Overview of the events of 1769 in 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
Methods and theory writings [ edit ]
January 2
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
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 –
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
^ Helminger, Bernhard (2015). Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (7th ed.). Salzburg: Colorama. p. 16. ISBN 978-3-902692-03-0 .