1750 in music

Events

• Farinelli is knighted by King Ferdinand VI of Spain.
• Ten-year-old Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf begins playing with the Viennese Schottenkirche orchestra.
• Bach dictates Chorale preludes BWV 666 and 667 to pupil and son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnikol. These are then added to the manuscript of the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes (BWV 668 is added posthumously).

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)
• January 29 - Sophia Schröder, vocalist at the Kungliga Hovkapellet (born 1712)
• February 22 – Pietro Filippo Scarlatti, organist, choirmaster and composer (born 1679)
• March 6 – Domenico Montagnana, luthier (born 1686)
• 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)
  • John Tufts, music teacher (born 1689)