# 1769 in music
## Events

* Luigi Boccherini goes to Madrid as the court chamber music composer to the Infante Don Luis.
* Wenzel Pichl becomes musical director for Count Ludwig Hartig in Prague
* Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
* Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
* James Hook is appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.
* December – 13-year-old Mozart embarks on a tour of Italy with his father, beginning in Verona. In Rome he hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.

## Opera

* Jean-François Cailhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour
* Christoph Willibald von Gluck – Le feste d'Apollo
* André Grétry
** Lucile
** Le tableau parlant
* Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny – Le déserteur
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – La finta semplice
* Josef Mysliveček – Demofoonte
* Giovanni Paisiello
** L’arabo cortese, R.1.22
** Don Chisciotte della Mancia, R.1.21
* Niccolò Piccinni – Lo sposo burlato

## Classical music

* Carl Friedrich Abel – 6 String Quartets, Op. 8
* Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Alto Trombone and Orchestra in B-flat major
* Charles Avison – Six Concertos in Seven Parts, for Four Violins, One Alto Viola, a Violoncello, and a Thorough Bass for the Harpsichord, Op. 10 (London: R. Bremner)
* Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
** Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio), H.775
** Harpsichord Concerto in E-flat major, H.469
* Luigi Boccherini
** 6 Violin Sonatas, G. 25–30
** 6 String Quartets, G. 165–170
* João de Sousa Carvalho – L'Amore Industrioso
* François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
* Joseph Haydn
** String Quartets, Op. 9
** Violin Concerto in G major, Hob. VIIa:4
** Piano Trio in F major, Hob.XV:2
* Ignaz Holzbauer – 3 Symphonies, Op. 4
* Johann Philipp Kirnberger – Vermischte Musikalien (Berlin: Georg Ludewig Winter)
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
** Cassation in D major, K. 100/62a
** Te Deum in C
* Pasquale Pericoli – 6 Cello Sonatas
* Johann Heinrich Rolle – Der Tod Abels (oratorio)
* Johann Baptist Wanhal
** Symphony in A minor, Bryan a2
** Quartet for Strings in B-flat major, Op. 2, No. 3
* Johann Adolph Hasse
** L'Armonica
** La Gelosia

## Methods and theory writings

* François-Joseph Lécuyer – Principes de l'art du chant

## Births

* January 2
** Thomas Haigh, arranger and musician (died 1808)
** Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator and writer (died 1833)
* January 9 – William Robert Spencer, librettist and poet (died 1834)
* February 12 – Friedrich Rochlitz, music editor and writer (died 1842)
* February 13 – Ivan Krylov, librettist and writer (died 1844)
* February 17 – Johannes Baptista von Albertini, librettist and botanist (died 1831)
* March 7 – Josef Alois Ladurner, Austrian composer and music educator (died 1851)
* March 8 – Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer (died 1833)
* March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1821)
* March 28 – Schack von Staffeldt, librettist and poet (died 1826)
* April 11 – Johann Georg Lickl, organist and composer (died 1843)
* April 25 – Charles Borremans, violinist and conductor (died 1827)
* June 1 – Józef Elsner, composer and music teacher, Chopin's future teacher (died 1854)
* June 5 – Marianne Kirchgessner, German musician (d. 1808)
* June 14 – Domenico Della-Maria Italian and French composer (died 1800)
* July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1819)
* July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (died 1827)
* July 29 – Louis-Benoît Picard, librettist and writer (died 1769)
* August 14
** Richard Barry, composer and English rake (died 1793)
** Friedrich Dülon, flautist (died 1826)
* August 30 – Bonifazio Asioli, Italian composer (died 1832)
* September 8 – Marie-Martin Marcel Marin, composer (died c. 1850)
* September 12 – Reginald Spofforth, organist, conductor and composer (died 1827)
* November 12 – Amelia Opie, librettist and author
* December 26 – Ernst Moritz Arndt, librettist and antisemitic author (died 1860)
* Date unknown –
** Jean-Jacques Grasset, composer and violinist (died 1839)
** Charles Hague, composer (died 1821)
** Daniil Kashin, Russian composer (Died 1841)

## Deaths

* January 2 – James Oswald, composer, 57
* February 21 – William Falconer, librettist and writer (born 1732)
* April 3 – Gerhard Tersteegen, librettist and theologian (born 1697)
* June 7 – Antoine-Alexandre-Henri Poinsinet, librettist, drowned (born 1735)
* August 17 – Vasily Trediakovsky, librettist and poet
* September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker, 69
* December 6 – William Felton, composer, 56
* December 13 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, librettist and poet (born 1715)
* date unknown – Antonio Palomba, Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist and music educator, 63