1765 in music

List of years in music (table)
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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

• Samuel Arnold
  • Daphne and Amintor
  • The Summer's Tale
• Georg Benda – Xindo riconnosciuto
• Christoph Willibald Gluck – Alexandre; Semiramis
• Josef Mysliveček – Il Bellerofonte
• Antonio Sacchini – Creso

Classical music

• Joseph Haydn
  • Symphony No. 28,
  • Cello Concerto No. 1
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 1

Births

• February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
• June 13 – Anton Eberl, composer (died 1807)
• September 18 – Oliver Holden, composer (died 1844)
• 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)
• 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 1731)
• March 20 – Paolo Antonio Rolli, librettist (born 1637)
• 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)