1761 in music

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January / February: The Opera Artaserse by Johann Christian Bach has its world premiere at the Teatro Regio in Turin. He then receives the commission to write for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples two more operas.
February 11: In Stuttgart, the premiere of the opera L' Olimpiade by Niccolò Jommelli to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio is performed.
October 17: In Vienna, the highly acclaimed world premiere of the ballet Don Juan by Christoph Willibald Gluck takes place, to which the dancer and choreographer Gasparo Angiolini has created the choreography.
November 4: The opera Catone in Utica by Johann Christian Bach will be premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.
November 5: The opera Don Quichotte at the wedding of Comacho by Georg Philipp Telemann will be premiered in Hamburg. Telemann has completely reworked the libretto of the young Daniel Schiebeler for his purposes.
December 8: The opera Le cadi Dupe Christoph Willibald Gluck has its world premiere at the Burgtheater in Vienna.

Joseph Haydn is Vice-Kapellmeister to the Esterházy family in the house and composed his three times of the day Symphonies Le matin, Le midi and Le soir.
Leopold Mozart draws an Andante and Allegro on as the " Wolfgangerl Compositiones ," which followed by another Allegro and Menuetto, dated on the 11th & 16th of December.

January 03: Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (* 1687 )
January 16: Antonín Jiránek, Czech composer (c. 1712)
April 03: Christian Ferdinand Abel, German musicians, viola da gamba virtuoso baroque (* 1682)
September 08: Charlotte Elisabeth fog, German poet and hymn writer edification (* 1727)

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