See also: 1768 in music, other events of 1769, 1770 in music, list of years in music.

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
• 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.

Opera

• Les Etrennes de l'amour by Jean-François Cailhava

Classical music

• Concerto for Trombone in B flat major by Johann Albrechtsberger
• Te Deum in C by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Die Israeliten in der Wüste (oratorio) by Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach
• Quartet for Strings in B flat major, Op. 2 no 3 by Johann Baptist Vanhal

Births

• January 17 - Ole Andreas Lindeman , composer
• March 7 - Josef Alois Ladurner , composer
• March 25 - Salvatore Vigano , composer
• April 11 - Johann Georg Lickl , composer
• April 12 - Giovanni Agostino Perotti , composer
• May 4 - Charles Hague , composer
• June 14 - Dominique Della-Maria , composer
• June 1 - Joseph Elsner, Chopin's future teacher
• July 4 - Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis , composer
• July 23 - Alexey Nikolayevich Titov , composer
• August 14 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon , flautist
• August 16 - Jean Aime Vernier , composer
• August 18 - Alexandre Stievenard , composer
• August 30 - Bonifacio Asioli , composer

Deaths

• March 27 - Josef Antonin Gurecky , composer
• October 9 - Marianus Konigsperger , composer
• unknown date - James Oswald , composer