald Gluck leaves Vienna, bound for Bologna where his opera Il trionfo di Clelia is to be premièred.
• April 26 - Gluck is awarded a pension of 600 gulden by Empress Maria Theresa.
• May 14 - Nuovo Teatro Pubblico in Bologna opens with the première of Gluck's Il trionfo di Clelia; it is the first major opera house to be constructed with public funds and owned by the municipality.
• May 26 - In Paris, François-Joseph Gossec goes to court to retrieve property from the estate of his late patron Alexandre Le Riche de La Poupelinière.
• July 9 - Mozart family grand tour: The family of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sets out on a European tour, ending this year in Paris.
• James Hook becomes musical director of Marylebone Gardens in London.

The Mozart family on tour: Leopold, Wolfgang, and Nannerl. Watercolor by Carmontelle, ca. 1763

Popular music

• none listed

Opera

• Pietro Guglielmi – Tito Manlio
• Joseph Haydn – Acide
• Niccolò Jommelli - Didone abbandonata (third version)
• Vincenzo Manfredini – Carlo Magno

Classical music

• Johann Georg Albrechtsberger - Applausus musicus (cantata)
• Joseph Haydn – Symphonies nos. 12 and 13
• Michael Haydn – Symphony in G major "Divertimento"; Symphony in B-flat major, Perger 51 "La Confidenza"
• Georg Philipp Telemann - Gott, man lobet dich in der Stille (cantata)

Births

• February 20 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer (died 1850)
• March 18 – Marie Christine Björn, ballerina
• April 7 – Domenico Dragonetti, composer (died 1846)
• May 15 – Franz Danzi, composer (died 1826)
• June 14 – Johann Simon Mayr, composer (died 1845)
• June 22 – Étienne Méhul, composer (died 1817)

Deaths

• February 7 – Christoph Schaffrath, composer (born 1709)
• February 12 (buried) – Gottfried Heinrich Bach, keyboardist son of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1724)
• June 1 – Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
• July 17 – Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
• August 14 – Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
• December 2 – Carl August Thielo, composer
• unknown date – Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer (born 1708)
• probable - Nicola Logroscino, composer (born 1698)