1769 in music
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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
 - 14-year-old Mozart hears Allegri's Miserere for the first time, returns home and copies it down note for note.
 - Charles Burney receives an honorary doctorate in music from the University of Oxford.
 - Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini arrives in Venice.
 - James Hook eis appointed composer to Marylebone Gardens.
 
Opera
- Jean-François Cailhava – Les Etrenes de l'amour
 - Christoph Willibald von Gluck - Le feste d'Apollo
 - André Grétry - Lucile
 - Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny - Le déserteur
 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - La finta semplice
 - Josef Mysliveček - Demofoonte
 
Classical music
- Johann Albrechtsberger – Concerto for Trombone in B flat major
 - Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio)
 - François Joseph Gossec – Sei quartetti per flauto e violino o sia per due violini, alto e basso, op. 14
 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Te Deum in C
 - Johann Baptist Wanhal – Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3
 
Births
- March 8 - Katerina Veronika Anna Dusíkova, Bohemian singer, harpist, pianist and composer (died 1833)
 - March 25 – Salvatore Viganò, choreographer, dancer and composer (died 1821)
 - 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)
 - July 4 – Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis, violinist, conductor and composer (died 1819)
 - July 23 – Alexey Nikolayevich Titov, violinist and composer (died 1827)
 - August 14 – Friedrich Dülon, flautist (died 1826)
 - September 12 - Reginald Spofforth, organist, conductor and composer (died 1827)
 - Date unknown – Charles Hague, composer (died 1821)
 
Deaths
- January 2 - James Oswald, composer, 57
 - September – Henri Hemsch, harpsichord maker, 69
 - December 6 - William Felton, composer, 56
 - date unknown - Antonio Palomba, Italian opera librettist, poet, harpsichordist, and music educator, 63
 
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