See also: 1766 in music, other events of 1767, 1768 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach succeeds his godfather, Telemann, as director of church music in Hamburg.
• Dictionnaire de musique by Jean-Jacques Rousseau is published.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family travel to Vienna, stopping at the Abbey of Melk.

Popular music

• James Hook 's first collection of songs for the Vauxhall Gardens .

Opera

• Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck
• Apollo et Hyacinthus by Mozart

Classical music

• Symphony no 35 by Joseph Haydn
• Divertimento for 2 Basset-horns, 2 Horns and Fagot in C by Michael Haydn
• Four Symphonies by Thomas Arne
• Sinfonia in D major by Antonio Sacchini

Births

• February 4 - Johann Franz Volkert , composer
• March 13 - Heinrich Domnich , composer
• March 19 - Leonhard von Call , composer
• April 27 - Andreas Romberg , violinist and composer
• May 4 - Thygaraja or Tyagaraja, composer and singer
• May 24 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel , composer
• May 25 - Ferdinand Franzl and Friedrich Johann Eck , composers
• July 31 - Amelie Julia Candielle , composer
• August 30 - Christian Frederich Gottlieb Schwencke , composer
• September 8 - Karl August von Lichtenstein , composer
• September 17 - Henri-Montan Berton , composer
• September 20 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia , composer
• September 26 - Wenzel Muller , composer
• October 21 - Francesco Ruggi , composer
• December 29 - Aimé Ambroise Simon Leborne , composer

Deaths

• April 7 - Franz Sparry, composer
• June 25 - Georg Philipp Telemann, composer
• August 28 - Johann Schobert, composer
• October 18 - Joseph Paul Ziegler , composer