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1762 in music

See also: 1761 in music, other events of 1762, 1763 in music, list of years in music.

Events

• Prince Nikolaus Esterházy employs Joseph Haydn
• Johann Christian Bach composing for the King's Theatre in London

Popular music

Opera

• Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald Gluck

Classical music

• Christmas Oratorio by Georg Philipp Telemann

Births

• April 13 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer
• December 26 - Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer

Deaths

• June 19 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• September 17 - Francesco Geminiani, violinist and composer
• October 6 - Onofrio Manfredini, composer