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Events

  • January 1 – Première of William Boyce's "When rival nations great in arms", at St James's Palace, London.
  • January 14 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, while visiting Mannheim, meets local composer Georg Joseph Vogler.
  • March 8 – Friedrich August Kanne, composer and music critic(d. 1833)
  • April 6 – Joseph Funk, composer and music teacher (d. 1862)
  • May 8 – Johann Gansbacher, composer (d. 1844)
  • May 28 – Friedrich Westenholz, composer
  • July 10 – Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer and royal kapellmeister (d. 1858)
  • July 29 – Carl Borromaus Neuner
  • September 3 – Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer
  • November 14 – Johann Nepomuk Hummel, composer

Deaths

  • February 15 – Johann Gottlieb Görner, organist and composer (b. 1697)
  • March 5 – Thomas Arne, composer, best known for "Rule Britannia" (b. 1710)
  • May 8 – Lorenz Christoph Mizler, physician and music writer (b. 1711)
  • July 2 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, writer and composer (b. 1712)
  • July 3 – Anna Maria Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1720; typhoid)