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Events

  • Composer Christoph Graupner loses his sight.
  • Publication of Giuseppe Tartini's treatise Trattato di musica secondo la vera scienza dell'armonia.
  • Giovanni Paisiello goes to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studies under Francesco Durante.

Classical music

  • Joseph Anton Xaver Auffmann – Triplex concentus organicus, seu III. concerti organici à octo instrumentis (3 organ concertos), Op. 1 (Augsburg)
  • Michael Festing – Violin Sonatas (published posthumously)<!--New Grove lists no publications for this composer from 1754. Are these reprints of Op. 1 (1730), Op. 2 (1731), Op. 4 (1736), Op. 7 (1747), Op. 8 (c.1750), or some combination of them?-->
  • François-Joseph Gossec – Symphony No. 1
  • John Jones – 8 Setts of Lessons for harpsichord (London)
  • Pietro Locatelli – La foresta incantata (ballet)
  • Pietro Domenico Paradisi – 12 Harpsichord Sonatas
  • Joan Baptista Pla and Josep Pla – 6 Trio Sonatas
  • Nicola Porpora
  • 6 duetti latini per la Passione di Gesù Cristo
  • 12 Violin Sonatas, Op. 12
  • John Stanley – Ten Voluntarys for organ or harpsichord, Op. 7 (London)

Opera

  • Vincenzo Legrenzio Ciampi – Didone
  • Nicola Conforto – Ezio
  • Baldassare Galuppi – Il filosofo di campagna
  • Christoph Willibald Gluck – Le Cinesi, Wq.18
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Artemisia
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau
  • Anacréon, RCT 30
  • La Naissance d'Osiris, RCT 48

Methods and theory writings

  • Dom Philippe-Joseph Caffiaux – Histoire de la musique depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’en 1754
  • Michel Corrette – Prototipes contenant des leçons d’accompagnement
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg – Historisch-Kritische Beyträge zur Aufnahme der Musik
  • Johann Mattheson – Plus Ultra
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Observations sur notre instinct pour la musique, et sur son principe
  • Giuseppe Tartini – Trattato di musica

Births

  • March 15 – Silvestro Palma, opera composer (died 1834)
  • May 2 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer of opera and ballet (died 1806)
  • May 12 – Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer and music publisher (died 1812)
  • June 21 – Caroline Louise von Klencke, librettist and poet (died 1802)
  • July 15 – Jacob French, singing master and composer (died 1817)
  • July 18 – Joseph Siegmund Bachmann, composer and organist (died 1825)
  • August 28 – Peter Winter, opera composer (died 1825)
  • September – Elizabeth Ann Linley, singer (died 1792)
  • December 9 – Étienne Ozi, bassoonist and composer (died 1813)
  • December 20 – Joseph Schubert, violinist and composer (died 1837)
  • date unknown
  • Hans Gram, organist and composer (died 1804)
  • Michel Yost, composer and clarinetist (died 1786)

Deaths

  • May 16 – Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer and Kapellmeister (born 1677)
  • June 22 – Nicolas Siret, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1663)
  • October 6 – Adam Falckenhagen, lutenist and composer (born 1697)
  • probable
  • Mlle Guédon de Presles, singer, composer and actress (date of birth unknown)
  • Seedo, German theatre composer working in Britain (born c.1700)