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| … 1747 • 1748 • 1749 – 1750 – 1751 • 1752 • 1753 … … 1720s • 1730s • 1740s – 1750s – 1760s • 1770s • 1780s … … 17th century – 18th century – 19th century … |
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Events
- Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
- Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkircheorchestra.
Classical music
- 1750 is commonly used to mark the end of the Baroque period
- Leopold Mozart - Partita for Violin, Cello and Double Bass "Frog"
Opera
- Johann Friedrich Agricola – Il filosofo convinto in amore
- William Boyce - The Roman Father
Births
- January 25 - Johann Gottfried Vierling, organist and composer (died 1813)
- March 23 - Johannes Matthias Sperger, contrabassist and composer (died 1812)
- August 18 – Antonio Salieri, composer (died 1825)
- date unknown
- Mikhail Matinsky, librettist and opera composer (died c. 1820)
- probable
- Antonio Rosetti, composer (died 1792)
- Anton Stamitz, composer (died c.1805)
Deaths
- January 4 - Christoph Schütz, music publisher (born 1689)
- February 22 - Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
- June 2 – Johann Valentin Rathgeber, composer (born 1682)
- July 28 – Johann Sebastian Bach, composer (born 1685)
- September - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, organist, harpsichordist and composer (born 1690)
- October 3 – Georg Matthias Monn, composer (born 1717)
- October 16 – Sylvius Leopold Weiss, lutenist and composer (born 1687)
- November - Giuseppe Sammartini, oboist and composer (born 1695)
- date unknown
- Francesco Goffriller, violin maker (born 1692)
- Domenico Montagnana, luthier (born 1686)
- Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet.
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