1761 in music

== Events == Francesco Geminiani visits Dublin, where he is robbed of a valuable manuscript. Domenico Cimarosa enters the Conservatorio di Santa Maria di Loreto. Joseph Haydn enters the service of the Esterházy family == Popular music == Mme Papavoine – '"Reviens, aimable Thémire" (Paris) John Parry – A collection of Welsh, English & Scotch airs with new variations, also four new lessons for the harp or harpsichord... to which are added twelve airs for the guitar (London: John Johnson) == Opera == Charles-Guillaume Alexandre – George et Georgette Johann Christian Bach – Catone in Utica, W.G 2 Pasquale Cafaro – Ipermestra (revised version, premiered Dec. 26 in Naples) Florian Leopold Gassmann – Catone in Utica Baldassare Galuppi Demetrio (revised version, premiered June in Padua) Le Tre Amante Ridicoli (premiered Jan. 18 in Venice) Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le cadi dupé, Wq.29 Niccolò Jommelli – L'Olimpiade Tommaso Traetta – Armida Johann Adolf Hasse – Zenobia == Classical music == Thomas Arne – Judith (oratorio) (first published; first performed 1744) Charles Avison – 6 Sonatas for Harpsichord, 2 Violins and Cello, Op. 8 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach La Philippine, H.96 La Gabriel, H.97 La Caroline, H.98 La Complaisante, H.109 La Louise, H.114 La Xénophon et la Sybille, H.123 L'Ernestine, H.124 Christoph Willibald Gluck – Don Juan (ballet) François Joseph Gossec – Sei sinfonie a più stromenti, Op. 5 Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 6 ("Le matin") Symphony No. 7 ("Le midi") Symphony No. 8 ("Le soir") Symphony No.11 Michael Haydn – Symphony in C major Gottfried August Homilius – 32 Praeludia zu geistlichen Liedern vor zwey Claviere und Pedal Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Andante in C major for harpsichord, K. 1a Allegro in C major for harpsichord, K. 1b Allegro in F major for harpsichord, K. 1c Minuet in F major for harpsichord, K. 1d Simon Simon – Pièces de clavecin, Op. 1 Ludwig Zoschinger – Concors digitorum discordia seu 4 Partiæ Johann Adolph Hasse La Scusa Il Nome == Methods and theory writings == Jean-Philippe Rameau – Origine des sciences == Births == January 20 – Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer (died 1825) January 22 – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, biographer of Mozart (died 1826) January 23 – Friedrich von Matthisson, librettist (died 1831) January 26 – Jens Zetlitz, songwriter (died 1821) February 15 – Jacob Kimball, Jr., composer (died 1826) February 20 – Johann Christian Ludwig Abeille, pianist and composer February 22 – Erik Tulindberg, composer (died 1814) April 20 – Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier, composer May 3 – August von Kotzebue, librettist (died 1819) June 13 – Antonín Vranický or Wranitzky, violinist and composer (died 1820) June 15 – Charles Henry Wilton, British musician (died 1832) July 20 – Joseph Lefebvre, composer September 24 – F.L.Æ. Kunzen, composer October 9 – Pierre Gaveaux, composer and operatic tenor (died 1825) date unknown Antoine Hugot, composer (died 1803) John Andrew Stevenson, composer (died 1833) == Deaths == January 3 – Willem de Fesch, violinist and composer (born 1687) January 18 – Francesco Feo, opera composer (born 1691) February 15 – Carlo Cecere, composer (born 1706) March 7 – Antonio Palella, composer March 27 – Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer April 10 – Cecilia Elisabeth Würzer, German-Swedish singer June 12 – Meinrad Spiess, composer July 9 – Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, organist (born 1704) October 7 – Johann Pfeiffer, German composer (born 1697) date unknown Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697) Newburgh Hamilton, librettist (born 1691) == References ==