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Events

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck is knighted by Pope Benedict XIV
  • Johann Christian Bach settles in Italy.
  • Mme Papavoine – Vous fuyez sans vouloir m'entendre (Paris)

Classical music

  • Johann Friedrich Agricola – 6 Canzonette
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • La Bergius, H.90
  • La Borchward, H.79
  • La Gleim, H.89
  • La Pott, H.80
  • La Prinzette, H.91
  • Anna Bon – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 1
  • Michel Corrette
  • Troisième Livre d’Orgue
  • 6 Organ Concertos, Op. 26
  • Baldassare Galuppi – 6 Harpsichord Sonatas, Op. 1
  • Joseph Haydn – Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in C, Hob. XVIII/1
  • Marianus Königsperger – Præambulum cum fuga octavi toni
  • Julien-Amable Mathieu – 6 Trios, Op. 2
  • Leopold Mozart – Sinfonia di caccia
  • Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli - Ariae pro organo et cembalo
  • Giuseppe Sammartini – 8 Overtures in 7 Parts, Op. 10
  • Elizabeth Turner – A Collection of Songs

Opera

  • Pasquale Cafaro – La disfatta di Dario
  • Baldassare Galuppi – Idomeneo
  • Pierre van Maldere – Le Déguisement pastorale
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Zoroastre
  • Antonio Sacchini – Fra Donato
  • John Christopher Smith – The Tempest

Publications

  • Johann Friedrich Daube – General-Bass in drey Accorden
  • Jacob Wilhelm Lustig – Samenspraaken over muzikaale Beginselen
  • Leopold Mozart – Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ("A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing")
  • Jean-Philippe Rameau – Suite des Erreurs sur la musique dans l'Encyclopédie

Births

  • January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
  • February 9 - Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer (died 1785)
  • March 21 – Augustus Frederic Christopher Kollmann, German composer (died 1829)
  • March 24 – Franziska Lebrun, composer and vocalist (died 1791)
  • May 7 – Thomas Linley the younger, English composer (died 1778)
  • June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-born composer (died 1792)
  • September 8 – Anton Teyber, composer and organist (died 1822)
  • September 27 – Christoffer Christian Karsten, Swedish operatic tenor (died 1827)
  • December 30 – Paul Wranitzky, Moravian-Austrian composer (died 1808)
  • date unknown – Joséphine-Rosalie de Walckiers, Dutch-Austrian composer (died 1836)

Deaths

  • January 25 – Christian Vater, German organ and harpsichord builder (born 1679)
  • April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Bolognese composer (born 1661)
  • April 13 – Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German keyboard virtuoso (born 1727)
  • August 18 – Erdmann Neumeister, German hymnologist (born 1671)
  • September 19 – Josef Antonín Sehling, Bohemian composer (born 1710)
  • date unknown – Riccardo Broschi, Italian-born composer (born c. 1698)

References