1760 in music
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Premieres
Ballet
The French dancer and choreographer Jean Georges Noverre wrote the Lettres sur la Danse theoretical work et sur les ballets ( Letters on the art of dance ), remains one of the most important writings on the ballet. In the same year he was appointed to the Württemberg court in Stuttgart.
Others
- After the great success of the first part of 1756 the German Baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann composed a second part of his thunder -Ode, TWV 6:3 b.
- Johann Christian Bach converted to Catholicism and is organist at the Cathedral of Milan.
Born
- Adam Pálóczi Horváth, Hungarian writer, folk song collector and composer († 1820)
- Bernard Václav Stiasny, Czech cellist and composer († 1835)