# 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)