# 1760 in music
## Events

* November 26 – Joseph Haydn marries Maria Anna Keller, but he and his wife will live apart for most of their lives.
* John Newton leaves his job for the church, and begins composing hymns.
* Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frideric Handel, by John Mainwaring, is published anonymously.
* John Alcock is forced to resign as organist and choirmaster of Lichfield Cathedral.
* Johann Christian Bach becomes organist of Milan Cathedral.
* John Garth publishes his Op. 1 cello concertos (written over the previous decade), the first time such compositions have been published in Britain.
* Johann Baptist Wanhal is brought to Vienna to receive lessons from Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.

## Opera

* Thomas Arne – Thomas and Sally
* Johann Christian Bach – Artaserse
* Nicola Porpora - "Il trionfo di Camilla"
* Johann Adolph Hasse – Alcide al Bivio
* Vincenzo Manfredini – Semiramide
* Niccolò Piccinni – La buona figliuola
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Les Paladins

## Classical music

* Johann Albrechtsberger – String Quartet in D
* Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
** Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, H.75.5
** Sechs Sonaten für Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, Wq.50 (H. 126, 136–140) (published, Berlin; composed 1758–59)
* William Boyce – Eight Symphonies, op. 2 (published, London: John Walsh; composed over the previous 21 years)
* François Joseph Gossec – Grande Messe des Morts
* Joseph Haydn
** Symphony No.25 in C major, Hob.I:25
** Partita in B-flat major, Hob.XVI:2
** Partita in E major, Hob.XVI:13 (attribution in question)
* Michael Haydn – Concerto for Violin in B-flat major
* Pierre Hugard – La Toilette, suites for the pardessus de viole
* Ignacio de Jerusalem – Clarines sonad (misattributed)
* Franz Xaver Richter
** 6 Harpsichord Trios
** 6 Symphonies, Op. 2
* Christoph Schaffrath – Duetto for Bassoon and Harpsichord in F minor, CSWV F:18
* Georg Philipp Telemann – Lukas-Passion

## Methods and theory writings

* John Alcock, Sr. – The Life of Miss Fanny Brown
* Giorgio Antoniotto – L'arte armonica
* Francesco Geminiani – The Art of Playing the Guitar or Cittra
* John Mainwaring – Memoirs of the Life of the Late George Frederic Handel
* Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Kritische Briefe über die Tonkunst
* Edward Miller – Institutes of Music, or Easy Instructions for the Harpsichord
* Nicolo Pasquali – The Art of Fingering the Harpsichord
* Jean-Philippe Rameau – Code de musique pratique
* Georg Andreas Sorge
** Anleitung zum Generalbass und zur Composition
** Compendium Harmonicum
* William Tans'ur – The Psalm-Singer's Jewel

## Births

* January 10 – Johan Rudolf Zumsteeg, German composer (died 1802)
* January 19 – Melchor Lopez Jimenez, Spanish composer (died 1822)
* January 30 – Franz Xaver Partsch, Bohemian composer (died 1822)
* February 12 – Jan Ladislav Dussek, composer (died 1812)
* February 15 – Jean-François Le Sueur, French composer (died 1837)
* March 2 – Charlotta Cederström, born Christina Charlotta Mörner af Morlanda, Swedish patron of the arts (died 1832)
* March 27 – Ishmail Spicer, American composer (died 1832)
* April 4 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer (died 1797)
* May 10 – Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, French composer of La Marseillaise (died 1836)
* May 29 – Charlotte Slottsberg, Swedish ballerina (died 1800)
* July 11 – François-Benoît Hoffman, librettist and playwright (died 1828)
* June 12 – Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, librettist and novelist (died 1797)
* June 14 – Cándido José Ruano, Spanish composer (died 1803)
* July 12 – Giuseppe Foppa, Italian librettist (died 1845)
* September 12 – Gaetano Valeri, Paduan organist and composer (died 1822)
* September 14 – Luigi Cherubini, Italian-born composer (died 1842)
* September 29 – Maria Hester Park, British composer (died 1813)
* October 1 – William Beckford, English novelist, patron of the arts and composer (died 1844)
* November 9 – Henri-Philippe Gérard, Liègeois composer
* November 14 – Johann Evangelist Brandl, composer (died 1837)
* November 30 – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (d. 1831)
* December 2 – Joseph Graetz, German composer (died 1826)

## Deaths

* January 18 – Claudio Casciolini, Italian composer (born 1697)
* February 14 – François Colin de Blamont, French composer (born 1690)
* February 22 – Anna Magdalena Bach, German singer, second wife and assistant of Johann Sebastian Bach (born 1701)
* March 2 – François Bouvard, French composer (born 1760)
* March 14 – Anton Fils, German composer (born 1733)
* April 12 – Ernst Gottlieb Baron, German lutenist and composer (born 1696)
* April 24 – Michele Mascitti, music editor and violinist (born c. 1664)
* May – Girolamo Abos, Italian composer (born 1715)
* May 10 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (born 1683)
* August 8 – Henry Needler, English music transcriber (born 1685)
* October 24 – Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Italian composer (born 1676)
* November 5 – Pierre Février, French organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1696)
* Date unknown – Roque Ceruti, Italian composer (born c. 1683)